Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing (editor)
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Emily Dickinson, “The Heart is the Capital of the Mind,” J1354/F1384, reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Part One: Sleighing in New York, Thomas Benecke. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-pga-03406.
Part Two: Bodies of Confederate Artillerymen near Dunker Church, Alexander Gardner. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-ppmsca-32887.
Part Three: Massacre of the Innocents, Thomas Nast (March 30, 1867), pp. 200–201. Courtesy of HarpWeek.
Let Us Clasp Our Hands Over the Bloody Chasm, Thomas Nast (September 21, 1872), p. 732. Courtesy of HarpWeek.
FIRST EDITION
Wineapple, Brenda.
Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848–1877 / Brenda Wineapple.—First edition.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-06-123457-6
1. United States—History—1849–1877. 2. Slavery—United States—History—19th century. 3. Antislavery movements—United States—History—19th century. 4. United States—Territorial expansion—History—19th century. 5. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Causes. 6. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 7. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877) I. Title.
E415.7.W75 2013
973.6—dc23
2012051538
EPUB Edition AUGUST 2013 ISBN 9780062278807
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