Joan Cashin

Ohio State University, History, Faculty Member

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She has a doctorate in American history from Harvard University, and she is the author or editor of seven books, most recently WAR STUFF: THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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Papers by Joan Cashin

The Parson Poet

Routledge, Sep 16, 2016

An introduction to the life of author William Wells Brown, with an emphasis on gender and race in... more

Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters

The Journal of American History, Jun 1, 1988

War Stuff

In the generation before the Civil War, white Southerners of both genders h ad a wealth of useful... more In the generation before the Civil War, white Southerners of both genders h ad a wealth of useful knowledge about the places where they lived. They knew the landscape, the geography, the complicated social relations among its people, and the nuances of local history. In addition, many residents had a set of highly developed skills which were necessary for the functioning of individual households and entire communities. These skills provided human beings with status among their peers, as well as personal satisfaction in the exercise of their talents. In their daily lives, Southerners relied on each other for companionship, fellowship, and assistance in times of trouble. They had their share of confl icts based on class and other issues, but most people from different social backgrounds fostered an ethic of communalism, the notion that they had obligations to one another. 1 In the antebellum years, white Southerners also lived in a world of abundant material resources. They knew how to manage these resourcesfood, timber, and habitat-each of them valuable in a distinctive way, each of them necessary for human survival. This was true throughout the South, despite subregional differences in diet, landscape, and architecture. Most white people valued their material resources, using them for their own well-being and the benefi t of their relatives, friends, and neighbors, whether they were planters, yeomen, attorneys, doctors, editors, ministers, or craftsmen in the rural and small-town South. They were willing to share their resources with each other, too, in the spirit of both obligation and cooperation. This universe of "rude plenty" seemed to provide enough for everybody, according to Letitita Dabney Miller, a judge's daughter. Some white people wasted, abandoned, or misused of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.

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Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870 by Daneen Wardrop (review)

Ohio Valley History, 2016

First Lady of the Confederacy

Harvard University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2008

Davis, Varina Howell (1826-1906), First Lady of the Confederacy

Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 1, 2000

15. At Peace

The Material World of Mary Todd Lincoln

8. Threadbare Great Folks

1. Half Breed

12. The Girdled Tree

Women on the Civil War Battlefront (review)

The Journal of Military History, Oct 23, 2007

never know for sure, of course, how dangerous Copperheads were, but Weber has made us more suspic... more never know for sure, of course, how dangerous Copperheads were, but Weber has made us more suspicious of their power. But something that she has not done suggests the power of stories to propel author and reader along, forgetting to pause for alternate, because more analytical, presentations of the past. Years ago Frank Klement argued that Midwestern Copperheadism formed the genesis of the Granger movement. Nowhere does Weber address this argument. This limitation stands out in an otherwise fine book.

The Material Cultures of the Civil War: A Conversation

Civil War History, 2017

<i>The Civil War in American Culture</i> by Will Kaufman (review)

American Studies, 2010

The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War

The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 2003

Benchmark anthology' Comprehensive study of civilians during the war In The War Was You and Me: C... more Benchmark anthology' Comprehensive study of civilians during the war In The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin has assembled an admirable collection of scholarly articles by professors from all over the United States. Their common goal is to shed light on the impact of the Civil War on civilians, a subject Cashin accurately describes as under-studied during the last decade. For despite the wealth of primary sources written by civilians about their wartime experiences, only Maris Vinoskis, Catherine Clinton, and Nina Silber have published detailed studies of the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of Americans often (but not always) removed from the roar of battle. Vinoskis edited Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays in 1990, while Clinton and Silber edited Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War in 1992. While each book is important in its own way, their relatively narrow focus and the dearth of publications on similar subjects over the last ten years leaves a gaping chasm in the historiography of the Civil War, one which Cashin and her team of writers have begun to finally fill.

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A family venture

12. The Girdled Tree

Varina Davis's Civil War