Reconfiguring the Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Reconfiguring the Unions: A Long History of Civil War Transformations

   • Iwan W. Morgan

   Pages 1-20

3. Lincoln and Emancipation: The Lessons of the Letter to Horace Greeley

   • Richard Carwardine

   Pages 21-40

4. Conservatism, Transformation, and the War for the Union

   • Adam I. P. Smith

   Pages 41-57

5. Freedpeople, Politics, and the State in Civil War America

   • Erik Mathisen

   Pages 59-76

6. The Military Significance of the 1864 Presidential Election

   • Brian Holden Reid

   Pages 77-99

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

   • Andrew Heath

   Pages 101-123

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

   • Matthew Shaw

   Pages 125-141

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

   • David T. Gleeson

   Pages 143-161

10. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: A Propaganda Tool for the Enemy?

    • Amanda Foreman

    Pages 163-179

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

    • Robert Cook

    Pages 181-200

12. Glory, Glory : Hollywood’s Consensus Memory of the American Civil War

    • Jenny Barrett

    Pages 201-219

13. Back Matter

    Pages 221-228

    PDF

From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, the rights of citizenship, and the political balance between the union's various sections. It further considers the effect of the war on international and transnational perceptions of the United States. Finally, it considers how historical memory has shaped the legacy of the Civil War in the last 150 years.

• civil rights
• Civil war
• conflict
• democracy
• Lincoln, Abraham
• transformation

To come

Iwan W. Morgan, University College London, UK Philip John Davies, British Library, UK Adam Smith, University College London, UK Richard Carwardine, University of Oxford, UK Erik Mathisen, University of Portsmouth, UK Brian Holden Reid, Kings College London., UK Andrew Heath, University of Sheffield, UK Matthew Shaw, British Library, UK David Gleason, Northumbria University, UK Amanda Foreman, historian, writer, and broadcaster Robert Cook, University of Sussex, UK Jenny Barrett, Edge Hill University, UK

Policies and ethics