Grand army of labor : workers, veterans, and the meaning of the Civil War /
"From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery u...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Working Class in American History Ser.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2731074 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Second Great Emancipator
- Chapter 1. King Labor: Workers Imagine Emancipation beyond Equality
- Chapter 2. Southern Palm, Northern Pine: Greenbackers and the Reconciliation of Class
- Chapter 3. Against Masters and Money Power: The Knights of Labor and Wage Slavery
- Chapter 4. The Red Flag of Emancipation: Socialism and Revolutionary Memory
- Chapter 5. The Blue-Gray Campaign: Populism and White Reunion
- Chapter 6. Citadel of Labor: The American Federation of Labor and Reformist Memory
- Chapter 7. The Blue and the Gray and the Red: The Rise and Repression of Proletarian Memory
- Epilogue: Resurrecting John Brown's Body
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.