The Great Task Remaining Before Us : : Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War / / ed. by Randall M. Miller, Paul A. Cimbala.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Andrew Jr., Rod,; Astor, Aaron,; Emberton, Carole,; Faulkner, Carol,; Frisby, Derek W.,; Green, Michael,; Hubbs, G. Ward,; Marshall, Anne E.,; Nystrom, Justin A.,; Phillips, Jason,; Storey, Margaret M.,; Wright, Denise E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cimbala, Paul A.,; Miller, Randall M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Reconstructing America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: An Unfinished War --; 1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction --; 2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri --; 3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 --; 4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front --; 5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power --; 6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia --; 7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation --; 8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause --; 9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact --; 10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South --; 11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party --; Notes --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823292981; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823292981
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Randall M. Miller, Paul A. Cimbala.

Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war’s end. In doing so, it shows that “the war” did not actually end with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining “freedom”; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing a new party system; and determining the scope and meanings of “union.”