The story of the women of one New Jersey family as they overcame tragedy and navigated the social, political, and economic complexities of post-Civil War Americ

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they

Daughters of the Union casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unl

In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among

The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of