This collection makes a perfect addition to any course on Civil War history or literature as well as courses on popular memory.

The book will be of value to scholars in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, African American literary history, and environmental philosophy.

The "ghastly spectacle": witnessing Civil War death -- Body images: the Civil War dead in visual culture -- Blood and ink: historicizing the Civil War dead -- Plotting mortality: the Civil War dead and the narrative imagination

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead.

Beginning at the start of the Civil War and ending with its aftermath, the site is a history lesson that emphasizes the importance of understanding the ways in which political cartoons contributed to the social and political climate of the ...