The Long Shadow of the Civil War

This anthology comprises ten essays, each of which deals with some aspect of the Civil War in the broadest sense, reflecting its role and influence on American history and society

Papers cover efforts to evangelize and even colonize Africa, abolitionism in the ante bellum era, the Veteran Reserve Corps, Confederate political rhetoric, Emory Upton, race and racism in a Southern army camp during W. W. I, Lincoln in Africa American thought and memory, memorialization of the Confederacy, Eisenhower's perception of the war, and even Walt Disney's cinematic portrayals of the South.

All of the essays in The Long Civil War, a volume in the Kentucky series "New Directions in Southern History," are thoughtful and break new ground, they are primarily for the serious scholar.

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