Nicole Etcheson is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Her book A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (2024)won the 2012 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. She received the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Midwestern History from the Midwestern History Association.

• Introduction; 1. From property to white manhood; 2. Making loyalty paramount; 3. Disfranchising traitors; 4. Enfranchising loyal men; 5. Outside the pale of political recognition; 6. Removing disabilities; 7. Not a white man's government; 8. Creating an aristocracy of sex; 9. Redemption; Bibliography; Index.

Nicole Etcheson is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Her book A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (2024)won the 2012 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. She received the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Midwestern History from the Midwestern History Association.

• Introduction; 1. From property to white manhood; 2. Making loyalty paramount; 3. Disfranchising traitors; 4. Enfranchising loyal men; 5. Outside the pale of political recognition; 6. Removing disabilities; 7. Not a white man's government; 8. Creating an aristocracy of sex; 9. Redemption; Bibliography; Index.

Nicole Etcheson is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University. Her book A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (2024)won the 2012 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. She received the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Midwestern History from the Midwestern History Association.

• Introduction; 1. From property to white manhood; 2. Making loyalty paramount; 3. Disfranchising traitors; 4. Enfranchising loyal men; 5. Outside the pale of political recognition; 6. Removing disabilities; 7. Not a white man's government; 8. Creating an aristocracy of sex; 9. Redemption; Bibliography; Index.