In the Cause of Liberty

by Cooper, William J., Jr.; Mccardell, John M., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780807143636
• ISBN10: 0807143634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-14
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas-antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans-white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South. Through these differing and sometimes competing perspectives, the contributors address crucial ongoing controversies at the epicenter of the cultural, political, and intellectual history of this decisive period in American history.

Author Biography

William J. Cooper, Jr., is the author of Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era; Jefferson Davis, American, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and numerous other books. A Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, he lives in Baton Rouge. John M. McCardell, Jr., is the author of The Idea of a Southern Nation and coeditor of A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald. He is President Emeritus and College Professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
The Civil War and the Transformation of America	p. 1
Slaveholding Nation, Slaveholding Civilization	p. 9
Why Did Southerners Secede?	p. 25
"A party man who did not believe in any man who was not"
Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Union	p. 40
Rebels and Patriots in the Confederate "Revolution"	p. 63
Wartime Nationalism and Race
Comparing the Visions of Confederate, Black Union, and White Union Soldiers	p. 87
Emancipation without Slavery
Remembering the Union Victory	p. 105
Redeeming a Failed Revolution
Confederate Memory	p. 126
Traced by Blood
African Americans and the Legacies of the Civil War	p. 136
Concluding Thoughts	p. 154
Notes	p. 157
Contributors	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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