Civil War anthology

The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology bookcoverIan Finseth, associate professor of English, edited the second edition of The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology (Routledge). The book brings together different genres of writing, along with annotations and historical commentary, from that era.

Finseth says he put together the first edition, which came out in 2006, when he couldn't find such a book for a course he was teaching on Civil War literature.

"One of the remarkable things about Civil War literature is how many different people wrote about the conflict, from so many different social perspectives," Finseth says. "And I wanted the anthology to reflect that."

 

 

 

 

 

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