Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

Julie L. Holcomb (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1855-9 (ISBN)

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This book will deploy a wide range of material culture objects, artwork, and landscapes to the tell the story of the American Civil War. The objects, will document the war’s history from its beginnings in the fierce debates over slavery through its legacy, including recent debates about Confederate monuments.

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war ¾ its causes and its consequences ¾ continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today.

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations.

Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020.

Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.

Julie Holcomb is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Museum Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Holcomb received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon; her Master of Library and Information Science, with a specialization in Archives and Records Management from the University of Texas at Austin (; and her PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of Moral Commerce: Quakers and The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy and the editor of Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry. In addition to her books, Holcomb has published widely in a variety of academic and popular venues.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Object Timeline

Civil War Timeline

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part One: Causes

For Sale – “A Day I’ll Never Forgit”
Good Credit, Good Prices, & Good Profits: The Slave Labor Economy
Buy for the Sake of the Slave!: Quakers, Antislavery, and the Boycott of Slave Labor
Strike a Blow for Freedom: Black Activism and the Abolitionist Movement
“I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice”: The Antebellum Antislavery Movement
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner: Challenges to the Expansion of Slavery in the West

Part Two: Politics

“A Man Kidnapped!”: Northern Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
“Honest Old Abe is Bound to Win”: The Election of 1860
The Union is Dissolved!: The Secession Crisis
“Strike for Your Altars and Your Fires!”: The Fight for the Border States
Securing Alliances: The Confederate Government and the Five Tribes
John Bull Makes a Choice: Cotton and International Politics

Part Three: Battlefield

A Sacred Emblem of the Battle of Glorieta Pass
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: The Indian Wars in the Civil War Era
A Terrible Slaughter: The Battle of Gettysburg
“We Will Prove Ourselves Men”: The United States Colored Troops
Caring for the Wounded: Nurses in the Civil War
“His names was Bidwell Pedley”: Caring for the Dead during the Civil War

Part Four: Officers

“Let them surrender and go home”: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House
Lee’s Right Army: Stonewall Jackson
“The Beast”: Benjamin Butler and the Occupation of New Orleans
The “Father of Black Nationalism”: Martin Delany

Part Five: Soldiers

“Those d—d black hatted fellows”: The Iron Brigade of the West
Lee’s Shock Troops: Hood’s Texas Brigade
“What is to be done with the prisoners?”: Union and Confederate Prisons
Days of Infamy and Disgrace: The New York City Draft Riots
The Evolution of the Union Cavalry

Part Six: Home Front

“The Last Thought of a Dying Father”: The Northern Home Front
“Bread or Blood!”: The Southern Home Front during the Civil War
“Pounding on the Rock”: African American Families in the Civil War North
“I Wanted to Be My Own General”: Guerilla Warfare and the Homefront
On Her Own: The Texas Home Front during the Civil War

Part Seven: Symbols

“The Speechless Agony of the Fettered Slave”: The Symbolism of the Antislavery Movement
“The Little Woman Who Made the Great War”: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“If you want my flag, you’ll have to take it over my dead body”: National and Regimental Flags during the Civil War
Setting the Beat for War: Popular Music in the North and the South

Part Eight: Technology

The Great Locomotive Chaise: Railroads and Military Strategy
A Scientific Foundation for Medical Care: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
“A curious marine monster”: Ironclads and Riverine Warfare
The Silk Dress Balloon: Aeronautics in the Civil War

Part Nine: Emancipation

Freedom’s Fort: The Beginnings of Emancipation
An Abolition War: The Emancipation Proclamation
Troubled Refuge: Contraband Camps
A New Birth of Freedom: Thirteenth Amendment
Help Me Find My People: Reconstructing Black Families

Part Ten: Legacy

“I Won’t Be Reconstructed”: Southerners and Confederate Defeat
Memorializing the Dead: Race, Heritage, and the Lost Cause
Reconciliation and Reunion: Blue and Gray Reunions in the Post-Civil War Era
The Black Confederate Story: Civil War History and Memory in the Age of the Internet
Stone Mountain: Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century

Afterword

Index

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 241 mm
Gewicht	848 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-5381-1855-6 / 1538118556
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-1855-9 / 9781538118559
Zustand	Neuware