Full Description
In The American War: A History of the Civil War Era, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, the great defining moment in U.S. history, as well as its aftermath and enduring memory, in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls ‘easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date.’ By investigating this crucial period of U.S. history through the eyes of civilians, celebrated leaders, and citizen soldiers alike, students and curious readers alike can gain a profound understanding of the dramatic political and military events and personalities as well as social and economic processes that caused the Civil War, enabled the Union to prevail over the Confederacy, and forever transformed the United States.
New to the Third Edition
To keep up with current scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, new or revised material has been incorporated throughout The American War on the following topics:
- Chapter 3: Guerrilla Warfare
- Chapter 8: The Struggle for Women’s Voting Rights
- Chapter 9: Did the War End in the Spring of 1865?
- Chapter 11: Was Reconstruction a Lost Moment?
- Chapter 12: Acknowledging the War’s Dark Side
- Further Reading: More than two dozen additional titles that combine accessibility and sound scholarship, including thirteen in a new section devoted to photographs and art.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Chapter 1: Expansion, Nation, and Perception: The Road to Secession
Chapter 2: Two Republics Gird for War
Chapter 3: War in Earnest: Shifting Military Tides in 1862
Chapter 4: A War of Citizen-Soldiers
Chapter 5: The Process of Emancipation
Chapter 6: Heavy Blows But No Decision: The Winter of 1862 to the Spring of 1864
Chapter 7: A Struggle Between Nations
Chapter 8: Women and the War
Chapter 9: Pressing through to Union Victory: The Spring of 1864 through the Spring of 1865
Chapter 10: Reconstruction and the Problem of Reunification, 1863-1868
Chapter 11: The End of Reconstruction, 1868-1877
Chapter 12: The Wartime Generation Remembers the Conflict
Sobre o autor
Joan Waugh researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Waugh’s newest book is entitled U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which was awarded the Jefferson Davis Book Prize from the Museum of the Confederacy and the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. Waugh’s other books include Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University, 1998), The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Waugh has been honored with three teaching prizes, including UCLA’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award.
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