Massachusetts and the Civil War
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abolitionism in the North
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antislavery movement in Massachusetts
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Bay State historical impact
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civic and political engagement in wartime
civic organization and reform movements
Civil War cultural history
Civil War political mobilization
Civil War social dynamics
Civil War-era community networks
Civil War-era state politics
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historical analysis of state influence
historical essays on state impact
homefront and battlefield connections
influence of states in American history
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local and state contributions to Civil War
Massachusetts abolitionist networks
Massachusetts and anti-slavery activism
Massachusetts civil society during war
Massachusetts Civil War history
Massachusetts contributions to the Union
Massachusetts during national emergencies
Massachusetts historical scholarship
Massachusetts political leadership in 1860s
Massachusetts social history during conflict
Massachusetts' role in shaping Union policies
Massachusetts' wartime economy and soc
Northern states and abolitionist leadership
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political unity in crisis
postwar integration and reconciliation
postwar political restructuring
postwar reconciliation efforts
postwar social and political change
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regional identity in wartime America
regional leadership in national conflicts
resistance to slavery
societal recovery after Civil War
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state politics and national identity
state-level historical influence
state-level influence on national unity
Union wartime unification
wartime cohesion and partisanship
wartime governance and policy
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- ISBN 9781625341495
- Weight: 602g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2015
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and the Civil War. The volume's ten essays coalesce around the national significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and even modelled the Union's precarious but real wartime unification, and the Bay State's postwar return to the schisms that predated the war. Rather than attempting to summarize every aspect of the state's contribution to the wartime Union, the collection focuses on what was distinctive about its influence during the great crisis of national unity.
In the first section, “The Opposition to Slavery,” essays by John Stauffer, Dean Grodzins, Peter Wirzbicki, and Richard S. Newman demonstrate the central role Massachusetts played in the rise of both the antislavery movement and abolitionism. They show how slavery's foes united, planned, and understood their cause, and how they envisioned a postwar nation free of servitude. In the second section, “The War Years,” Matthew Mason, Carol Bundy, and Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray investigate how the exigencies of war unified the commonwealth across party lines and over the distance between home and the front. In the final section, “Reconciliation” Sarah J. Purcell, Amy Morsman, and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai probe postwar efforts to recover from the war's profound disruptions.
In the first section, “The Opposition to Slavery,” essays by John Stauffer, Dean Grodzins, Peter Wirzbicki, and Richard S. Newman demonstrate the central role Massachusetts played in the rise of both the antislavery movement and abolitionism. They show how slavery's foes united, planned, and understood their cause, and how they envisioned a postwar nation free of servitude. In the second section, “The War Years,” Matthew Mason, Carol Bundy, and Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray investigate how the exigencies of war unified the commonwealth across party lines and over the distance between home and the front. In the final section, “Reconciliation” Sarah J. Purcell, Amy Morsman, and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai probe postwar efforts to recover from the war's profound disruptions.
Matthew Mason is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, USA.
Kathryn P. Viens is research coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Conrad Edick Wright is Worthington C. Ford Editor and director of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society and author of Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
Kathryn P. Viens is research coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Conrad Edick Wright is Worthington C. Ford Editor and director of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society and author of Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
