The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of the People

Aaron Sheehan-Dean is the Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University and the chairman of the History Department. He teaches courses on nineteenth-century US history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Southern History. He is the author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War (2018), Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (2007), Concise Historical Atlas of the US Civil War (2008), and is the editor of several books.

Part I. Values: 1. Wartime masculinities James J. Broomall; 2. Northern women and the Civil War Nina Silber; 3. Southern women and the Civil War Sarah E. Gardner; 4. Religion in the Civil War era Timothy L. Wesley; 5. Economic and social values in the Civil War Brian P. Luskey; Part II. Social Experience: 6. Families in the Civil War James Marten; 7. Refugees and movement in the Civil War David Silkenat; 8. Citizen soldiers Susannah J. Ural; 9. Immigrant America and the Civil War David T. Gleeson; 10. Emancipation and war Yael A. Sternhell; 11. The black military experience Joseph P. Reidy; 12. Motives and morale Paul A. Cimbala; 13. Urban and rural America in the Civil War Frank Towers; Part III. Outcomes: 14. Making peace Elizabeth R. Varon; 15. Reconstruction during the Civil War Mark Wahlgren Summers; 16. Veterans and the postwar world Barbara A. Gannon; 17. The Civil War and the American state Gregory P. Downs; 18. The Civil War and American law Christian G. Samito; 19. The Civil War in visual art David C. Ward; 20. The Civil War in American thought Peter S. Carmichael; 21. The Civil War in literary memory John Casey; 22. The Civil War in film Craig A. Warren; 23. The Civil War in public memory Caroline E. Janney.