Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry

Confederate secession is an extraordinary example of the nineteenth century’s conservative impulses, a failed attempt that still has a great deal to tell us about nationalism and conservatism in the twentieth century as well. Finally, she calls for new histories that more fully account for the war’s international context and interrogate how gendered ideas shaped the era’s politics. Looking for books by Stephanie McCurry See all books authored by Stephanie McCurry, including Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War. Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.

She reminds listeners that while the service of black soldiers in the Union Army was significant, the majority of slaves shaped the outcome of the war from within the Confederacy, where they remained enslaved. Introduced by Joshua Brown of ASHP/CML, Professor McCurry describes how she wrote her latest book, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, to bring the social history of the Confederacy into a historiography that has up until now focused mainly on the Union and viewed the Confederacy primarily in military and political terms. Stephanie McCurry OAH Magazine of History, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 3539, Published: 01 April 2013 Cite Permissions Share Extract I The Confederate war ripped like an earthquake through the foundation of Southern life.

Stephanie McCurry, University of PennsylvaniaĬivil War 150: Did the Real War Ever Get in the Books? Confederate Reckoning, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry contends the South sowed the seeds of its demise in creating a regime that excluded white women and slaves, which together comprised a majority of the population.

Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry