This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the
northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse
ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their
ideas, interests, and actions. The Northern Home Front during the
Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern
home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast
and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship
organizing for and against war. The text focuses attention on the
roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who
typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American
war-making society, and provides new information on subjects such
as raising money for war, civil liberties in wartime, the role of
returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular
culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and
freedom. Organized topically, the book covers the geographic
breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War.
The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of
life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to
name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book
reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that
influenced northerners' understanding of, participation in, and
reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war.
Contemporary illustrations from illustrated magazines such as
Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Lithographs depicting such activities as women and men at work
making armaments, people examining wares at a Sanitary Fair, nurses
tending to soldiers in hospitals, and immigrants, workers, and
others in dissent Period photographs of subjects such as supply
depots filled with material for war, women making flags for
regiments, and recruiting activities A map of the northern states
An extensive and extremely detailed bibliographical essay
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