Civil War Research Seminar, Keene State College, Spring 2022
The Book, Volume 5
Table of Contents
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Part I. Slavery and Resistance
Chapter 1. Frances Beebe, “The Black Church: The Struggle for African-American Personhood and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America” website
Chapter 2. Courtney M. Chouinard, “The Importance of the Slave Family: Agency and Resilience Against Social Death” website
Chapter 3. Hannah E. Landry, “How Slave Rebellions Led to the Civil War” website
Chapter 4. Kathleen B. McDonough, “The Underground Railroad: Black and White” website
Part II. Great (Dead) White Men
Chapter 5. Dominic M. Lynch, “The Forgotten President: A Look into The Confederacy’s First and Only President, Jefferson Davis” website
Chapter 6. Sayre J. Cronin, “What If Lincoln Lived” website
Part III. Winning a War
Chapter 7. Kiernan A. Alati, “Civil War Political Cartoons: An Editorial Commentary on the Civil War” website
Chapter 8. Bailey A. Buchan, “The Environment and The Civil War: The Unspoken Contributor” website
Chapter 9. Andrew D. Higgins, “Railroads are Not the Reason” website
Chapter 10. Benjamin Nelson-Betz, “The Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment’s Impact on the Union Victory” website
Part IV. Legacies
Chapter 11. Patrick K. Carey, “U.S. Civil War: Illness and Psychological Effects” website
Chapter 12. Adrian J. DuVerger, “War Crimes and Criminals: Defining the Laws of War in 1865” website
Chapter 13. Casandra M. Stoica, “Education and the Civil War” website
Chapter 14. Julianna R. Benducci, “Women’s Suffrage: Before the 19th Amendment” website
Chapter 15. Sabrina S. Gatlin, “Disorder of American Cities in a Post-Civil War Society” website
Chapter 16. Eric T. Silverman, Jr., “Intentional Failure: The Legacy of Reconstruction’s Intentional Failure for African Americans” website
Part V. Memory and Its Uses
Chapter 17. Leopold J. Fleming, “The Performative Nature of Pain: The Cultural Significance in the Behaviors of the Ku Klux Klan” website
Chapter 18. Alexandria E. Holmes, “Memory and Commemoration of the Civil War” website
Chapter 19. Katie A. Richard, “Evaluating the Mythmaking Machine: Hollywood’s Detrimental Effect on Civil War Memory” website