Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North

by Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold Holzer

Book Overview

During the American Civil War, popular prints were frequently used to depict, define, and celebrate both the Union and Confederate causes. The Union Image explores the graphic arts that portrayed the Northern side--both in patriotic pictures and newsworthy illustrations published while the war raged and in retrospective images issued years later as major weapons in the postwar battle to shape the national memory. Created not for connoisseurs but for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807825107
• ISBN13: 9780807825105
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 3.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"