Thursday, June 22, 2017

McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), Part 2

Note: Due to the large number of notes I collected for this fascinating period of U.S. history, I divided this blog post into several parts:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Video: Lecture Courses and TV Series
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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

(Lectures addressing the period 1848-1865.)

### Judith Giesberg, "Civil War-Era Women and Volunteerism," Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 27 March 2017.
  • Judith Giesberg, Department of History, Villanova University.
  • Judith Giesberg. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Judith Ann Giesberg. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Book Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Brian Taylor, "Civil War and Emancipation Policy," Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 13 March 2017.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Judkin Browning, "Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days' Battles," Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 28 February 2017.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Allen Guelzo, "Lincoln, Slavery, and the Dred Scott Case," Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 16 February 2017.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Benjamin Bankhurst, "Appalachia in the American Imagination," Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 29 November 2016.Video Mentioned:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Charles Dusch, "Civil War in the Fall of 1864," U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 22 November 2016.~~~~~~

### Patrick Allitt, "California Gold Rush," Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 19 September 2016.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Hadley Arkes, "American Founding and Crisis of the House Divided," Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 14 September 2016.Book Discussed:
  • Harry V. Jaffa. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 1959. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Carole Emberton, "Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison," State University of New York, Buffalo, 13 April 2016.
  • Carole Emberton, Department of History, State University of New York, Buffalo.
  • Carole Emberton, C-SPAN.
  • Carole Emberton. Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, editors. Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Scott Nesbit, "Cultural Heritage and Confederate Monuments," University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 23 February 2016.Website Mentioned:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Tracy McKenzie, "Union and Emancipation in the Civil War," Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 07 December 2015.~~~~~~

### Brian Craig Miller, "Civil War Veterans," Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 16 November 2015.~~~~~~

### Thomas Balcerski, "Culture of the Antebellum Congress," Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, 12 November 2015.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Nina Silber, "Slavery, Women, and the Civil War," Boston University, 06 October 2015.
  • Nina Silber, Department of History, Boston University.
  • Nina Silber. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Nina Silber. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Nina Silber. Gender and the Sectional Conflict. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Book Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "Morality in 19th Century Literature," University of Wisconsin - Madison, 05 October 2015.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Elizabeth Gray, "Drug Addiction in 19th Century America," Towson University, Towson, Maryland, 18 September 2015.Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:~~~~~~

### Douglas E. Thompson, "Slavery and Religion," Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 11 February 2015.Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:~~~~~~

### Jennifer Murray, "Civil War Reunions," University of Virginia's College at Wise, 28 January 2015.Books Discussed:
  • Gaines M. Foster. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### John Turner, "Mormons in 19th Century America," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 18 November 2014.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Brian Dirck, "Lincoln, Race, and Emancipation," Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana, 11 November 2014.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Martha Jones, "Female Slaves and the Law," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21 October 2014.Books Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:Websites:~~~~~~

### Robert Wolff, "Remembering the Civil War," Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, 01 May 2014.
  • Robert S. Wolff, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University.
Books Mentioned?
  • David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward L. Ayers. What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward L. Ayers, editor. America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries. American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com; Amazon Preview.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Christopher Hamner, "Motivations of Civil War Soldiers," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 31 March 2014.~~~~~~

### Merritt Roe Smith, "Industrial Revolution in America," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 27 February 2014.Some Books by Merritt Roe Smith:
  • Merritt Roe Smith. Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Merritt Roe Smith. Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1994.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Merritt Roe Smith and others. Inventing America: A History of the United States, second edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Anne Sarah Rubin, "Civil War Memory," University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 06 December 2013.
  • Anne Sarah Rubin, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  • Anne Sarah Rubin, C-SPAN.
  • Anne Sarah Rubin. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Anne Sarah Rubin. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Books Mentioned:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Megan Kate Nelson, "Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War," Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 22 October 2013.Wikipedia Articles, etc.:~~~~~~

### Stephen Engle, "Evolving Nature of the Civil War," Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 21 March 2013.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Steffen Schmidt, "History of Political Parties," Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 08 March 2013.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### George Forgie, "President Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation," The University of Texas at Austin, 14 February 2013.
  • George B. Forgie, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin.
  • George B. Forgie. Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Alan Lessoff, "19th Century U.S. Urban Growth," Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 02 February 2013.Book Mentioned:
  • Gary B. Nash. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Jeffrey McClurken, "Civil War History and the Film Gone With the Wind," University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 04 October 2012.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Roger Davidson, "U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War History," Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland, 25 April 2012.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Orville Vernon Burton, "Idea of Southern Identity," Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 24 April 2012.~~~~~~

### Susan Schulten, "The Secession Crisis," University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 19 April 2012.Books and Documents Mentioned:The Book Website for Mapping the Nation has images for maps discussed in the lecture:
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### William Cooper, "The Idea of Honor in the Antebellum South," Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 15 March 2012.Books Mentioned and Related Books:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Chandra Manning, "The Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Black Soldiers," Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 27 February 2012.Wikipedia Articles, etc.:~~~~~~

### John Stauffer, "African Americans and the Civil War," Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 22 February 2012.Wikipedia Articles, etc:~~~~~~

### Jonathan White, "Civil Liberties and Treason During the Civil War," Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, 16 February 2012.Wikipedia Articles, etc.:~~~~~~

### James Connolly, "Immigration and the Roots of Pluralism in the U.S.," Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 16 February 2012.Book Mentioned?
  • David Jacobson, editor. The Immigration Reader: America in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing / Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Joan Cashin, "Abolitionist and Women's Rights Movements," Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 13 February 2012.Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:~~~~~~

### Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Robert E. Lee," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 08 February 2012.
### Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 10 February 2012.Wikipedia Articles: LeeWikipedia Articles: Grant~~~~~~

### Gillis Harp, "1850s Collapse of the Second Party System," Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania, 30 November 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Timothy Orr, "Civil War Prisons," Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23 November 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Susannah Ural, "Election of 1860 and Secession," University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 18 November 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Beverly Bunch-Lyons, "Resistance Methods of Women in Slavery," Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Blacksburg, Virginia, 27 October 2011.Books Mentioned:~~~~~~

### William Foster, "Use of Racial Terms in 19th Century Literature," Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, Connecticut, 25 October 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Amy Murrell Taylor, "Emancipation During the Civil War," State University of New York, Albany, 10 October 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Tim Huebner, "President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger Taney," Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, 29 September 2011.
  • Tim Huebner, Rhodes College.
  • Tim Huebner, C-SPAN.
  • Timothy S. Huebner. Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Scott Martin, "History of Opiates in America, Part 1," Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 27 September 2011.
### Scott Martin, "History of Opiates in America, Part 2," Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 27 September 2011.
  • Scott Martin, Department of History, Bowling Green State University.
Books Discussed:
  • David T. Courtwright. Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Kathryn Burns-Howard, "Early Women's Movement," Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 26 July 2011.Book Mentioned:
  • Paul E. Johnson. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978; 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Sharita Thompson, "Prostitution and the Civil War," Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 13 April 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Peter Carmichael, "The Confederate Soldier," Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 07 April 2011.Documents Mentioned:~~~~~~

### Kathryn Meier, "Civil War Medicine," University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 22 February 2011.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Edna Medford, "Blacks and the Civil War," Howard University, Washington, D.C., 30 November 2010.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Caroline Janney, "Women and the Civil War," Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 30 November 2010.Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:~~~~~~

### Mary DeCredico, "The Confederate High Tide," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 14 October 2010.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Elizabeth Varon, "Fugitive Slave Laws," University of Virginia, 04 October 2010.Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:~~~~~~

### Matthew Pinsker, "The Election of 1860," Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 28 September 2010.Items Mentioned in Lecture:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Greg Carr, "Maroonage," Howard University, Washington, D.C., 28 September 2010.Books Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Paul Finkelman, "Dred Scott Case with Paul Finkelman," Albany Law School, New York, 27 September 2010.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

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This post continues in Part 3: More Video.