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A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era

By (author) Sarah Jones Weicksel

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During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienced its cost. Through the clothes they made, wore, mended, lost, and stole, Americans expressed their allegiances, showed their love, confronted their social and economic challenges, subverted expectations, and, ultimately, preserved their history. As collections left behind make clear, Civil War Americans believed clothing was not merely a reflection of one’s class, gender, race, military rank, political ideology, or taste. Instead, from the weave of a fabric to the style and make of a coat, Northerners and Southerners alike understood that clothing had the power to affect people’s way of living through the war’s tumult. In this compelling and well-illustrated history, Sarah Jones Weicksel reveals as never before the meanings of clothing to Civil War Americans. Contributing to the growing body of scholarship on the material culture of the Civil War, Weicksel invites readers to understand the depth of how war penetrated daily life by focusing on the intimate, visceral, material experiences that shaped how people moved through the world.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press
Published date | 31 Jan 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 368
Dimensions | 235 x 25 x 155mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4696-8914-2
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BISAC | history / united states / civil war period (1850-1877)
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