Gaines M Foster: 3 books
Moral Reconstruction
Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force...
Ghosts of the Confederacy
Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1987
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals...
The Enigmatic South
Toward Civil War and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Enigmatic South 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 of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American...