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New Perspectives on the Union War

By Gary W. Gallagher & Elizabeth R. Varon &
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Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of what “Union” meant in the Civil War North by exploring how various groups of northerners conceived of the term. The essays in this volume demonstrate that while there was a broad consensus that the war was fought, or should be fought, for the cause of Union, there was bitter disagreement over how to define that cause—debate not only between political camps but also within them. The chapters touch on economics, politics, culture, military affairs, ethnicity, and questions relating to just war.

Contributors: Michael T. Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck, Jack Furniss, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter C. Luebke, and Tamika Nunley

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About Gary W. Gallagher

Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Union War.

Elizabeth R. Varon

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous books, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War.

Michael Caires

Michael T. Caires, a research associate at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Greenback Union: The Transformation of Money, Capitalism, and the State in the American Civil War (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).

Jack Furniss

Jack Furniss earned his doctorate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and holds a Bradley Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Nau Center and a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow appointment at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford.

Gary W. Gallagher

Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Union War.

Jesse George-Nichol

Jesse George-Nichol is a graduate student in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.

William B. Kurtz

William B. Kurtz is managing director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia and author of Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (Fordham University Press, 2015).

Peter Luebke

Peter C. Luebke is a historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command and editor of The Story of a Thousand: Being a History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, from August 21, 1862, to June 6, 1865 (Kent State University Press, 2011)

Tamika Nunley

Tamika Y. Nunley is an assistant professor of History at Oberlin College.

Elizabeth R. Varon

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous books, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War.

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