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Informationen zum Autor Lyde Cullen Sizer is Associate Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Political Work of American Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (2000). Jim Cullen teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He is the author of The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past (1995) and The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003), among other books. He is also the creator of a website, American History for Cynical Beginners : www.ecfs.org/projects/jcullen. Klappentext There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology. Lincoln's Gettysburg address is here and so too is a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary sources present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. The book encourages its readers to "listen in" and make sense of the conversations of historians-and to join them by interpreting material related to their arguments. Each section begins with a preface that pulls together secondary and primary sources, and introductions to the primary sources Web that will offer further avenues for exploration. Primary documents such as poetry, short stories, editorials, newspaper articles, speeches, illustrations, and political cartoons, as well as more personal documents like letters and diary entries, round out each section. Bibliographies and a timeline are also included, making this an authoritative, easy-to-use primer on the best research and writings about the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Zusammenfassung From Lincoln's Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan! this title contains a selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War. It reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War. It also includes introductions and study questions to aid understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction: The American Civil War in the Twenty-First Century. A Civil War Chronology. PART I: THE IMPENDING CRISIS. Essays (with Headnotes and Questions):. 1 "A House Divided" by Bruce Catton (1960). 2 "The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War" by William W. Freehling (1997). Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):. 3 John Calhoun, speech on the Compromise of 1850. 4 Chapter 1, "In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity" from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harried Beecher Stowe (1851). 5 Louisa S. McCord, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853). 6 Escaped slave advertisements from The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853). PART II: JUSTIFYING THE WAR. Essay (with Headnote and Questions):. 7 "The Spirit of '61," by George Fredrickson (1965). Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):. 8 Alexander Stephens, "The Confederate Cornerstone" (1861). 9 Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, Diary entry, (1860). 10 The North Carolina Standard, "Disunion for Existing Causes," editorial, (1860). 11 Alexander Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (1868). III. THE BATTLE FRONT. Essay (with Headnote and Questions):. 12 'Dangled Over Hell': The Trauma of the Civil War," by Eric T. Dean, Jr. (1997). Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):. 13 Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895). 14 Wilbur Fisk, letter from the Peninsula Campaign, (1862). 15 "J.C.R.," "The Battle of Fredricksburg," Charleston Daily Courier (1863). 16 Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, a.k.a. Edwin R. Wakeman, Letter from the Red River (1864). PART IV: THE HOM...
