The Imagined Civil War

In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War — the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children’s stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of th