Claiming the Union - Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'We have fought the first skirmish': loyalty and citizenship; 2. Men's Union: fixing the standard of a Union man; 3. Women's Union: reckoning with the female Union man; 4. Former slaves' Union: bestowing charity or rewarding loyalty; 5. The colored Union: being all things to all men; Conclusion.

About the author

Susanna Michele Lee is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century American history, especially the Civil War and Reconstruction. She received her BA in History and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and her MA and PhD in History from the University of Virginia. Lee has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Wake Forest University. Active in the burgeoning field of digital humanities, she has served as the project manager for the digital archives The Valley of the Shadow, The State of History, and North Carolina in the Civil War Era. Lee has received fellowships from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and the Virginia Historical Society. She has also participated in a National Endowment in the Humanities summer seminar on the ethnohistory of Indians in the American South at the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Summary

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian - disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed to its citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Michele Lee, Susanna Michele (North Carolina State Univers Lee, Lee Susanna Michele
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781316649770
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64977-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of the Americas, US South, US South: South Atlantic States