Table of Contents:
  • Voluntarism in wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair
  • Preserving the peace: order and disorder in Civil War Philadelphia
  • Gettysburg's Gettysburg: what the battle did to the borough (with Susan Baker)
  • Urban history and the American Civil War
  • The Civil War economy: a modern view (with Stanley L. Engerman)
  • Entrepreneurial experiences in the Civil War: evidence from Philadelphia
  • An inspiration to work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, public orator
  • Anna Dickinson, America's Joan of Arc: public discourse and gendered rhetoric during the Civil War
  • "Touched with fire?": two Philadelphia novelists remember the Civil War
  • Is the war ended? Anna Dickinson and the election of 1872
  • "In your hands that musket means liberty": African American soliders and the Battle of Olustee.