Description
Home Front: Day by day Life in the Civil War North reveals this side of the war as it happened, comprehensively examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Through contributions from leading scholars from across the humanities, we discover how the war influenced household economies and the cotton economy; how the absence of young men from the house changed Day by day life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians at the frontier were pushed out of the riven nation’s consciousness all over the war years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nation’s past, present, and future.
A companion volume to a collaborative exhibition organized by the Newberry Library and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Home Front is the first book to expose the visual culture of a world far got rid of from the horror of war yet intimately bound to it.