In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and
offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male …

The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and
Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union …

A sweeping review of the role of women within the American military from the colonial period
to the present day. In America, the achievements, defeats, and glory of war are traditionally …

The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of
the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness …

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses,
romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men …

During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female
charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would …

Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War analyzes the strategies of
female physicians, nurses, and women-at-arms who linked military service with the …

The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the US Military is the first examination of the
interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States …

While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job
to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities …

This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the
American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (aka Private Lyons Wakeman …