..". agile, ambitious, and complex..." The Journal of Southern History
"Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest by examining the way in which Upland Southerners regional heritage affected the evolution of political culture in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois." Choice
..". not only a political account, but also a cultural survey. The book is clearly written, free of jargon, and makes excellent use of both primary and secondary sources.... an outstanding interpretation of the motives and acts of a significant portion of the population of a significant...
..". agile, ambitious, and complex..." The Journal of Southern History
"Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest b...
Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery that followed. Many free-state Kansans seemed to care little about slaves, and many proslavery Kansans owned not a single slave. But the failed promise of the Kansas-Nebraska Act-when fraud in local elections subverted the settlers' right to choose whether Kansas would be a slave or free...
Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But ...
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction--and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the...
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed pictur...
