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• The text devotes significant attention to the home front, where most Americans experienced the Civil War.
• The text traces the complex role of women, African-Americans, native people and race relations during the conflict.
• The text is arranged chronologically, while emphasizing serveral key themes throughout.  Political and social analysis is braided throughout the text, including what was lost and what was gained during this tumultuous period of American history.
• The text integrates sophisticated discussion of the strategy, tactics, logistics, economics and politics within the narrative events.
• Maps, charts, and illustrations are woven into the narrative to provide students with visual references.
• "Margin Glosses" help students identify the central themes and topics of the chapter as they read, without interrupting the narrative.
• The Epilogue describes how Americans remembered their Civil War in later years.
• A bibliography, organized by topic, gives students a list of the most recent writings about the Civil War era so they can further investigate topics of interest.
• Exerpts from primary sources, including diaries, songs, and newspapers, are dispersed throughout the narrative to give students direct insight into the mindsets and experiences of Americans during the Civil War.

• Enhanced and energized narrative. The second edition has been revised to make the text more concise, clarified, and contexualized, while still maintaining the captivating narrative.
• Chapter 1 has been completely revised.  In this edition, the authors have refreshed the chronology, included richer analysis of slavery's beginnings, and expanded the coverage of the Second Great Awakening, reform movements, planters and the economy of slavery.
• Selected maps have been revised and updated for improved clarity.
• Increased and enhanced coverage of women's political roles, attitudes toward Western expansion, and deeper discussion of many battles, including Antietam, the Seven Days, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, the Red River Campaign and Chambersburg.
• Full analysis of the Election of 1868.
• Detailed and thorough coverage of black army regiments and black churches after the War, and of Native American participation in the conflict.
• Enriched coverage of guerilla warfare, new analysis of the political views of a variety of leading Union Generals, and fuller discussion of naval warfare and the daily life of scholars.
• Clarified discussion of both the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.
• Current and relevant scholarship.  The entire text has been updated to include the most recent scholarly contributions to the field, including a revised bibliography.
• Expanded Epilogue on Civil War memory and its present-day legacy.

Prologue to Civil War: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Chapter 1: Commonalities and Conflict: Slavery and the American Republic

Chapter 2: Political Collapse: 1848-1860

Chapter 3: Southerners Secede and Amateurs Go to War: December 1860-December 1861

Chapter 4: Discovering the Scope of the War: 1861-1862

Chapter 5: Reckoning with Slavery, Reckoning with Freedom

Chapter 6: Attack and Die: November 1862-January 1863

Chapter 7: The Other War

Chapter 8: An Inconclusive Year: 1863

Chapter 9: A War of Exhaustion: 1864-1865

Chapter 10: Mixed Messages from the Victors: Northern Politics and Southern Reconstruction: 1863-1868

Chapter 11: White and Black Reconstruction in the South: 1865-1872

Chapter 12: Destroying Reconstruction

Epilogue: Remembering and Forgetting the Civil War Era

Selected Bibliography

Documents

      The Compromise of 1850.

Credits

Index

Civil War and Reconstruction (1854 - 1876)  (U.S. History)

This Terrible War, Second Edition
Michael Fellman, Lesley J. Gordon, and Daniel E. Sutherland

I find This Terrible War to have a superior mix of military, social, economic, and political coverage. Indeed, the book is so well written and organized that I no longer believe that I have to cover a bit of everything in my lectures. The text can introduce students to aspects of the war without my having to worry that its coverage is incomplete. --John Fowler, Kennesaw State University

Absorbing and accessible, This Terrible War examines the American Civil War and its aftermath by exploring the central themes and events of the period and challenging many traditional views about the war that nearly tore the country in two. Beyond the battlefield, the authors devote attention to the home front, social issues, and economics from antebellum times to Reconstruction, with a wide range of personal stories —from Generals to common soldiers.

Features

• “Margin Glosses” help students identify the central themes and topics of the chapter as they read, without interrupting the narrative.
• Excerpts from primary sources, including diaries, songs, and newspaper articles, are dispersed throughout the text, giving students insight into individual experiences.

New to this Edition

• An enhanced and energized narrative provides an even more concise, clear, and contextualized text.
• A reorganized and significantly revised opening chapter on pre-1840s America provides political, social, and economic background for the political crisis to come.
• Revised maps provide more geographical detail and clarify troop movements and military strategies.
• An Expanded Epilogue on Civil War memory and its legacy connects the past to present-day events and issues.
• Updated scholarship and a revised bibliography keep the book current and relevant with the most recent contributions to the field.

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