13. The Union Homefront

Questions:
1. With what justice was Lincoln accused by his northern opponents of acting dictatorially?
2. What changes did the civil war bring to the lives of Union women?
3. What were the causes and consequences of the draft riots of 1863?

Joan E. Cashin, “Deserters, civilians and draft resistance in the North,” in The war was you and me: civilians in the American Civil War
J. Matthew Gallman, “Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia’s Great Central Fair” from Maris A. Vinovskis, ed., Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Iver Bernstein, “The Two Tempers of Draco,” from The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Heather Cox Richardson, “‘The Cares of Your Country Are a Paramount Duty’: The Republicans in 1861” from The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Mark E. Neely, Jr. “Lincoln and the Constitution,” from The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Herman Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998)
Allan G. Bogue, “Lincoln and the ‘disorderly schoolboys’: a chapter in executive-legislative relations” from The Congressman’s Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
J. Matthew Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War: the Home front (1994)
Jeanie Attie, “Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North,” in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds, Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992), pp. 247-159.
Earl J. Hess, Liberty, Virtue and Progress: Northerners and their war for the Union (1989)
Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 (1990)
Wendy Hamand Venet, “The Emergence of a Suffragist: Mary Livermore, Civil War Activism, and the Moral Power of Women,” Civil War History 48.2 (2002)

Primary sources:
Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds. The Diary of George Templeton Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1952)
Nina Silber and Mary Beth Sievens, eds, Yankee Correspondence : Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers and the Home Front (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996)
Harper's Weekly Illustration of the New York City Draft Riots
Harper's Weekly Illustration of lynching during draft riots