Case 3: 1865-1877
Children's magazines and cheap "dime novels" originally intended for an adult audience were published after the war, as were reprints of books first issued during the war. Compared to other eras, few war-theme books were published during the last few years of this period into the early 1880s. War-weary readers turned to subject matter that allowed them to distance themselves from the recent conflict.
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861 - 1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Murray, Gail Schmunk. American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.
Books:1. Headley, P. C. Hero Boy. New York: W. H. Appleton, 1865. Williamson Collection E 672 H434 1865.
Clack, Louise. General Lee and Santa Claus. New York: Blelock
& Co., 1867. Williamson Collection
Myriopticon 1868. Miniature theater operated by turning scroll with
wooden paddles; features hand-tinted images from Harper's Weekly.
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States Civil War Center, LSU Libraries Special Collections, 2002