Patriotic Toil

Author : Jeanie Attie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801422248

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Patriotic Toil by Jeanie Attie Pdf

During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would ensure women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. Coming after years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic. Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political rights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence. Attie draws on letters by hundreds of women in which they reflect on their political awakenings at the war's outbreak and their increasing skepticism of national policies as the conflict dragged on. Her book integrates the Civil War into the history of American gender relations and the development of feminism, providing a nuanced analysis of the relationship among gender construction, class development, and state formation in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Melinda Lawson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700614189

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Patriot Fires by Melinda Lawson Pdf

The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government. Though much has been written about the Civil War and the making of the political and economic American nation, this is the first comprehensive study of the role that the war played in the shaping of the cultural and ideological nation-state. In Patriot Fires, Lawson explains how, when threatened by the rebellious South, the North came together as a nation and mobilized its populace for war. With no formal government office to rally citizens, the job of defining the war in patriotic terms fell largely to private individuals or associations, each with their own motives and methods. Lawson explores how these "interpreters" of the war helped instill in Americans a new understanding of loyalty to country. Through efforts such as sanitary fairs to promote the welfare of soldiers, the war bond drives of Jay Cooke, and the establishment of Union Leagues, Northerners cultivated a new sense of patriotism rooted not just in the subjective American idea, but in existing religious, political, and cultural values. Moreover, Democrats and Republicans, Abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln created their own understandings of American patriotism and national identity, raising debates over the meaning of the American "idea" to new heights. Examining speeches, pamphlets, pageants, sermons, and assemblies, Lawson shows how citizens and organizations constructed a new kind of nationalism based on a nation of Americans rather than a union of states-a European-styled nationalism grounded in history and tradition and celebrating the preeminence of the nation-state. Original in its insights and innovative in its approach, Patriot Fires is an impressive work of cultural and intellectual history. As America engages in new conflicts around the globe, Lawson shows us that issues addressed by nation builders of the nineteenth century are relevant once again as the meaning of patriotism continues to be explored.

Author : Frances M. Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226108643

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War Stories by Frances M. Clarke Pdf

This “layered, nuanced, and focused study” of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of the immense suffering it inflicted. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism in public or private discourse. In fact, most people portrayed the war in highly sentimental and patriotic terms. While scholars typically dismiss this everyday writing as simplistic or naïve, Frances M. Clarke argues that we need to reconsider the letters, diaries, songs, and journalism penned by Union soldiers and their caregivers to fully understand the war’s impact and meaning. In War Stories, Clarke revisits the most common stories that average Northerners told in hopes of redeeming their suffering and hardship—stories that enabled people to express their beliefs about religion, community, and personal character. From tales of Union soldiers who died heroically to stories of tireless volunteers who exemplified the Republic’s virtues, War Stories sheds new light on this transitional moment in the history of war, emotional culture, and American civic life.

Author : Julie L. Holcomb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538118566

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Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures by Julie L. Holcomb Pdf

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war—its causes and its consequences— continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.

Author : Libra R. Hilde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813932187

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Worth a Dozen Men by Libra R. Hilde Pdf

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. However, they were expected to exercise their talents only in the home; nursing strange men in hospitals was considered inappropriate, if not indecent. Nevertheless, in defiance of tradition, Confederate women set up hospitals early in the Civil War and organized volunteers to care for the increasing number of sick and wounded soldiers. As a fledgling government engaged in a long and bloody war, the Confederacy relied on this female labor, which prompted a new understanding of women’s place in public life and a shift in gender roles. Challenging the assumption that Southern women’s contributions to the war effort were less systematic and organized than those of Union women, Worth a Dozen Men looks at the Civil War as a watershed moment for Southern women. Female nurses in the South played a critical role in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates, thus allowing the South to continue fighting. They embodied a new model of heroic energy and nationalism, and came to be seen as the female equivalent of soldiers. Moreover, nursing provided them with a foundation for pro-Confederate political activity, both during and after the war, when gender roles and race relations underwent dramatic changes. Worth a Dozen Men chronicles the Southern wartime nursing experience, tracking the course of the conflict from the initial burst of Confederate nationalism to the shock and sorrow of losing the war. Through newspapers and official records, as well as letters, diaries, and memoirs—not only those of the remarkable and dedicated women who participated, but also of the doctors with whom they served, their soldier patients, and the patients’ families—a comprehensive picture of what it was like to be a nurse in the South during the Civil War emerges.

Author : Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820344539

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Kentucky Women by Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr. Pdf

"Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development."--

Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett,Mary C. Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101072880352

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Heroines of the Rebellion by Linus Pierpont Brockett,Mary C. Vaughan Pdf

Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett,Mary C. Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Cooking for the sick
ISBN : UOM:69015000048104

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Famous Women of the War by Linus Pierpont Brockett,Mary C. Vaughan Pdf

Author : Andrea R. Foroughi
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873516716

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Go If You Think It Your Duty by Andrea R. Foroughi Pdf

A fascinating first-hand account of life during the U.S. Civil War as told by a husband and wife together through the letters they wrote to each other.

Author : William Tidd Matson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009629515

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The Poetical Works of William Tidd Matson by William Tidd Matson Pdf

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101029637814

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The French Revolution of 1789 as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030006842399

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The French revolution of 1789, as viewed in the light of... by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : William Gannaway Brownlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : History
ISBN : OXFORD:N11466112

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Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession by William Gannaway Brownlow Pdf

This work discusses the rise, progression and decline of pro-secession views in Tennessee before and during the Civil War.

Author : Ben Offiler,Rachel Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350151963

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American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad by Ben Offiler,Rachel Williams Pdf

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad explores the different ways in which charities, voluntary associations, religious organisations, philanthropic foundations and other non-state actors have engaged with traditions of giving. Using examples from the late eighteenth century to the Cold War, the collection addresses a number of major themes in the history of philanthropy in the United States. These examples include the role of religion, the significance of cultural networks, and the interplay between civil diplomacy and international development, as well as individual case studies that challenge the very notion of philanthropy as a social good. Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape – and at least nominally to improve – people's lives both within and beyond the United States.

Author : William Darrah Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015026643018

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Lincoln and Stanton by William Darrah Kelley Pdf