Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War
by
Franny Nudelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars...