Research Catalog

Title

Massachusetts and the Civil War [electronic resource] : The Commonwealth and National Disunion / edited by Matthew Mason, Conrad Edick Wright, and Katheryn P. Viens.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Details

Additional Authors

• Viens, Katheryn P., 1962-
• Wright, Conrad Edick.
• Mason, Matthew, 1968-
• Project Muse.

Description

1 online resource (pages cm)

Uniform Title

• Massachusetts and the Civil War (Online)
• Book collections on Project MUSE.

Subject

Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

Contents

Introduction: unification and (re-)division: the significance of Massachusetts in the Civil War era -- Part I. The opposition to slavery -- The union of abolitionists and emancipationists in Civil War/era Massachusetts / John Stauffer -- "Constitution or no constitution, law or no law": the Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861 / Dean Grodzins -- "Today abolitionist is merged in citizen": radical abolitionists and the union war / Peter Wirzbicki -- The rise and fall of the abolitionist republic / Richard S. Newman -- Part II. The war years -- The politics of unionism: Edward Everett, the Constitutional Union Party, and the election of 1860 / Matthew Mason -- McClellan in the hub: Boston's financiers and the war for emancipation / Carol Bundy -- The bonds of print: reading on home front and battlefield / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Part III. Reconciliation -- Mourning Charles Sumner: the flag resolution and the complications of Civil War memory / Sarah Purcell -- Reporting from the south: Massachusetts teachers and freedmen's education / Amy F. Morsman -- The union of gentlemen restored: college-educated northern veterans, reconciliation, and northern honor / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.

OCLC

ssj0001583658

Title

Massachusetts and the Civil War [electronic resource] : The Commonwealth and National Disunion / edited by Matthew Mason, Conrad Edick Wright, and Katheryn P. Viens.

Imprint

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Series

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Viens, Katheryn P., 1962-

Wright, Conrad Edick.

Mason, Matthew, 1968-

Project Muse.

LCCN

2015009308