Civil War humor

Civil War humor / Cameron C. Nickels.

Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humour was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations, political cartoons, fiction...

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Main Author: Nickels, Cameron C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
Subjects:
1861-1865
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
HUMOR > General.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
American wit and humor
War and literature
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Humor.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Humor
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Table of Contents:
  • Humor and the Civil War presidents
  • Humor on the home front
  • Civil War, war humor
  • The African American in Civil War humor.

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