The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long ReconstructionOrville Vernon Burton, Jerald E. Podair, Jennifer L. Weber This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson's work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as the animating force of his lifetime of scholarship. With a chronological span from the 1830s to the 1960s, the contributions bear witness to the continuing vigor of the argument over equality. Contributors |
Contents
Sectional Conflict | 6 |
The Case of the Society | 17 |
General James S Wadsworth as | 29 |
John Meredith Read Jr and the Discontents | 41 |
Discipline Cause and Comrades | 59 |
The Politicization of Union Soldiers and | 76 |
September 3 1863 | 91 |
Abraham Lincoln and Race | 100 |
History and Contingency in | 153 |
The Postbellum | 172 |
Lieutenant Henry O Flipper USMA 1877 | 183 |
American Religion in the Postbellum South | 198 |
A Southern White Woman at Work | 219 |
The Adoption | 238 |
Life of Dr Joseph T Taylor | 254 |
Wars 1968 | 276 |
Public Women and Sexual Politics during the American Civil War | 119 |
Postbellum America | 137 |
Catherine Clinton | 293 |
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