Civil War Stories Claire Flower Slobin has produced an important

Slobin has produced an important and highly readable account of the formation and function of a little-studied aspect of American popular culture

In poems both humorous and elegaic

He discusses just how and why cultural studies evolved

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Civil War Stories Claire Flower Slobin has produced an importantThe Civil War Re Lived in 40 Stories! Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, bringing the victories and defeats, the valor and the heartbreak, alive with personal intensity.