" A very clear and forcefully argued treatment of the drive for cultural independence in the Confederacy. It is based on exhaustive study of periodicals, pamphlets, and all kinds of …
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific …
Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the …
After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street …
Eastern collective remembrances of the American Civil War have dominated discussions of the war's causes and consequences. The West was located far from major Civil War …
AF Lang - Journal of the Civil War Era, 2019 - JSTOR
When I received the advance copy of In the Wake of War in late 2017, I scarcely imagined standing here tonight to accept the Tom Watson Brown Award. This honor will long rank …
The elaborate sanitary fairs staged in the United States from 1863 to 1865 to raise money for Union troops during the Civil War did much more than captivate the country. These grand …
PJ Downe - Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research …, 2007 - jarm.journals.yorku.ca
Women in a fast-growing and underserved urban community in Barbados resist the increasing denigration of young motherhood by sharing stories of the young slave mothers …
LR Peterson - Civil War History, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
While visiting Gettysburg National Military Park in 1899, a small group of the Iowa Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) broke away from its delegation to visit the home and gravesite of Mary …