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The Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Yet battlefields were not the only landscapes altered by the war. Countless individuals saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. This book reveals this side of the war as it happened, examining the visual culture of the Northern home front.

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"'The present is a year productive of strange and surprising events,' a newspaper editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. 'It is one prolific of revolution and abounding in great and startling novelties.... We are entering, to say the least, upon a new and important epoch in the history of the world.' Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a half, it is clear that those war years would prove to be an era not just of revolution, but also of revelation: the passing of timeworn realities and the intimation of things to come." (Adam Goodheart, author of 1861)"

Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 30/09/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226061856, 978-0226061856
      ISBN10: 022606185X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Yet battlefields were not the only landscapes altered by the war. Countless individuals saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. This book reveals this side of the war as it happened, examining the visual culture of the Northern home front.

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      "'The present is a year productive of strange and surprising events,' a newspaper editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. 'It is one prolific of revolution and abounding in great and startling novelties.... We are entering, to say the least, upon a new and important epoch in the history of the world.' Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a half, it is clear that those war years would prove to be an era not just of revolution, but also of revelation: the passing of timeworn realities and the intimation of things to come." (Adam Goodheart, author of 1861)"

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