The New York Times Disunion : A History of the Civil War.

Cover -- Disunion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Secession -- Introduction -- How Lincoln Undid the Union -- Cup of Wrath and Fire -- The Strange Victory of the Palmetto State -- Learning from Buchanan -- Confederates at the Gate -- How a Map Divided Virginia -- Texas Catches Fire -- The Death Knell of Slavery -- 2. Slavery and Emancipation -- Introduction -- Visualizing Slavery -- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War -- What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves -- William Webb's World -- A Capital under Slavery's Shadow -- Black or White? -- Was Freedom Enough? -- Our Servants Do Pretty Much as They Please -- The Grove of Gladness -- When Freedom Came to Charleston -- 3. Women and the Home Front -- Introduction -- Women at War -- Laugh During Wartime -- The Civil War's Rip Van Winkle -- General Butler and the Women -- Scrapbooking the Civil War -- The Civil War and the Fourth Estate -- Making War on the Draft -- Going to the Fair -- Albert Cashier's Secret -- Blacks, Baseball, and the Civil War -- 4. The Battlefield -- Introduction -- Blue, Gray, and Everything in Between -- The War Comes Home for Lee -- The Boys of War -- The Purchase by Blood -- The Fighting Second -- Winning the Field but Not the War -- Striking the Blow at Fort Wagner -- Life on the Battlefield -- Left Behind at Chickamauga -- Humanity and Hope in a Southern Prison -- How Coffee Fueled the Civil War -- Was the Burning of Columbia a War Crime? -- 5. The West and Native Americans -- Introduction -- The Bear Wars -- Sam Houston, We Have a Problem -- The Choctaw Confederates -- How the West Was Won -- The Lone Star State Turns South -- The Rise of the West -- Jennison's Jayhawkers -- The Cherokee Free Their Slaves -- Becoming Mark Twain -- 6. Law and Rights -- Introduction -- States' Rights, but to What? -- Freedom and Restraint -- The Lieber Code.

Rape and Justice in the Civil War -- Lincoln Answers His Critics -- The Father of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Great Writ, North and South -- The Nashville Experiment -- Lincoln, God, and the Constitution -- How the Civil War Changed the Constitution -- 7. The Confederacy -- Introduction -- A Bad Document's Good Idea -- Hastily Composed -- The President and His General -- The Birth of "Dixie" -- The Drought That Changed the War -- The Free Men of Color Go to War -- Passover in the Confederacy -- Papers, Please! -- Lee Surrendered, but His Lieutenants Kept Fighting -- Confederates in the Jungle -- 8. The Civil War and the World -- Introduction -- Lincoln's Mexican Visitor -- The Other Emancipation Proclamation -- Bully for Garibaldi -- Why Bismarck Loved Lincoln -- Lincoln's PR Coup -- Holland's Plan for America's Slaves -- The Civil War and Hawaii -- The Russians Are Coming! -- Fighting off the Coast of France -- 9. Abraham Lincoln and the Federal Government -- Introduction -- The Sound of Lincoln's Silence -- Seward's Folly -- A Capitol Dilemma -- Andrew Johnson's Difficult Task -- The Do-​Everything Congress -- Lincoln's Letter to the Editor -- The Civil War's War on Fraud -- Counting the Costs of the Civil War -- Rewriting the Gettysburg Address -- The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Salmon P. Chase -- 10. The Consequences of the Civil War -- Introduction -- Remembering the Gettysburg Address -- The Birth of Thanksgiving -- My Civil War -- Teddy Roosevelt's Confederate Uncles -- The Civil War's Environmental Impact -- How the Civil War Created College Football -- How Lincoln Became Our Favorite President -- How Kentucky Became a Confederate State -- Was Abolitionism a Failure? -- How the Civil War Changed the World -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

From 2011 to 2015, the New York Times Op-Ed section hosted the Disunion blog, an online series launched to commemorate the long string of anniversaries over the five-year course of America's most destructive and divisive conflict. Celebrated upon publication for their startling originality and uncanny ability to convey immediacy and inspire fresh thought, the Disunion pieces were an integral part of the Civil War's sesquicentennial celebrations and indeed came to define them. Now, for the first time, the best essays selected from the entirety of the blog are collected in book form, and are presented alongside original introductions. Uniting once again, Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, and Clay Risen have curated a unique and unforgettable history of the Civil War, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.

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