Chapter · January 1, 2023
The history of southern women in the Civil War remains white-centered, mirroring wartime and postwar accounts that placed white women at the forefront of the battle for the home front. The politics of the “radical” women of Gonzalez, Texas, like the politi ...
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Book · November 27, 2019
—DaviD W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass:
Prophet of Freedom “In the burgeoning literature on women and the Civil War,
The Women's Fight is unique both because of the scope of its argument and the
depth ... ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era · January 2015
What follows is a written reproduction of a forum held at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's
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Book · January 1, 2003
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This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless v ...
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