In this wide-ranging volume, eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the growing body of work on the ‘Long Civil War’ and break new ground. They cover a variety of related subjects, including antebellum missionary activity and colonialism in Africa, the home front, the experiences of disabled veterans in the US Army Veteran Reserve Corps, and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal struggles with the war’s legacy amid the growing civil rights movement. The contributors offer fresh interpretations and challenging analyses of topics such as ritualistic suicide among former Confederates after the war and whitewashing in Walt Disney Studios’ historical Cold War–era movies. Featuring many leading figures in the field, The Long Civil War meaningfully expands the focus of mid-nineteenth-century history as it was understood by previous generations of historians.
Table of Content
1. Introduction
2. West African Missions, Colonies, and Imperial Anxieties in the United States, 1834-1865
3. The Abolition Lobby: Its Development, Successes, and Disintegration, 1836-1845
4. Officers of the US Army Veteran Reserve Corps: Motivation and Expectations of Veteran Soldiers during the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Paul A. Cimbala
5. ‘Bent on Suicide’: The Political Rhetoric of Suicide in the Civil War-Era South
6. Warrior Turned Reformer: Emory Upton and the Modernization of the American Army
7. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and World War I: Finding ‘pax plantation’ at Camp Gordon, Georgia
8. The Man and The Martyr: Abraham Lincoln in African American History and Memory
9. ‘If at First You Don’t Secede’: War and Remembrance
10. Dwight Eisenhower and Civil War Legacies
11. Playing with History: Walt Disney’s Historical Films, 1946-1966
12. Acknowledgments
13. Contributors
Index
About the author
Raymond Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several acclaimed and prizewinning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America, and Arthur Ashe, A Life. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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