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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R2,129
Discovery Miles 21 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant
and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for
the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study,
Andrew Slap arguesforcefully that the campaign was more than a
narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical
reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad
consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption,
Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any
kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of
newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap
confronts one of the major questions in American political history:
How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the
unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a
provocative contribution to this important debate.
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War
profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and
marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes
transformed northern society. In the generations following the
conflict, historians tried to understand and explain the North's
Civil War experience. Many historical explanations became taken for
granted, such as that the Union Army was ideologically Republican,
northern Democrats were disloyal, and German Americans were lousy
soldiers. Now in this eye-opening collection of eleven stimulating
essays, new and important information is unearthed that solidly
challenges the old historical arguments. The essays in This
Distracted and Anarchical People range widely throughout the
history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to
reexamine old theories and discover new aspects of the nation's
greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today
as they were a century and a half ago. What were the extent and
limits of wartime dissent in the North? How could a president most
effectively present himself to the public? Can the savagery of war
ever be tamed? How did African Americans create and maintain their
families? This Distracted and Anarchical People highlights the
newest scholarship on a diverse array of topics, bringing fresh
insight to bear on some of the most important topics in history
today-such as the democratic press in the antebellum North, peace
movements, the Union Army and the elections of 1864, Liberia and
the U.S. Civil War, and African American veterans and marriage
practices after Emancipation.
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War
profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and
marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes
transformed northern society. In the generations following the
conflict, historians tried to understand and explain the North's
Civil War experience. Many historical explanations became taken for
granted, such as that the Union Army was ideologically Republican,
northern Democrats were disloyal, and German Americans were lousy
soldiers. Now in this eye-opening collection of eleven stimulating
essays, new and important information is unearthed that solidly
challenges the old historical arguments. The essays in This
Distracted and Anarchical People range widely throughout the
history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to
reexamine old theories and discover new aspects of the nation's
greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today
as they were a century and a half ago. What were the extent and
limits of wartime dissent in the North? How could a president most
effectively present himself to the public? Can the savagery of war
ever be tamed? How did African Americans create and maintain their
families? This Distracted and Anarchical People highlights the
newest scholarship on a diverse array of topics, bringing fresh
insight to bear on some of the most important topics in history
today-such as the democratic press in the antebellum North, peace
movements, the Union Army and the elections of 1864, Liberia and
the U.S. Civil War, and African American veterans and marriage
practices after Emancipation.
Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably
altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal
transformations of the nineteenth century. The repercussions of the
war incited a broad range of unique problems in Appalachia,
including political dynamics, racial prejudices, and the regional
economy. Andrew L. Slap's anthology Reconstructing Appalachia
reveals life in Appalachia after the ravages of the Civil War, an
unexplored area that has left a void in historical literature.
Addressing a gap in the chronicles of our nation, this vital
collection explores little-known aspects of history with a
particular focus on the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction
periods. Acclaimed scholars John C. Inscoe, Gordon B. McKinney, and
Ken Fones-Wolf are joined by up-and-comers like Mary Ella Engel,
Anne E. Marshall, and Kyle Osborn in a unique volume of essays
investigating postwar Appalachia with clarity and precision.
Featuring a broad geographic focus, these compelling essays cover
postwar events in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee,
West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. This approach provides an intimate
portrait of Appalachia as a diverse collection of communities where
the values of place and family are of crucial
importance.Highlighting a wide array of topics including racial
reconciliation, tension between former Unionists and Confederates,
the evolution of post--Civil War memory, and altered perceptions of
race, gender, and economic status, Reconstructing Appalachia is a
timely and essential study of a region rich in heritage and
tradition.
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of
battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside:
Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of
the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few
urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted,
enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the
North. Confederate Cities, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank
Towers, shifts the focus from the agrarian economy that undergirded
the South to the cities that served as its political and
administrative hubs. The contributors use the lens of the city to
examine now-familiar Civil War-era themes, including the scope of
the war, secession, gender, emancipation, and war's destruction.
This more integrative approach dramatically revises our
understanding of slavery's relationship to capitalist economics and
cultural modernity. By enabling a more holistic reading of the
South, the book speaks to contemporary Civil War scholars and
students alike-not least in providing fresh perspectives on a
well-studied war.
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