social aspects

Examines conflicts within the Confederacy during the Civil War, identifying groups that were opposed to secession and the war for various reasons, and looking at the efforts of plain folks, Native Americans, and slaves who worked to bring the Confederacy to its knees.

Features over 300 alphabetically-arranged entries on the role of women during the American Civil War, written by over 100 scholars and gleaned from original documents, letters and diaries.

Explores the material, political, intellectual, and spiritual impact of the enormous loss of life resulting from the Civil War in America, and looks at how military personnel and civilians dealt with the carnage on both practical and spiritual levels.

Offers a detailed analysis of the Civil War siege at Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and explores how the battle influenced the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed.

Historical and modern photographs depict how former Civil War battlegrounds have changed throughout history.

Offers a comprehensive account of the experiences of escaped blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, discussing the reactions blacks had to the war, their interactions with both armies, and the reasons many risked their lives to travel across the ocean to Sierra Leone.

A collection of essays by twenty-one writers that explore what it means to become an American in an era of globalization, the internet, identity politics, ethnic niche advertising, and cable television.

Presents a day-by-day account of the Civil War years through the recollections of soldiers, journalists, politicians, farmers, nurses, and slaves.

Presents thirty true stories about little-known or unique events that occurred in the North and South during the Civil War, from the making of gunpowder out of urine, to the choice of an innocent man to be executed in the the place of his brother.