Civil War Washington : history, place, and digital scholarship / / edited by Susan C. Lawrence

• Pubblicazione: [Lincoln, Nebraska] ; ; [London, England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.3/02
• Soggetto geografico: Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865; Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Computer network resources
• Persona (resp. second.): LawrenceSusan C.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Civil War Washington: the city and the site / Susan C. Lawrence, Elizabeth Lorang, Brett Barney, and Kenneth M. Price -- Developing Civil War Washington / Katherine L. Walter, Elizabeth Lorang, Stacy Rickel, and Karin Dalziel -- Historical geography, GIS, and Civil War Washington / Rob Shepard -- Emancipation in the District of Columbia / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Mining the compensated emancipation petitions / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Military hospitals in the Department of Washington / Susan C. Lawrence -- Reading Civil War medical cases / Susan C. Lawrence -- Poetry, Washington DC's hospital newspapers, and the Civil War / Elizabeth Lorang -- Walt Whitman in Civil War Washington / Kenneth M. Price.
• Sommario/riassunto: While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation's capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal government's experiment in compensated emancipation, which went into effect when all of the capital's slaves were freed in April 1862. Another essay explores the city's place as a major center of military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other contributors refle
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil War Washington
• ISBN: 0-8032-6991-9; 0-8032-6993-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811796003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II