Reconfiguring the Union: Civil War Transformations

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Reconfiguring the Unions: A Long History of Civil War Transformations....Pages 1-20
Lincoln and Emancipation: The Lessons of the Letter to Horace Greeley....Pages 21-40
Conservatism, Transformation, and the War for the Union....Pages 41-57
Freedpeople, Politics, and the State in Civil War America....Pages 59-76
The Military Significance of the 1864 Presidential Election....Pages 77-99
“In Union There Is Strength”: City-Building and Nation-Building in Civil War–Era Philadelphia, 1844–1865....Pages 101-123
“There Will Be Blood”: The Civil War and the Birth of the Oil Industry....Pages 125-141
“Faugh a Ballagh!” (Clear the Way): The Irish and the American Civil War....Pages 143-161
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: A Propaganda Tool for the Enemy?....Pages 163-179
Ordeal of the Union: Allan Nevins, the Civil War Centennial, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s....Pages 181-200
Glory, Glory : Hollywood’s Consensus Memory of the American Civil War....Pages 201-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-228