An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
By Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Includes: Topic Finder, articles, sidebars, photos, maps, chronology, glossary, primary documents, bibliography
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Description: Bringing a fresh, multidisciplinary approach to a critical turning point in American history, this new work focuses on non-military aspects of national life from the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Reflecting the latest scholarship in the field, the more than 300 A-Z articles and essays in this encyclopedia—complemented by a full array of photos, maps, tables, sidebars, primary documents, and an in-depth chronology of events—cover developments in politics, government, and law; economics, industry, and commerce; science, technology, and medicine; family and community life; religion, culture, and the arts. The work illuminates broad themes and day-to-day events from multiple perspectives—Northerners and Southerners, slaves and freedmen; plantation owners and abolitionists; frontier settlers and factory workers; Native Americans, women, children, and immigrant groups.
Contents
Introduction: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction, 1861–1877
A-Z Entries
Primary Documents
Chronology
Glossary
Master Bibliography
A–Z Entries
Abolitionism
Agassiz, Louis
Agriculture
Alaska
Alcott, Louisa May
American Flag
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Anthony, Susan B.
Arizona
Arlington National Cemetery
Armour, Philip Danforth
Art and Architecture
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Bancroft, George
Banking and Finance
Barnum, P.T.
Barton, Clara
Bass, Sam
Baylor, John R.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Benjamin, Judah P.
Bethlehem Steel
Bicycles
Black Codes
Black Communities
Black Kettle
Black Marketing
Black Migration
Blackmore, William Henry
Bloomingdale’s
Booth, John Wilkes
Borden, Gail
Boston, Massachusetts
Bozeman Trail
Brady, Mathew
Brewing
Brown, Olympia
Buffalo
Buffalo Soldiers
Burbank, Luther
Bureau of Agriculture, U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
California
Capitol, U.S.
Captain Jack
Carnegie, Andrew
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Catholicism
Cattle and Livestock
Centennial Celebration, U.S.
Central Pacific Railroad
Cereals and Grains
Charleston, South Carolina
Chase, Salmon P.
Chesnut, Mary
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Fire
Child, Lydia Maria
Children and Childhood
Chisholm Trail
Christian Science
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cinco de Mayo
Citizenship
Civil Rights
Clothes and Fashion
Coal and Coal Mining
Cochise
Colfax, Schuyler
Colleges and Universities
Colorado
Columbia, South Carolina
Comstock Act (1873)
Cooke, Jay
Cook’s Tours
Copperheads
Cornell, Ezra
Cotton
Crazy Horse
Crime and Punishment
Custer, George Armstrong
Dakota Territory
Damien, Father
Davis, Jefferson
Deering-Milliken & Company
Democratic Party
Dentistry
Department of Justice, U.S.
Department Stores
Depression of 1873–1878
Desert Land Act (1877)
Dewey, Melvil
Dickinson, Emily
Diseases and Epidemics
Dix, Dorothea
Dodge City, Kansas
Douglass, Frederick
Draft and Draft Riots
Economy, Business, and Industry
Education
Election of 1860
Election of 1864
Election of 1868
Election of 1872
Election of 1876
Electricity
Emancipation Proclamation
Everett, Edward
Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
Exploration
Family, Community, and Society
Fessenden, William
Fetterman Massacre
Field, Cyrus W.
Fifteenth Amendment
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Commission, U.S.
Food and Food Preservation
Foreign Affairs
Fort System
Forten, Charlotte
Four Corners Region
Fourteenth Amendment
Fraternal Organizations
Freedmen’s Bureau
Frontier Life
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Gas Lighting
Geronimo
Gettysburg Address
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Godey’s Lady’s Book
Gold Rushes
Gold Standard
Goodnight-Loving Trail
Gould, Jay
Grange Movement
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Great Lakes
Greeley, Horace
Habeas Corpus, Suspension of
Hale, Sarah Josepha
Hamlin, Hannibal
Hardin, John Wesley
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper’s Weekly
Harte, Bret
Hawaiian Islands
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Heinz, H.J.
Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill”
Home Economics
Homestead Act (1862)
Horse Breeding
Horse Racing
Hospitals and Asylums
Howard, Oliver Otis
Howe, Julia Ward
Hutterites
Idaho Territory
Immigration
Indian Appropriation Act of 1871
Indian Reservations
Industry and Manufacturing
Internal Revenue Act of 1864
Jacobs, Harriet
James Gang
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jim Crow
Johnson, Andrew
Jones, Mother
Joseph, Chief
Judaism
Kansas
Kemble, Fanny
King, Richard
Knights of the White Camellia
Ku Klux Klan
Labor and Labor Unions
Land-Grant Colleges
Law and Courts
Law Enforcement
Lilly, Eli
Lincoln, Abraham
Literacy
Literature
Little Bighorn, Battle of the
Long Walk of the Navajo
Lowe, Thaddeus
Lumbering
Macy’s
Mail-Order Brides
Mangas Coloradas
Mardi Gras
Marshall Field
Mary Celeste
McClellan, George B.
Medicine and Health
Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867)
Memorial Day
Mennonites
Metric Act of 1866
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Midway Islands
Mining
Minor v. Happersett (1875)
Minting and Currency
Missions and Missionaries
Mississippi River
Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railroad
Molly Maguires
Montana Territory
Montgomery Ward
Mormons
Muir, John
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Music
Nast, Thomas
National Academy of Sciences
National Rifle Association
Native Americans
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico Territory
New York City
Newspapers and Magazines
Nursing
Oil and Oil Industry
Oklahoma Territory
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Oregon
Oregon Trail
Orphans and Orphanages
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Pacifism
Paiute
Panama Canal
Parker, Ely
Parker, Isaac
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photography
Pillsbury, Charles Alfred
Pinkham, Lydia
Plantation System
Politics and Government
Polygamy
Population and Demographics
Port Royal Experiment
Post Office and Postal Service
Poverty and Wealth
Powell, John Wesley
Prisons and Penitentiaries
Pullman, George M.
Quakers
Quantrill, William
Railroad, Transcontinental
Railroads
Ranching
Range Wars
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Acts (1867–1868)
Recreation and Amusements
Red Cloud
Religion
Republican Party
Revels, Hiram
Richmond, Virginia
Roads and Bridges
San Francisco, California
Sand Creek Massacre
Science
Secret Service, U.S.
Seward, William Henry
Sewing Machine
Ships and Shipping
Silver Strikes
Sitting Bull
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Slaves and Slavery
Smith, Sophia
Sojourner Truth
Sports
St. Louis, Missouri
Stagecoach Travel
Standard Oil
Stanford, Leland
Stanton, Edwin M.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Statehood
Steel and Steel Industry
Stephens, Alexander
Stetson, John Batterson
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stewart, Alexander Turney
Stone, Lucy
Strauss, Levi
Stuyvesant, Rutherford
Sumner, Charles
Taney, Roger
Taxes and Tax Law
Technology and Invention
Telegraph and Telephone
Temperance Movement
Texas Rangers
Thanksgiving
Theater
Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
Tilden, Samuel J.
Trade and Tariffs
Treaty of Washington (1871)
Turner, Henry McNeal
Twain, Mark
Tweed, William Magear
Typewriter
Underground Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
Urbanization and City Life
Utah Territory
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Veterans and Veterans’ Affairs
Wade, Benjamin
Waite, Morrison
Washington, D.C.
Washington Territory
Washita Massacre
Weapons
Welles, Gideon
West Virginia
Western Union Telegraph
Wheeler, William A.
Whitman, Walt
Wilmington, Delaware
Wise, Isaac Mayer
Women and Women’s Rights
Woodhull, Victoria
Wyoming Territory
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite Valley
Primary Documents
First Inaugural Address, Jefferson Davis (1861)
The Firing on Fort Sumter, from
A Diary of Dixie, by Mary Boykin Chesnut (1861)
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Song by Julia Ward Howe (1862)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Morrill Land-Grant Act (1862)
Proclamation Suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus (1863)
The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave, Excerpt (1863)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
“Men of Color, To Arms!” Speech by Frederick Douglass (1863)
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln (1863)
“The Wound-Dresser” (1863) and “O Captain! My Captain!” (1865) by Walt Whitman
Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1865)
Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Articles of Surrender, Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
Ex parte Milligan (1866)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
“We Are All Bound Up Together,” Speech by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1866)
First Reconstruction Act (1867)
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
“The Yosemite,” Diary Entry of Visit by John Muir (1869)
“Hold Each Other in True Fellowship,” Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher (1869)
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
Yellowstone Act (1872)
Roughing It, by Mark Twain, Excerpt (1872)
Speech After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election, by Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Minor v. Happersett (1875)
“Intemperance, the Work of the Devil,” Sermon by Dwight L. Moody (1877)
“I Will Fight No More Forever,” Surrender Speech by Chief Joseph (1877)
“We Are Vanishing From the Earth,”
Geronimo’s Story of His Life, Excerpt (1906)
Chronology
Glossary
Master Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Web Sites
