TY - BOOK AU - Selcer,Richard F. TI - Civil War America, 1850 to 1875 SN - 0816038678 (alk. paper) U1 - 973.6 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Facts On File KW - Almanacs, American N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-498) and index; Climate, natural history, and historical geography -- Disasters, natural and human-made -- Native American life -- Chronology, 1850-1875 -- The economy -- Transportation -- Population -- Religion -- Government and politics -- The Civil War -- States and territories -- Major cities -- Representative Americans -- Education -- Arts, letters, music, and theater -- Architecture and design -- Science and technology -- Medicine and psychiatry -- Popular culture -- Crime, vice, and violence -- Selected documents N2 - "Covers American history during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Numerous statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations reveal the diverse aspects of everyday life in Civil War America - from record-keeping and the gathering of statistics to the overhaul of the nation's financial structure." ER -