Introduction : the Civil War as a household war / Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites
The material world of Mary Todd Lincoln : her households in peace and war / Joan E. Cashin
Householder and general : Lee's war as a household war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
The divided houses of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson
The soldier's dream of home / Jonathan W. White
"Now I can bear my ills patiently" : the expanding realm of Wisconsin households during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic
Written on the heart : soldiers' letters, the household supply line, and the relational war / LeeAnn Whites
A "fearful family quarrel" : the Union assault on southern households as battle strategy / Lisa Tendrich Frank
War's domestic corollary : Union occupation households in the Civil War South / Margaret Storey
Creek and Seminole households on the trail of blood on ice / Andrew K. Frank
"A terrible way to bring up children" : escaped prisoners and the home as site of war / Lorien Foote
Disordered households : Reconstruction, Klan terror, and the law / Victoria E. Bynum
Dead husband, dead son : widows, mothers-in-law, and mourning in the Confederacy / Angela Esco Elder
Stand by your manhood : the United Confederate veterans and the rehabilitation of the Southern household / Brian Craig Miller
Afterword : from household to personhood in America / Stephen Berry.