Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. By James Marten. American Childhoods. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. [xii], 209. $26.00, ISBN 1-56663-563-2.)

In Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front, James Marten elaborates the arguments he first put forth in The Children's Civil War (Chapel Hill, 1998) and that are illustrated in his Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines (Wilmington, Del., 1999). Chief among those arguments are that children not only are influenced by the cultural milieu but are important ...

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