The Civil War Era - SIZER, LYDE CULLEN / CULLEN, JIM
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There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology. Lincoln's Gettysburg address is here and so too is a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary sources present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. The book encourages its readers to "listen in" and make sense of the conversations of historians-and to join them by interpreting material related to their arguments. Each section begins with a preface that pulls together secondary and primary sources, and introductions to the…mehr

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There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology. Lincoln's Gettysburg address is here and so too is a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary sources present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. The book encourages its readers to "listen in" and make sense of the conversations of historians-and to join them by interpreting material related to their arguments. Each section begins with a preface that pulls together secondary and primary sources, and introductions to the primary sources Web that will offer further avenues for exploration. Primary documents such as poetry, short stories, editorials, newspaper articles, speeches, illustrations, and political cartoons, as well as more personal documents like letters and diary entries, round out each section. Bibliographies and a timeline are also included, making this an authoritative, easy-to-use primer on the best research and writings about the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
Autorenporträt
Lyde Cullen Sizer is Associate Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Political Work of American Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (2000). Jim Cullen teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He is the author of The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past (1995) and The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003), among other books. He is also the creator of a website, American History for Cynical Beginners www.ecfs.org/projects/jcullen.
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"This anthology of sources for the Civil War era is a wellcontextualized collection of documents and secondary sources.Highlighted sections ask thought-provoking questions, directingstudents' attention and challenging them to come to gripswith the complexities of this era. This book is an extraordinarycontribution to teaching. It is the textbook that teachers dream offinding." Orville Vernon Burton, University ofIllinois

"The pulling together of all this material into one coherentvolume represents a considerable editorial achievement, and onethat highlights not just the most recent scholarly approaches toCivil War but also some of the reasons for the subject's perennialfascination for students, academics and the public alike."Journal of American Studies