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      The Limits of the Lost Cause

      Gaines M. Foster

      Challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Above all, Gaines Foster's work encourages Americans to confront the new divisions within their…

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      Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920

      Gaines M. Foster

      An examination and analysis of the appetite and avarice that led religious organizations to call for moral legislation to regulate such activities as sexuality, divorce, and gambling. This account underscores…

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      The Demands of Humanity: Army Medical Disaster Relief

      Professor Gaines M Foster (Louisiana State University)

      From the earliest days of the Republic, the United States Army has not just maintained the national defense but has also performed a wide variety of peacetime missions. Army officers…

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      A Rebel’s Recollections

      George Cary Eggleston,Gaines M. Foster

      Originally published in 1875, George Cary Eggleston’s memoir is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author’s experiences in the American Civil War.

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      Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913

      Gaines M. Foster (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Louisiana State University)

      Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners interpreted the Civil War, accepted defeat, and readily embraced reunion and a New…

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      The Enigmatic South: Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

      Paul F. Paskoff,John M. Sacher,Eric H. Walther,Christopher Childers

      Brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments…

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      C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics

      Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy. In this collection of essays, leading historians examine his writings…

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