Research Catalog

Title

The New York Times disunion : a history of the Civil War / edited by Ted Widmer, with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Widmer, Edward L.
• Risen, Clay
• Kalogerakis, George

Description

xv, 374 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some taking on major topics, like the Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Fredericksburg, while others tackled subjects whose seemingly incidental quality yielded unexpected riches and new angles. Some come from the country's leading historians; others from those for whom the war figured in private ways, involving an ancestor or a letter found in a trunk. Disunion received wide acclaim for featuring some of the most original thinking about the Civil War in years. For millions of readers, Disunion came to define the Civil War sesquicentennial. Now the historian Ted Widmer, along with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis of The New York Times, has curated a collection of these pieces, covering the entire history of the Civil War, from Lincoln's election to Appomattox and beyond. Moving chronologically and thematically across all four years of hostilities, this comprehensive and engrossing work examines secession, slavery, battles, and domestic and global politics. Here are previously unheard voices-of women, freed African Americans, and Native Americans-alongside those of Lincoln, Grant, and Lee, portrayed in human as well as historical scale. David Blight sheds light on how Frederick Douglass welcomed South Carolina's secession-an event he knew would catapult the abolitionist movement into the spotlight; Elizabeth R. Varon explores how both North and South clamored to assert that the nation's "ladies," symbolic of moral purity, had sided with them; Harold Holzer deciphers Lincoln's official silence between his election to the presidency and his inauguration-what his supporters named "masterful inactivity"-and the effects it had on the splintering country,"--Amazon.com.

Uniform Title

New York times.

Subject

• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / by Ted Widmer -- Secession -- Slavery -- Women and the homefront -- The battlefield -- The west and Native Americans -- Law and rights -- The Confederacy -- International context -- Abraham Lincoln and the Federal government -- Consequences.

Call Number

JFF 16-1647

ISBN

• 9780190621834
• 0190621834

LCCN

2016015114

OCLC

945719078

Title

The New York Times disunion : a history of the Civil War / edited by Ted Widmer, with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Widmer, Edward L., editor.

Risen, Clay, editor.

Kalogerakis, George, editor.

Added Title

New York times.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1647