Keep the Days
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American Civil War home front
American women's diaries
Author_Steven M. Stowe
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Catherine Edmondston
Civil War and slavery
Civil War diaries
diaries and historical method
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas
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historical empathy
Kate Stone
Lucy Breckinridge
Lucy Rebecca Buck
Mary Boykin Chesnut
nineteenth-century American diaries
Sarah Morgan
Southern women in the Civil War
Southern women's diaries
the Civil War and destruction
the Civil War and gender
the diary as historical source
writing and reading diaries
Product details
- ISBN 9781469640952
- Weight: 825g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world.
In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.
In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.
Steven M. Stowe is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.
