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So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Lorien Foote (Editor), Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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“Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).

With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed.

To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life, or reinforce democratic individualism? How did it affect northerners’ conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state? These essays explore myriad topics, including:

*How antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health
*How leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants
*How intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation
*The influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals
*Wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses—and the ideological acrobatics that professors at Midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom
*How northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war

Collectively, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers an in-depth look at this part of the nation’s intellectual history—and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.

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  • "A review that considers 11 outstanding essays cannot possibly do justice to them all. What can be done is to highlight the themes of these well-written, well-researched chapters, with the hope of enticing those intrigued with the Civil War era to buy this book." - Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News Book Reviews
  • "The essays are solidly researched and many are thought-provoking." - Nicole Etcheson, The Journal of Military History
  • "Lorien Foote leads off with a historiographical review of the state of the field, with comments on the other ten essays placed within the larger analysis. This wonderful essay deserves attention on its own, as well as for being an introduction to what is to come. Foote and her fellow coeditor, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, have assembled a superb volume in which the pieces fit together wonderfully. . . . The authors interact with one another implicitly, and on multiple occasions they explicitly engage with other essays in the volume. The mix of senior scholars and more junior authors is excellent. Together they may out some of the ways scholars are rethinking intellectual history in the Civil War era. . . . These essays should produce scores of 'heavily marked' copies for decades to come. . . . This collection does not end the conversation, but it directs it in valuable new directions. . . . this collection is an original and significant contribution." - J. Matthew Gallman, The Journal of the Civil War Era

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The Civil War and Reconstruction has been called the second American revolution, and this fascinating collection reminds us that this era revolutionized American thought and culture. From medicine to education, from perception to memory, So Conceived and So Dedicated opens our eyes and minds to how Americans at the time saw and thought about what the Civil War meant to them.---―Michael Green, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"A study bringing together new work on the Civil War’s impact on intellectual life in the North is long overdue. Foote and Wongsrichanalai have produced one of those rare edited collections: timely, coherent, intellectually satisfying, and filled with field-defining research. It is wonderful to see this topic finally covered in such fascinating and diverse ways.”---―Frances Clarke, University of Sydney

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  1. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

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    Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai is director of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society. He previous taught courses on nineteenth-century American social, gender, and military history at Angelo State University. He co-directed the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded grant, "West Texans and the Experience of War: World War I to the Present."

    Aside from the books listed on this page, he also has essays in Contested Loyalty: Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North, ed. Robert M. Sandow (Fordham University Press 2018), Massachusetts and the Civil War, eds. Matthew Mason, Kate Viens, and Conrad E. Wright (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), and Children and Youth During the Civil War Era, ed. James Marten (New York: New York University Press, January, 2012).

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    William B. Kurtz received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Virginia. He was the digital historian and managing director at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at UVA from 2016 to May 2021. He is a veteran of several digital history projects including Founders Online and People of the Founding Era. His first book, Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America, was released by Fordham University Press in December 2015. You can learn more about his research at his website and blog at www.wkurtz.com.

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