| Description |
1 online resource. |
|
text file |
| Series |
Uncivil Wars
|
|
Uncivil wars.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher -- Part I. Leaders -- The "Gettysburg" Lincoln: the back story of a full-frontal photograph / Harold Holzer -- Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg / Ethan S. Rafuse -- "It is just what it is and nothing else": Grant after Cold Harbor / Joan Waugh -- Jeb Stuart in full finery / Gary W. Gallagher -- Roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner / J. Matthew Gallman -- The weird one: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville portrait / Kathryn Shively Meier -- The peculiar genius of William Tecumseh Sherman / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Part II. Soldiers -- Looking at war: Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Emory M. Thomas -- Confederates at Gettysburg / Brooks D. Simpson -- Champ Ferguson / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Who are they? / Carol Reardon -- Part III. Civilians -- A family in camp / Caroline E. Janney -- What's in a face: Annie Etheridge Hooks and civil work / Jane E. Schultz -- Refugee camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863 / Thavolia Glymph -- Finding a new war in an old image / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Part IV. Victims -- My dead Confederate / James Marten -- Andrew J. Russell and the stone wall at Fredericksburg / Earl J. Hess -- "A harvest of death": negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner / Stephen Cushman -- Colonel William P. Rogers and his comrades: postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862 / T. Michael Parrish -- "Eye of history": looking at Civil War prisoners of war / Judith A. Giesberg -- A dead horse / James I. Robertson Jr -- Part V. Places -- City Point, Virginia: the nerve center of the Union war effort / Elizabeth R. Varon -- The book or the gun? / Stephen Berry -- From home front to ruins: the Fredericksburg destruction / William A. Blair -- George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. view of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865 / Megan Kate Nelson -- The Grand Review / Steven E. Woodworth. |
| Summary |
Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women's, and environmental history. The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclectic approach to the assignment, organized by topic: Leaders, Soldiers, Civilians, Victims, and Places. Readers will rediscov. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works.
|
|
War photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
War photography. |
|
United States. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Photography in historiography -- Case studies.
|
|
Photography in historiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
|
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
|
|
History.
|
|
Pictorial works.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
|
Illustrated works.
|
|
Illustrated works.
|
|
Case studies.
|
| Added Author |
Gallagher, Gary W., editor, author.
|
|
Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew), editor, author.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lens of war. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014039729 |
| ISBN |
9780820348117 (electronic book) |
|
0820348112 (electronic book) |
|
9780820348100 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
0820348104 |
|
