This Republic of Suffering

This Republic of Suffering

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-01-08

Type: BOOK

In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God.

This Republic of Suffering

This Republic of Suffering

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05

Type: BOOK

Explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Faust describes how a religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.

Study Guide

Study Guide

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-11

Type: BOOK

This 56-page guide for "This Republic of Suffering" by Drew Gilpin Faust includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis.

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-01-26

Type: BOOK

In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative.

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1989-12-01

Type: BOOK

In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and ...

Gone to God

Gone to God

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-01

Type: BOOK

This book is a microcosm of that study, examining how one family dealt with loss and remembrance.

The Last and Greatest Battle

The Last and Greatest Battle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-02

Type: BOOK

Faust, This Republic of Suffering, xii, 149. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 38. 39. 40. 41. Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, 55. Faust, This Republic of Suffering, 69. David T. Hedrick and Gordon Barry, ...

The War That Forged a Nation

The War That Forged a Nation

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-02-12

Type: BOOK

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country, 38. Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York, 2008), 6–7. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country, ...

Necessary Trouble

Necessary Trouble

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2023-08-22

Type: BOOK

Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today.