Contributors: Michael J. Bennett, Barbara A. Gannon, Michael F. Holt, Harold Holzer, Matthew Isham, Christian B. Keller, Timothy J. Orr, Robert M. Sandow, Andrew L. Slap, Michael T. Smith, Matthew Warshauer, Matthew Warshauer, Karen Fisher Younger
Brings fresh insight to bear on some of the most important topics in the history the American Civil War
Andrew L. Slap is Associate Professor of History at East
Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of
Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
(Fordham University Press, 2006) and editor of Reconstructing
Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (University Press of
Kentucky, 2010).
Michael Thomas Smith is an assistant professor of history at
McNeese State University. He is the coeditor of Letters from a
North Carolina Unionist: John A. Hedrick to Benjamin S. Hedrick,
1862–1865 (North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 2001),
and the author of A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and
the Cost of Dissent (University of Delaware Press, 2003) and The
Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North
(University of Virginia Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in
American Nineteenth Century History, the New England Quarterly, and
other journals.
"An informative and thought-provoking series of essays that plow through new ground, unearth a wealth of new stories garnered by extensive primary source research, and plant new seeds of historical questions into the minds of the reader." Brian Craig Mi ller, Emporia State University "Anyone interested in the Civil War era should savor this book. This Distracted and Anarchical People breaks a lot of new historiographic ground." Michael Green, Community College of Southern Nevada
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