This Republic of Suffering

This Republic of Suffering
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780375703836

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publsiher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807855731

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Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Southern Stories

Southern Stories
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publsiher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826208657

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Stories were collective, as in the case of the antebellum proslavery argument or Confederate discourses about women. Sometimes they were personal, as in the private writings of figures such as Lizzie Neblett, Mary Chesnut, Thornton Stringfellow, or James Henry Hammond. These men and women regularly employed their pens to create coherence and order amid the tangled circumstances of their particular lives and within a context of social prescriptions and expectations.

A Sacred Circle

A Sacred Circle
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1977
Genre: Intellectuals
ISBN: UOM:39015000112592

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The Creation of Confederate Nationalism

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publsiher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1989-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807116068

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For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the Confederacy were built. She shows the benefits of exploring Confederate nationalism “as the South’s commentary upon itself, as its effort to represent southern culture to the world at large, to history, and perhaps most revealingly, to its own people.”

Confederate Reckoning

Confederate Reckoning
Author: Stephanie McCurry
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674064218

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Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners’ national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people—white women and slaves—and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.

Study Guide

Study Guide
Author: Supersummary
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-09-11
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1692374001

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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 56-page guide for "This Republic of Suffering" by Drew Gilpin Faust includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Sacrifice and Ill-preparedness.

The Last and Greatest Battle

The Last and Greatest Battle
Author: John Bateson
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-01-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780199392346

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Nearly every day an active-duty soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and nearly every hour a veteran does the same. In recent years the problem of military suicides has reached epidemic proportions, but it's all too easy for most of us to gloss over the headlines or tune out the details. In The Last and Greatest Battle--the first book devoted exclusively to the problem of military suicides--John Bateson brings this neglected crisis into the spotlight. Bateson, the former executive director of a nationally certified suicide prevention center, surveys the history of suicide in the United States military from the Civil War to the present day and outlines a plan to save lives-and ultimately end the tragedy of military suicides. He uses the stories of individual soldiers to illuminate the unique challenges faced by American troops today. Transitioning from the front lines to the home front is difficult for many service members, and many need help both during and after their deployments. But even though the military is spending millions of dollars on suicide prevention programs, record numbers of soldiers continue to take their lives. To that end, Bateson outlines a plan of action. If the military works to remove stigma, to make treatment more effective and more accessible, and to limit risk factors for suicide in the first place by taking measures like reducing the number and length of deployments and adjusting pre-deployment training to take into account the way that wars are waged today, an end to the problem of military suicide is as possible as it is essential.