Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War, by Shirley Samuels. Oxford, March 2004. $49.95

This short but densely packed study offers both the investigative range and the headaches one usually associates with longer books. Samuels sets out to examine shifting understandings and representations of racial, gender, and national identities in the years surrounding the American Civil War. To do so, she draws on a diverse array of sources ranging from obscure novels and political cartoons to photographs, presidential speeches, and a multivolume study of Civil War disease and treatment published ...

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