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The struggle for equality : essays on sectional conflict, the Civil War, and the long reconstruction / edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jennifer L. Weber.

Other author/creatorBurton, Orville Vernon.
Other author/creatorPodair, Jerald E., 1953-
Other author/creatorWeber, Jennifer L., 1962-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
Descriptionxiii, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books History 2011 Subject Collection
Subject(s)
Contents The radicalism of the abolitionists revisited : the case of the Society of Friends / Ryan P. Jordan -- Abolitionism as logical conclusion : General James S. Wadsworth as a case study in anti-Southern sentiment and the radicalizing experience of the Civil War / Judith A. Hunter -- Our man in Paris : John Meredith Read Jr. and the discontents of American republicanism, 1860-1896 / Philip M. Katz -- A dynamic for success and failure : discipline, cause, and comrades in the relationship between officers and enlisted men in Lee's army / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- All the president's men : the politicization of Union soldiers and how they saved Abraham Lincoln / Jennifer L. Weber -- Abraham Lincoln's last "stump speech" : September 3, 1863 / Ronald C. White Jr -- "The power of making me miserable" : Abraham Lincoln and race / Bruce Dain -- "Public women" and sexual politics during the American Civil War / Catherine Clinton -- Wendell Phillips and the idea of industrial democracy in early postbellum America / Brian Greenberg.
Contents The strange career of Jim Longstreet : history and contingency in the Civil War era / James K. Hogue -- The grasshopper plague, 1874-1878, and social welfare : the postbellum prospects for relief, recovery, and reform / Thomas C. Cox -- The wrongful court-martial and posthumous presidential pardon of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, USMA 1877 / Tom Carhart -- For god and lodge : black fraternal orders and the evolution of African American religion in the postbellum South / John M. Giggie -- Peddling the lost cause : a southern white woman at work / Michele Gillespie -- Race and municipal reform in the progressive era : the adoption of at-large elections in Norfolk, Virginia, 1914-1918 / Peyton McCrary -- School of a soldier : World War II as a transformative experience in the life of Dr. Joseph T. Taylor / Monroe H. Little -- An awful choice : Bayard Rustin and New York City's civil rights wars, 1968 / Jerald Podair.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011009245
ISBN9780813931739 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813931738 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813931777 (e-book)
ISBN0813931770 (e-book)

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