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Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War Edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson, Southern Illinois University Press Ever since Philip Shaw Paludan made home-front studies a viable genre in Civil War historiography, monographs and anthologies have focused on regions, states, gender, ethnicity, families, the economy and social change. The editors of …
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