The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823232034 ISBN 13: 9780823232031

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war’s end. In doing so, it shows that “the war” did not actually end with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining “freedom”; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing a
new party system; and determining the scope and meanings of “union.”

About this title

About the Authors

Paul A. Cimbala is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller, he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Randall M. Miller is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, religion, and politics. Among his Civil War–related books are, as co-editor, Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation; and Women and the American Civil War: North–South Counterpoints.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823232034
• ISBN 13: 9780823232031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Cimbala Paul A., Miller Randall M.