Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War

From: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Schantz, Mark S | Copyright information

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War. By Shirley Samuels. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp xii, 186. Acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.)

This book is by turns intriguing and inscrutable. Facing America is provocative for its suggestion that during the middle of the nineteenth century the image of America underwent a profound shift in its gender. The post-Revolutionary female image of America as the figure "Columbia" wa...

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