Civil War Washington (eBook, ePUB)

History, Place, and Digital Scholarship
Redaktion: Lawrence, Susan C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation's capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal government's experiment in compensated emancipation, which went into effect when all of the capital's slaves were freed in April 1862. Another essay explores the city's place as a major center of military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other contributors reflect on literature and the war, particularly on the poetry published in hospital newspapers and Walt Whitman's formative experiences with the city and its wounded.The digital project associated with this book offers a virtual examination of the nation's capital from multiple perspectives. Through a collection of datasets, visual works, texts, and maps, the digital project offers a case study of the social, political, cultural, and scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The book also provides insights into the complex and ever-shifting nature of ongoing digital projects while encouraging others to develop their own interpretations and participate in the larger endeavor of digital history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803269910
• Artikelnr.: 42426969

Autorenporträt

Susan C. Lawrence is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She is the author of Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Civil War Washington: The City and the Site
Susan C. Lawrence, Elizabeth Lorang, Brett Barney, and Kenneth M. Price
2. Developing Civil War Washington
Katherine L. Walter, Elizabeth Lorang, Stacy Rickel, and Karin Dalziel
3. Historical Geography, GIS, and Civil War Washington
Rob Shepard
4. Emancipation in the District of Columbia
Kenneth J. Winkle
5. Mining the Compensated Emancipation Petitions
Kenneth J. Winkle
6. Military Hospitals in the Department of Washington
Susan C. Lawrence
7. Reading Civil War Medical Cases
Susan C. Lawrence
8. Poetry, Washington DC’s Hospital Newspapers, and the Civil War
Elizabeth Lorang
9. Walt Whitman in Civil War Washington
Kenneth M. Price
Contributors
Index