Reconfiguring the Union

Chapter 1 Reconfiguring the Unions: A Long History of Civil War Transformations

Chapter 2 Lincoln and Emancipation: The Lessons of the Letter to Horace Greeley

Chapter 3 Conservatism, Transformation, and the War for the Union

Chapter 5 The Military Significance of the 1864 Presidential Election

Chapter 6 “In Union There Is Strength”: City-Building and Nation-Building in Civil War–Era Philadelphia, 1844–1865

Chapter 7 “There Will Be Blood”: The Civil War and the Birth of the Oil Industry

Chapter 8 “Faugh a Ballagh!” (Clear the Way): The Irish and the American Civil War

Chapter 9 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: A Propaganda Tool for the Enemy?

Chapter 10 Ordeal of the Union: Allan Nevins, the Civil War Centennial, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s

Chapter 11 Glory, Glory : Hollywood’s Consensus Memory of the American Civil War