Finding the Southern Family in the Civil War

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9078779
AutoresJane Turner Censer (George Mason University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas219-230
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4529 • E-ISSN: 1527-1897
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jsh/shs027
OpenAlexW2136293021
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

In a massive compendium Writing the Civil War, published in 1998, James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper gathered essays from numerous scholars of the American Civil War. These pieces detailed how various aspects of the field had changed over time: battlefield tactics, both northern and Confederate strategy, as well as northern and southern politics. Yet in their careful introduction, McPherson and Cooper also pointed out areas such as social history in which they saw “significant lacunae.” They noted, “We still know little about the impact of the war on families, children, and marriage patterns ... Nor have Civil War historians yet come to grips with questions of sex and sexuality or rape and prostitution.”1 In the decade and half since that call to action, some important studies have grappled with the question of the impact of the war on black and white families. Yet their answers to the question of change, while stimulating and provocative, have in many cases also been ambiguous and contradictory.

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