Serenity

Serenity

  • Autor: Blichert, Frederick
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • Col·lecció: Cultographies
  • ISBN: 9780231544115
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231544115
  • Lloc de publicació:  South Carolina , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2016
  • Mes: Setembre
  • Idioma: Anglés

A collection of important but little-known scholarship examining the Civil War and Reconstruction

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Past officers of the South Carolina Historical Association (SCHA) Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer have selected twenty-three essays from the several hundred published since 1931 to create this treasure trove of scholarship on an impressive variety of subjects including race, politics, military events, and social issues.

The volume is divided by topic into five subsections. "The Politics of Secession and Civil War" stimulates thought on many of the era's leading political figures and their respective policies, and "On the Battlefront" describes the effects of war on soldiers and civilians. Several historians investigate the people and institutions of southern society at war in "On the Home Front." Dan T. Carter addresses the impact of emancipation on the South in the early stages of Reconstruction in "Emancipation, Race, and Society." The essays in "The Politics of Reconstruction" investigate the contentious end of Reconstruction in South Carolina.

All articles published in the Proceedings after 2002 are available on the SCHA website, but this volume offers, for the first time, easy access to the journal's best articles on the Civil War and Reconstruction up through 2001. Preeminent scholars such as Frank Vandiver, Dan T. Carter, and Orville Vernon Burton are among the contributors to this collection, which should reinvigorate interest in a new historical synthesis of the Palmetto State's experience during that era.

  • Cover
  • SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERAS
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Editors’ Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Politics of Secession and Civil War
    • The Age of Lincoln: Then and Now (2010)
    • Francis W. Pickens and the War Begins (1970)
    • Attorney General Isaac W. Hayne and the South Carolina Executive Council of 1862 (1952)
    • William L. Yancey and the League of United Southerners (1946)
    • William W. Boyce: A Leader of the Southern Peace Movement (1978)
  • On the Battlefront
    • The Bombardment of Charleston, 1863–1865: Union General Quincy Gillmore, the Targeting of Civilians, and the Ethics of Modern War (2004)
    • Dalton and the Rebirth of the Army of Tennessee (2002)
  • On the Home Front
    • The South Carolina Ordnance Board, 1860–1861 (1945)
    • The Work of Soldiers’ Aid Societies in South Carolina during the Civil War (1938)
    • Dissatisfaction and Desertion in Greenville District, South Carolina, 1860–1865 (2001)
    • The Problem of Relief for the Families of Confederate Soldiers in South Carolina (1994)
  • Emancipation, Race, and Society
    • Fateful Legacy: White Southerners and the Dilemma of Emancipation (1977)
    • The Freedmen’s Bureau and Its Carolina Critics (1962)
    • Edgefield Reconstruction: Political Black Leaders (1988)
    • The New Regime: Race, Politics, and Police in Reconstruction Charleston, 1865–1875 (1994)
    • A Reconsideration: The University of South Carolina during Reconstruction (1974)
  • The Politics of Reconstruction
    • Wade Hampton and the Rise of One-Party Racial Orthodoxy in South Carolina (1977)
    • The South Carolina Constitution of 1865 as a Democratic Document (1942)
    • Andrew Johnson: The Second Swing ’Round the Circle (1966)
    • Righteous Lives: A Comparative Study of the South Carolina Scalawag Leadership during Reconstruction (2003)
    • Wade Hampton: Conflicted Leader of the Conservative Democracy? (2007)
    • Governor Chamberlain and the End of Reconstruction (1977)
    • No Tears of Penitence: Religion, Gender, and the Aesthetic of the Lost Cause in the 1876 Hampton Campaign (2001)
  • Contributors
  • Index