Reconstructing the Campus David L. Valuska 2012 Winner of the Outstanding

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Reconstructing the Campus David L. Valuska 2012 Winner of the OutstandingThe Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War's immediate and long term impact on higher education, Reconstructing the Campus begins by tracing college communities' responses to the secession crisis and the outbreak of war. Students made supplies