This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist) (Vintage Civil War Library)
Drew Gilpin Faust explores how the immense death toll of the American Civil War reshaped the nation. Examining mourning, sacrifice, citizenship, and national purpose, this historical study reveals how wartime loss transformed American culture and public life.
About This Book
Drew Gilpin Faust examines death as a defining experience of the American Civil War.
The book considers how unprecedented wartime loss shaped ideas about mourning, sacrifice, citizenship, and national purpose.
It connects the realities of mass death with broader changes in American culture and public life.
This work offers a focused historical account of the Civil War’s lasting influence on the nation’s relationship with death.
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