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Christopher Hager is a writer who explores the lives of ordinary Americans through their writing—diaries kept by slaves, letters written by the wives and children of Civil War soldiers, magazine stories by factory workers. His first book, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing, won the 2014 Frederick Douglass Prize for the best ...
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“Lively, polemic, sharply written, and ingeniously...
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Christopher Hager uncovers the worlds of battlefront and home front for ordinary people in one of the most important books ever written on the history of emotions. He finds in the tortured grammar of soldiers and their loved ones the shocks, trauma, fear, and the deadening mundane of war's upheaval.
5 de nov. de 2018 · Christopher Hager uncovers the worlds of battlefront and home front for ordinary people in one of the most important books ever written on the history of emotions. He finds in the tortured grammar of soldiers and their loved ones the shocks, trauma, fear, and the deadening mundane of war's upheaval.
8 de ene. de 2018 · I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only the...
The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free.These unusual texts, composed by people with a unique...
I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters by Christopher Hager (review) Colleen Glenney Boggs; Journal of Southern History; The Southern Historical Association; Volume 85, Number 1, February 2019; pp. 177-178; 10.1353/soh.2019.0033; Review
