Download or read book Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War written by Steven R. Boyd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, private printers in both the North and South produced a vast array of envelopes featuring iconography designed to promote each side's war effort. Many of these "covers" featured depictions of soldiers, prominent political leaders, Union or Confederate flags, Miss Liberty, Martha Washington, or even runaway slaves -- at least fifteen thousand pro-Union and two hundred fifty pro-Confederate designs appeared between 1861 and 1865. In Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War, the first book-length analysis of these covers, Steven R. Boyd explores their imagery to understand what motivated soldiers and civilians to support a war far more protracted and destructive than anyone anticipated in 1861. Northern envelopes, Boyd shows, typically document the centrality of the preservation of the Union as the key issue that, if unsuccessful, would lead to the destruction of United States, its Constitution, and its way of life. Confederate covers, by contrast, usually illustrate a competing vision of an independent republic free of the "tyranny" of the United States. Each side's flags and presidents symbolize these two rival viewpoints. Images of presidents Davis and Lincoln, often portrayed as contestants in a boxing match, personalized the contest and served to rally citizens to the cause of southern independence or national preservation. In the course of depicting the events of the period, printers also revealed the impact of the war on females and African Americans. Some envelopes, for example, featured women on the home front engaging in a variety of patriotic tasks that would have been almost unthinkable before the war. African Americans, on the other hand, became far more visible in American popular culture, especially in the North, where Union printers showed them pursuing their own liberation from southern slavery. With more than 180 full-color illustrations, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War is a nuanced and fascinating examination of Civil War iconography that moves a previously overlooked source from the periphery of scholarly awareness into the ongoing analysis of America's greatest tragedy.
Download or read book Civil War Patriotic Envelopes and Postal History written by Robert W. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Album of Civil War Patriotic Envelopes and Broadsides written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of Civil War Patriotic Envelopes and Postal History written by Robert W. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Envelopes with Patriotic Motifs from the Period of the Civil War and the Spanish American War written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scrapbook 1 Contains Patriotic Envelopes and Postcards Relating to the Civil War Includes a Number of Cartoon Cards written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See 04.0012 in the Object collection for more details about this collection.
Download or read book Scrapbook 2 Contains Patriotic Envelopes and Postcards Relating to the Civil War Includes a Number of Cartoon Cards written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriotic Envelopes written by Samuel T. DuBois and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All envelopes, addressed to DuBois in Hudson, New York, bear the image of the American flag and a patriotic slogan and are apparently from the Civil War era.
Download or read book Patriotic Envelopes written by Joyce Giaquinta and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decorated envelopes collected by Stephen Edison Paine and M.W. Davis, during the Civil War era; now in the collection of the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Download or read book Scrapbook of Envelopes written by Rush Christopher Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 186? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Envelope Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes images of Fort Sumter, a Palmetto tree, fighting cats, etc.
Download or read book The George Walcott Collection of Used Civil War Patriotic Covers written by George Walcott and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defining Duty in the Civil War written by J. Matthew Gallman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought hundreds of miles away. They read novels, short stories, poems, songs, editorials, and newspaper stories. They laughed at cartoons and satirical essays. Their spirits were stirred in response to recruiting broadsides and patriotic envelopes. This massive cultural outpouring offered a path for ordinary Americans casting around for direction. Examining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. Although a huge percentage of military-aged men served in the Union army, a larger group chose to stay home, even while they supported the war. This pathbreaking study investigates how men and women, both white and black, understood their roles in the People's Conflict. Wartime culture created humorous and angry stereotypes ridiculing the nation's cowards, crooks, and fools, while wrestling with the challenges faced by ordinary Americans. Gallman shows how thousands of authors, artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for navigating life in a nation at war.
Download or read book No Greater Calamity for the Country North South Conflict Secession and the Onset of Civil War written by Leon Reed and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union War written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union.
Download or read book The Civil War Envelopes written by Jedidiah Howe Adams and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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