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Although thousands of books and essays have been published about America’s Civil War, none of them has covered the wide range of “lowbrow” images and popular fiction of the period. This two-volume, profusely illustrated study of CIVIL WAR EPHEMERA: (I) Sensational Fact and Fiction, and (II) History’s Rough Drafts, tell the story of how Americans caught up in the chaotic years of war and “Reconstruction” created escapist fiction, rabid propaganda, patriotic and humorous prints and other paper artifacts to help them cope with reality.
In addition to full-color images of rare “dime novels” and popular pamphlets, the book covers in text and images such topics as “vinegar valentines,” patriotic envelopes, stamps and currency, photographs, maps, posters, newspapers, almanacs, magazines, comic papers, playing cards, toys and children’s books, to name a few. And, although hampered by manpower and materiel shortages, the Confederate states also produced a body of distinctive paperback literature.
Rather than standard military/political history, the book explores contemporary civilian attitudes, fears, prejudices and propaganda. It will deal with sensitive topics like Slavery and the Abolition movement. The “Lost Cause” narrative of the postwar decades both created the pro-Confederate monuments that characterized the “Jim Crow” era and shaped the violent reactions to removal of Confederate imagery during the pandemic year of 2020.
The two volumes cover the period from 1850 through about 1915, in other words, the era spanning the Fugitive Slave Act, “Bleeding Kansas,” the break-up of the Union, the Civil War years, Reconstruction and the “Aftermyth of War.”
A major section deals with the publishing and distribution of paperback books and periodicals, with biographies of principal publishers. Special full-color “portfolios” showcase complete series and long runs of colorful dime and nickel novels, as well as specific topics, such as Abraham Lincoln and paperbacks owned by soldiers considerate enough to future historians to inscribe their names and units on their prized dog-eared volumes.
The detective story genre and its companion, the outlaw adventure genre, came to fruition during the postwar years and raised such figures as the “James Boys” to almost cult status. The myth of the “unreconstructed rebel” and “social bandit” who refused to accept military defeat became a powerful cultural icon.
The period between the Spanish-American-Cuban war of 1898 and the U.S. entry into the Great War in 1917 saw an effort at sectional reconciliation that is reflected in the colorful "nickel novels" that made no moral judgements about their youthful protagonists in blue and gray and their respective causes.