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"In this groundbreaking new study, author Brook Thomas argues that literary analysis can enhance our historical understanding of race and Reconstruction. The standard view that Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 is a retrospective construction. Works of literature provide the perspective of those who continued to see possibilities for its renewal well past 1877. Historians have long tried to reconcile social history's emphasis on the local with political history's emphasis on the national. Literature creates national political allegories while focusing on events in a particular locale. Moreover, the debate over Reconstruction was a debate about state legitimacy as well as specific laws. It was a question of foundational myths as well as foundational legal principles. Literature's political allegories allow us to recreate those debates rather than view the end of Reconstruction as a foregone conclusion. Because many of the issues raised by Reconstruction remain unresolved, those debates continue into the present. Chapters treat how the racial issues raised by Reconstruction are interwoven with debates over state v. national authority, efforts to combat terrorism (the KKK), the paternalism of welfare, economic expansion, and the question of who should rightly inherit the nation's past. Thomas examines authors who opposed Reconstruction, authors who supported it, and authors who struggled with mixed feelings. This exciting text will set the standard in literary historical studies for decades to come"--

HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. --- Race relations in literature. --- Literature and society --- Politics and literature --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism.

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"In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow"-- "In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In Stories of the South, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow. Examining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy. "--

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"She went by many names--Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more--but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In Inventing Loreta Velasquez, acclaimed historian William C. Davis delves into the life of one of America's early celebrities, peeling back the myths she herself created to reveal a startling and even more implausible reality. This groundbreaking biography reveals a woman quite different from the public persona she promoted. In contrast to her bestselling memoir, The Woman in Battle, in which she claimed she was an emphatic Confederate patriot, Velazquez in fact never saw combat. Instead, during the war she manufactured bullets for the Union and convinced her Confederate husband to desert. After the Civil War ended, she wore many masks, masterminding ambitious confidence schemes worth millions, such as creating a phony mining company, conning North Carolina residents to back her financially in a fake immigration scheme, and attracting investors to build a railroad across western Mexico. With various husbands, Velasquez sought her fortune both in the American West and in the Klondike, though her endeavors cost one husband his life. She also became a social reformer advocating on behalf of better prison conditions, the Cuban revolt against Spain, and the plight of Cuban refugees. Further, Velasquez was one of the first women to foray into journalism and presidential politics. Always a sensational press favorite, throughout her life she displayed an uncanny ability to manipulate popular media and use her fame to her benefit in a way that foreshadows celebrities of our own time, including using her testimony in a Congressional inquiry about Civil War counterfeiting as a means of promoting her latest business ventures. So little has been known of Velasquez's real life that postmodern scholars have often glorified her as a 'woman warrior' and used her as an example in cross-gender issues and arguments concerning Hispanic nationalism. Davis firmly refutes these notions by bringing the historical Velasquez to the surface. Drawing on hundreds of sources including Velasquez's personal correspondence, Inventing Loreta Velasquez prompts a reevaluation of historical representations of this complex public figure"-- "Inventing Loreta Velasquez is a search for the reality behind the woman known as Loreta Velasquez, author of The Woman in Battle, one of only two memoirs by women who claimed to have posed as men to serve in the Civil War. For many years, historians have questioned the authenticity of parts of the book but mostly accept it as genuine"--

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. --- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). --- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. --- Women journalists --- Women social reformers --- Swindlers and swindling --- Celebrities --- Male impersonators --- Women soldiers --- Cross-dressers (Male impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Male impersonators) --- Impersonators, Male --- Impersonators of men --- Persons --- Women as soldiers --- Women in the military --- Soldiers --- Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, --- Buford, Harry T., --- Velasquez, Loreta, --- Keith, Mary Ann, --- Williams, Ann, --- Williams, Lauretta, --- Clark, Lauretta J., --- DeCaulp, Lauretta, --- United States --- History

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During the 1860 and 1864 presidential campaigns, Abraham Lincoln was the subject of over twenty campaign biographies. In this innovative study, Thomas A. Horrocks examines the role that these publications played in shaping an image of Lincoln that would resonate with voters and explores the vision of Lincoln that the biographies crafted, the changes in this vision over the course of four years, and the impact of these works on the outcome of the elections.Horrocks investigates Lincoln's campaign biographies within the context of the critical relationship between print and politi

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections. --- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. --- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. --- Presidents --- Campaign biography --- Biography --- Biography as a literary form --- Campaign literature --- Politics, Practical --- Election --- History --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- Linkŭln, Abrakham, --- Linkolʹn, Avraam, --- Linkūln, Ibrāhīm, --- Linkan, ʼAbrehām, --- Lincoln, A. --- Lin-kʻen, --- Linken, --- Lin, Kʻen, --- Lingkʻŏn, --- Lincoln, Abe, --- Liṅkan, Ēbrāhaṃ, --- Liṅkan, Abrahāṃ, --- לינקאלין, --- לינקאלן, אייברעהעם, --- לינקולן, אברהם --- 林肯, --- Liṅkana, Ābrāhama,