Reconstructing the National Body: Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War1

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN-MARY GRANT
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American History ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
National History ◽  
National Body ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
The Dead

This lecture presents the text of the speech about masculinity, disability, and race in the American Civil War delivered by the author at the 2007 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History held at the British Academy. It discusses the centrality of the Civil War to America's national history, and also highlights the role of the dead in the construction both of Northern/Union nationalism and the Southern civic religion.

scholarly journals Book Review: Reconstruction: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Matthew Laudicina
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
Time Periods

The Reconstruction Era is often considered to be one of the most tumultuous time periods in American History. This era, which encompasses the twelve or so years immediately following the American Civil War, was a time of great social, economic, and constitutional strife. Here to provide a concise reference work on this era is Reconstruction: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jim Powell
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cotton Trade

This chapter describes the objectives of the book. No full-length work exists on the crisis in the British cotton trade during the American Civil War, and the only substantial study of the raw cotton market in Liverpool was made by Thomas Ellison 130 years ago. The book remedies these omissions. It has two objectives. First, to establish the factual record of Britain’s raw cotton supply during the civil war. Second, to examine the impact of the civil war on Liverpool, and on the operation of the raw cotton trade there, with specific reference to the role of the cotton brokers. The chapter discusses the existing historiography and its deficiencies, and describes the primary sources that underpin this study. It establishes the crucial, and neglected, importance of price to the trade in raw cotton.

scholarly journals A Soldier’s Faith: The Civil War Experiences and Reflections of William Porcher DuBose

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Robert B. Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Theology Of The Cross ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Military Chaplain ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

AbstractThe noted Episcopal theologian William Porcher DuBose was a seminarian when the American Civil War began. He was torn between continuing his studies for ordination and joining the Confederate Army. He felt duty bound to defend his homeland, and he served heroically, wounded in combat, and taken as a prisoner of war. Troubled by the senselessness and inhumanity of war, he was eventually ordained and served as a military chaplain. He devoted himself to faith and ministry when he realized his country and culture were lost. DuBose vividly presents his views on war and faith in his wartime correspondence with his fiancée and later wife Anne Barnwell Perroneau, and other writings. His experiences of loss and poverty were the basis for his theology of the cross and his understanding of the role of suffering in the Christian life, and he subsequently dedicated himself to faith, peace, and reconciliation.

The Nationalization of American Migration Policies and the Visible Hand of the Shipping Lobby

2012 ◽  
pp. 211-262
Author(s):  
Torsten Feys
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
Visible Hand ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Migration

This chapter explores the role of the shipping lobby in shaping American laws that regulated migrant transport, particularly the laws that opposed and attempted to suppress immigration. It seeks to determine the lengths shipping companies would go to in order to ensure the right of entry of as many passengers as possible. It examines the American Civil War and the labour shortage and necessary encouragement of migration that resulted from it; immigration as a federal issue; the shrink in tolerance of immigration amongst xenophobic American labour unions; the calls for immigration restrictions and the improvements to their enforcement; the system of remote border control; migration as a lobby issue; and lobby campaigns both for and against immigration. It concludes that the shipping lobby was harshly divided along the lines of nationalist interests.

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