Joshua Chamberlain & the Civil War

{"id":148376257,"title":"Blessed Boyhood — Chamberlain 1852","handle":"blessed-boyhood-the-early-memoir-of-joshua-lawrence-chamberlain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joshua L. Chamberlain, Class of 1852\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnnotations by Thomas A. Desjardin and David K. Thomson '08; foreword by U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. H\u003cspan\u003e‘07\u003c\/span\u003e; edited by Richard Lindemann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain's early memoir is published in its entirety here for the first time.  In his own words, he recounts his childhood—playing with his siblings, hunting and haying, Sunday socials—coming of age at Bowdoin College and the Bangor Theological Seminary, forming his own family with his wife, Fanny, and closing with his departure from Brunswick, Maine, to combat Southern secession and preserve the Union. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I consider myself a modest student of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain but never knew him so well until reading the pages that follow.  What a revelation—for here are the origins of his extraordinary character, insights into his amazing intellect, and a vivid demonstration of his command of elegant prose....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-07-29T16:40:48-04:00","created_at":"2013-07-26T09:09:19-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Joshua Chamberlain"],"price":1595,"price_min":1595,"price_max":1595,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1595,"compare_at_price_min":1595,"compare_at_price_max":1595,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":338997165,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC027-Chamberlain","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Blessed Boyhood — Chamberlain 1852","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1595,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1595,"inventory_quantity":31,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780916606435","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Blessed Boyhood by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Bowdoin Class of 1852","id":7515996586073,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joshua L. Chamberlain, Class of 1852\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnnotations by Thomas A. Desjardin and David K. Thomson '08; foreword by U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. H\u003cspan\u003e‘07\u003c\/span\u003e; edited by Richard Lindemann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain's early memoir is published in its entirety here for the first time.  In his own words, he recounts his childhood—playing with his siblings, hunting and haying, Sunday socials—coming of age at Bowdoin College and the Bangor Theological Seminary, forming his own family with his wife, Fanny, and closing with his departure from Brunswick, Maine, to combat Southern secession and preserve the Union. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I consider myself a modest student of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain but never knew him so well until reading the pages that follow.  What a revelation—for here are the origins of his extraordinary character, insights into his amazing intellect, and a vivid demonstration of his command of elegant prose....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540769755225,"title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","handle":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-wongsrichanalai-03","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War–era Union. 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Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life or did the war reinforce democratic individualism? 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