The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.

Contains craft and recipe suggestions for family craft activities at Christmas.

Includes over one hundred brief Bible stories from both the Old and New Testaments, with illustrations and some discussion questions.

Learn to preserve your precious family photographs so that friends and loved ones can enjoy them for years to come. Taylor outlines straightforward steps that add value to your home collection, using methods that conservators and photo curators use every day.

History of Ohio County, people and the events. It included business people, lawyers, physicians, and a history of the Taylor family. With "Ohio County marriage records, 1799 to 1840."

This follow-up and review book to Dr. Robert Taylor's highly successful FAMILY MEDICINE: PRINCIPALS AND PRACTICE, will become an indespensible study guide for family practice residents preparing for certification exams, practitioners preparing for recertification and medical students during their family practice clerkship. Complete with over 1,200 questions drawn directly from and keyed to family medicine, this question and answer book will provide an extensive review of all the issues confronted by family practitioners in clinical practice.