With a new preface and updated historiographical essay. Based on
recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially
the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home
Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and
analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It
examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics,
costs, and experience of war from the perspective of the home
front, with special attention to the ways the war affected the
ideas, identities, interests, and issues shaping people’s lives,
and vice versa. The book looks closely at people’s responses to
war’s demands, whether in supporting the Union cause or opposing
it, and it measures the ways the war transformed society and
economy or simply reconfirmed ideas and reinforced practices
already underway. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
reveals, issues and concerns of emancipation, conscription, civil
liberties, economic policies and practices, religion, party
politics, war management, popular culture, and work were all part
of what Lincoln rightly termed “a People’s Contest” and as
much as the armies in the field determined the outcome of the
nation’s ordeal by fire. As The Northern Home Front during the
Civil War shows, understanding the experience of the women and men
on the home front is essential to realizing Walt Whitman’s
oft-quoted call to get “the real war” into the books.
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