| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.2

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An Uncommon Time The Civil War and the Northern Home Front

Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

(New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 362. Notes, tables, index. $45.00.)

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments

Edited by Paul M. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

(New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 508. Notes, tables, index. Clothbound, $50.00; paperbound, $25.00.)


In these two ample essay collections Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller bring together a substantive new array of sources on the Civil War, supplementing a growing series on the North published by Fordham. If the collections are a bit uneven, each essay is well researched and thoughtful, drawing on multiple traditions of historical research, from political to social to cultural, as well as on varying sources of evidence ranging from advertisements to letters, newspapers, diaries, and memoirs.	1
While the title of An Uncommon Time stresses the idea of the Civil War as a decided break from the past, the essays themselves suggest both continuity and change. In her fine piece, "A Monstrous Doctrine? Northern Women on Dependency during the Civil War," Rachel Seidman argues that women not only used the well-established ideal of women's economic and emotional dependency on men for the greater good of their families (to argue that their men be released from service, for example), but that they also resisted it in new and old ways, through petitions, strikes and unions.	. . .

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