Home front : daily life in the Civil War North

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Main Authors: Brownlee, Peter John, (Author), Burns, Sarah, (Author), Dillon, Diane, 1958- (Author), Greene, Daniel, 1973- (Author), Stevens, Scott Manning, (Author)
Corporate Author: Terra Foundation for American Art, (sponsoring body)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: picturing war / Adam Goodheart
  • The home at war, the war at home: the art of the Northern home front / Sarah Burns and Daniel Greene
  • The fabric of war: cotton, commodities, and contrabands / Peter John Brownlee
  • Other homes, other fronts: native America during the Civil War / Scott Stevens
  • Nothing daunts Chicago: wartime relief on the home front / Daniel Greene
  • Rending and mending: the needle, the flag, and the wounds of war in Lilly Martin Spencer's Home of the red, white, and blue / Sarah Burns
  • Nature, nurture, nation: appetites for apples and autumn during the Civil War / Diane Dillon.