Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

As Northern civilians struggled to understand their role in the Civil War that was being fought hundreds of miles away, popular culture churned out articles, cartoons, and stories on wartime duty and citizenship. In Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front, J. Matthew Gallman ’79 examines how thousands of authors, artists, and readers created a new set of rules for navigating life in a nation at war. Gallman is a professor of history at the University of Florida.