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  • First Lady of the Confederacy

    Varina Davis’s Civil War

    by Joan E. Cashin ...
    When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • First Lady of the Confederacy

    Varina Davis’s Civil War

    by Joan E. Cashin ...
    When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • War Stuff

    The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

    by Joan E. Cashin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material resources necessary to wage war. This war 'stuff' included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well as such material resources as food, timber, and housing. At first, civilians were willing to help Confederate or Union forces, but the war took ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • War Matters

    Material Culture in the Civil War Era

    Edited by Joan E. Cashin ...
    Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, during, and after the war, Americans from all walks of life created, used, revered, exploited, discarded, mocked, and destroyed objects for countless reasons. These objects had symbolic significance for millions of people. The essays in this volume ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The War Was You and Me

    Civilians in the American Civil War

    by William Blair, ANTHONY E. KAYE, Robert C. Kenzer, Joan E. Cashin ...
    Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Weirding the War

    Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

    by Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel E. Sutherland, Diane Sommerville, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, LeeAnn Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson0, Michael DeGruccio1, Michael Fellman2, Paul Anderson3, Peter S. Carmichael4, Rodney J. Steward5, Steven E. Nash6, Stephen Berry8, Andrew Slap9, Amy Murrell Taylor0 ...
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    “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Clotel, or the President's Daughter

    by William Wells Brown, Joan E. Cashin ...
    Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Brown, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was well known for his abolitionist activities. In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity as well as the absurdities and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens

    Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era

    by Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas J. Balcerski, Douglas R. Egerton, Matthew Pinsker, William P. MacKinnon, Frank Towers, Joan Cashin, John David Smith, Michael Green, James Oakes, Bruce C. Levine, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Household War

    How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Stephen Berry, Joan Cashin, Angela Esco Elder, Lorien Foote, Andrew K. Frank, Brian Craig Miller, Julie Mujic, Brooks D. Simpson, Margaret Storey, Jonathan W. White, Victoria E. Bynum ...
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    Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how ... Read more

    $120.89 CAD

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  • Troubled Refuge

    Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

    by Chandra Manning ...
    From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half ... Read more

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  • Living Hell

    The Dark Side of the Civil War

    by Michael C. C. Adams ...
    A senior military historian presents an unflinching account of the human costs of the Civil War.Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Robert E. Lee and Me

    A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

    by Ty Seidule ...
    "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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