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Informationen zum Autor RAY B. BROWNE is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, which he founded. He is editor of the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures . He is the author and editor of over 70 books and has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association since their beginnings. LAWRENCE A. KREISER JR. is an independent scholar. Klappentext Letting ordinary people speak for themselves, this book uses primary documents to highlight daily life among Americans-Union and Confederate, black and white, soldier and civilian-during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Focusing on routines as basic as going to school and cooking and cleaning, Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life explores the lives of ordinary Americans during one of the nation's most tumultuous eras. The book emphasizes the ordinary rather than the momentous to help students achieve a true understanding of mid-19th-century American culture and society.Recognizing that there is no better way to learn history than to allow those who lived it to speak for themselves, the authors utilize primary documents to depict various aspects of daily life, including politics, the military, economics, domestic life, material culture, religion, intellectual life, and leisure. Each of the documents is augmented by an introduction and aftermath, as well as lists of topics to consider and questions to ask. Zusammenfassung Letting ordinary people speak for themselves! this book uses primary documents to highlight daily life among Americans-Union and Confederate! black and white! soldier and civilian-during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Civil War America and Reconstruction How to Evaluate Primary Documents Chronology of Events DOCUMENTS OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA Politics 1. Senator Stephen Douglas's Support of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854) 2. Reaction to Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in the Staunton (Virginia) Spectator (1861) 3. A "Disgrace to the American People": The Illinois Legislature Denounces the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 4. A Reaction to the Gettysburg Address in Harper's Weekly (1863) 5. "Election Day . the Most Momentous Since the Days of Washington": Diary Entries by Union Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Lyman (1864) 6. The 14th Constitutional Amendment and the 15th Constitutional Amendment (1868, 1870) 7. Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address (1877) Military Life 8. "To Assist . in the Defense of Our Common Country": David Pierson to William H. Pierson (April 22, 1861) 9. Hardtack and Coffee, or the Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) 10. "Valiantly Did the Heroic Descendants of Africa Move Forward .": Letter from Captain Elias D. Strunke (1863) 11. "I Will Commence Writing You a Letter": Description of Life in Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863) 12. "The Balls Make a Very Loud Singing Noise When They Pass Near You .": An Experience of Battle (1861) 13. "Our Dear Boys-Now as Ever-I Commit Them into Thy Hands": A Confederate Woman Supports the War Effort (1862) 14. "We Now Are in Indian Country .": Life Near a Reservation (1867-1868) Economics 15. "The Soil Is All the Best Quality .": Results of the Homestead Act (1872) 16. The Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad: An Eyewitness Observance (1869) 17. "The Chinese Must Go": Article in The Illustrated Wasp (1878) 18. "A Farmer's Life": Article in The Atlantic Monthly (1877) 19. "The Old Chisholm Trail": A Cowboy Ballad (1870s) 20. "Regulations to Be Observed by All Persons Employed in the Lewiston Mills" (1867) Domestic Life 21. "This...
