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Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West, Empire and Liberty brings leading historians together to examine artifacts, objects, and artworks that illuminate this period of national expansion, conflict, and renewal.
Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Virginia Scharff 1. The Price of Slavery across Empire: Family, Community, and Loss in Texas - Brenda E. Stevenson 2. The Fremonts: Agents of Empire, Legends of Liberty - John Mack Faragher 3. Beecher's Bibles and Broadswords: Paving the Way for the Civil War in the West, 1854--1859 - Jonathan Earle 4. Liberty, Empire, and Civil War in the American West - Durwood Ball 5. When the Stars Fell from the Sky: The Cherokee Nation and Autonomy in the Civil War - Kent Blansett 6. On the Edge of Empires, Republics, and Identities: De la Guerra's Sword of the War and the California Native Cavalry - Daniel Lynch 7. John Gast's American Progress: Using Manifest Destiny to Forget the Civil War and Reconstruction - Adam Arenson 8. Empire and Liberty in the Middle of Nowhere - Virginia Scharff 9. The Not-So-Free Labor in the American Southwest - Maria E. Montoya 10. After Antietam: Memory and Memorabilia in the Far West - William Deverell 11. "You Brought History Alive for Us": Reflections on the Lives of Nineteenth-Century Dine Women - Jennifer Denetdale List of Contributors Index



