Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

by Peter John Brownlee

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln's determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality of brother fighting brother. Battles and battlefields occupy us, too: Bull...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022606185X
• ISBN13: 9780226061856
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 10.9"