...Examines the psychological impact of the Civil War on Confederate soldiers who suffered debilitating psychological and emotional wounds that sometimes resulted in institutionalization in insane asylums, or in suicidal behavior. Historians have not focused on Civil War participants as victims of war...

... the added demands of war unbearable and too demanding, leading some to succumb to mental illness that sometimes led to institutionalization in insane asylums, and suicidal ideation or behavior. The most vulnerable women on the homefront were young mothers and widows who bore the heaviest burdens when...

... and relationships, racial violence and abuse. Many freed African Americans struggled emotionally and psychologically under the new conditions of emancipation and entered insane asylums or became suicidal. Despite increasing numbers of black patients in asylums and a purported ‘rise in insanity’ among blacks...

...This chapter surveys the long nineteenth century with an eye toward assessing how suffering and suicidal activity during the Civil War ushered in cultural and religious changes in ideas about suicide and the importance of those changes in laying groundwork for a new Confederate identity...

...This chapter examines the prisoner practices of self-harm at Guantánamo, including suicide attempts and hunger strikes, as well as the efforts of the camp administration to forcibly keep the prisoners’ bodies alive via force-feeding and suicide restraints. It reads detainee testimonies, including...

... as a prostitute. By the time Starr entered prison, she had already attempted suicide twice. In claiming that she “saw no way out” of the life that she was living and that imprisonment enabled her to “grow up,” Starr highlights the gaping holes in our social safety net and the depth of our social problems...

...This chapter presents excerpts from the proceedings against Ildefonso Carabali, a slave owned by Don Diego Francisco de Unzaga, for attempted suicide. A female neighbor complained that the slave Carabali had molested her little black chinita, which made her fear dire consequences...

... withdrew from solidarity work. Chapter ten ends with her suicide on 11 October 1977. —in exile Comité Chileno de Solidaridad con la Resistencia Antifascista Cuba National Coordinating Center in Solidarity with Chile NCCSC NCCSC National Coordinating Center in Solidarity with Chile resistance...

...This chapter discusses Professor Ralph Graves's suicide in 1889, which sent the community at the University of North Carolina into mourning. Born in 1851, Graves had grown up on campus, where his father had taught and where his great-grandfather had served as the school's first steward. Graves...

...This chapter shows how the Civil War fundamentally reoriented how white and black North Carolinians understood suicide. The Civil War, at least at a certain level, also effected some change in the frequency of suicide. The purpose of the chapter, therefore, is to present a series of hypotheses...

... along on their march toward Parliament, where a rally is held. Idle No More Chief Theresa Spence Metis Journey of Nishiyuu Whapmagoostui Quebec aboriginal rights U.S. Canada Border native sovereignty First Nations Indian suicide Winter settles over the North Country, slicking the roads...

... and country life, and Edward Alsworth Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, it shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition...

...From Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda and George H. Maxwell's homecroft movement, to Edward Alsworth Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control, Florence Sherbon's eugenics campaign for “fitter families” and Theodore Roosevelt's advocacy of country life...

...Suicide among the enslaved has been well documented, with most historians arguing that slave suicides were evidence of resistance. Adopting a ‘neo-abolitionist’ approach, this chapter, building on the exposes of abolitionists who wrote about slave suicides, takes seriously the individual reasons...

... status in the home and in their communities. The most severe cases of veterans suffering the effects of war trauma entered insane asylums with symptoms today we know to be associated with PTSD: violence, paranoia, startle reflex, depression, anxiety, alcoholism or addiction, suicidal thoughts or behavior...

...White men, veterans and non-veterans alike, faced financial ruin and political emasculation in the postwar South. With the southern economy in shambles, men faced business failures and joblessness. The resulting ‘pecuniary embarrassment’ drove some to suicide. Men’s identities were closely tied...

... hardship and frequently resulted in mental illness requiring institutionalization, substance abuse, or in suicidal ideation or behavior. business failure postwar “Confederate angel ” myth of Confederate women postwar Eggleston George Cary Lost Cause myth Reconstruction Butler Matthew C McCurry...

...Suicide, by late nineteenth century, had transformed from a shameful, sinful act to one of sacrifice and courage. The most famous suicide of the Civil War, that of Edmund Ruffin, shows this evolution in attitudes about suicide. Ruffin’s suicide is venerated in Lost Cause literature as an act...

...Aberration of Mind is a social history of suicide in the American South during the Civil War era. The book casts a wide net, focusing on Confederate soldiers and veterans and their families, and the enslaved and newly freed. The central question is, how did the Civil War...

...During the wait on Joy's baby, Lovie and the narrator learn that Lovie's ex-son-in-law has shot and killed himself after killing his second wife, a murder-suicide that is eclipsed by the news that same day of race car driver Dale Earnhardt’s death. The deaths, which take place just down the road...