Preface, by David Sachsman
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Roy Morris Jr.
Part I: “So This Is the Little Lady Who Made This Big War”
“This Inherited Misfortune”: Gender, Race, and Slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gone with the Wind, by William E. Huntzicker
Beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Lloyd Chiasson, Jr.
The Terror of Poe: Slavery, the Southern Gentleman, and the Status Quo, by Eve Dunbar
John Brown: The Many Faces of a Nineteenth-Century Martyr, by Bernell E. Tripp
The Fugitive Imagination: Robert Penn Warren’s John Brown, by Robert Blakeslee Gilpin
The Search for Community and Justice: Robert Penn Warren, Race Relations, and the Civil War, by Edward J. Blum and Sarah Hardin Blum
Part II: Civil War Witnesses: Between Fiction and Fact
Between Fiction and Fact: Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and Civil War America, by Menahem Blondheim
William Gilmore Simms: A Literary Casualty of the Civil War, by Phebe Davidson and Debra Reddin van Tuyll
Henry Adams’s Civil War: Despair and Democracy, by W. Scott Poole
“So Many, Many Needless Dead”: The Civil War Witness of Ambrose Bierce, by Roy Morris Jr.
Of Saints and Sinners: Religion and the Civil War and Reconstruction Novel, by Edward J. Blum
On Whose Responsibility? The Historical and Literary Underpinnings of The Red Badge of Courage, by Roy Morris Jr.
Part III: “Let the Story Tellers Invent It All”
A Muckraker at Manassas: Upton Sinclair’s Civil War Fiction, by Jessica A. Dorman
Narrative Art and Modernist Sensibility in the Civil War Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by Marcia Noe and Fendall Fulton
“Let the Story Tellers Invent It All”: Col. John S. Mosby in Popular Literature, by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill
Hydra or Heracles? Nathan Bedford Forrest in Civil War Fiction, by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill
Tap Roots and the Free State of Jones, by Nancy Dupont
“Savage Satori”: Fact and Fiction in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, by Paul Ashdown
Part IV: “History with Lightning”
“History with Lightning”: The Legacy of D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, by Phebe Davidson
Hollywood Themes and Southern Myths:
An Analysis of Gone with the Wind, by William E. Huntzicker
Knights in Blue and Butternut: Television’s Civil War, by Paul Ashdown
History Thrice Removed: Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg, by Crompton Burton
“Ain’t Nobody Clean”: Glory! and the Politics of Black Agency, by W. Scott Poole
Alex Haley’s Roots: The Fiction of Fact, by William E. Huntzicker
A Voice of the South: The Transformation of Shelby Foote, by David W. Bulla
Index
Contributors
David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Sachsman is an editor of The Civil War and the Press (2000) and director of the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which he and Kit Rushing founded in 1993. He also is known for his books and articles on environmental communication.
S. Kittrell Rushing is the Frank McDonald Professor of Communication and the head of the Communication Department at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. His current research interests include newspapers of the antebellum and Civil War eras.
Roy Morris Jr. is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of four well-received books on the Civil War and post-Civil War eras. He is currently working on a new book for Smithsonian/HarperCollinson the presidential election of 1860, as well as serving as a special projects editor for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
