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The Civil War.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Women in the American Civil War, 2 vols.)(Book review)
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Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's StudiesResources
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December 22, 2008
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- Phelps, Connie L.
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed., WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 631 p. 2 vols. $195.00, ISBN 978-1-85109-600-8; e-book (contact publisher for price), ISBN 978-1-85109-605-3. (Print edition reviewed.)
It is largely in the past thirty years that scholars have begun to look at the effect of the Civil War on women and at the roles women played in the war. Publications on the topic have increased in frequency in recent years. This new reference from ABC-CLIO endeavors to reflect "the growing and increasingly sophisticated literature...that demonstrates the need to acknowledge women's central roles in pursuing the war and in determining its outcome" ...
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Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography.(CIVIL...
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources;
March 22, 2004 ;
Gotlieb, Melissa;
628 words
......WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY...roles women played in the Civil War effort, Theresa McDevitt's Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography...objectives in compiling these entries is to dispel the myth that Civil War ...
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Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia.(CIVIL WAR)(Book Review)
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources;
March 22, 2004 ;
Fernandez, Teresa;
474 words
......reviewing an insightful resource on women in the Civil War era. Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia covers more than just women participating...merits of two other reference books on women and the Civil War: They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil ...
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The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories
South Carolina Historical Magazine;
January 1, 2006 ;
Michot, Stephen S;
787 words
...The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories. Edited...164; $32.50, cloth.) The American Civil War continues to be one of the most...book in an attempt to gratify the Civil War enthusiast. The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories is...yet readable, articles ...
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Civil War Preservation Trust Announces Rules for New, All Digital...
U.S. Newswire;
June 3, 2008 ;
442 words
......This summer, the Civil War Preservation Trust...and the Center for Civil War Photography (CCWP...appreciation of Americas rich Civil War heritage. For the first time, all entries to the popular, long-runni...photographers can submit Civil War-related photos ...
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Civil War history comes alive at Shady Side event
Capital (Annapolis);
August 15, 2005 ;
VANESSA FRANKO Staff Writer;
658 words
......Underground Railroad yesterday at Civil War Living History Day at the...show up were dozens of Civil War re-enactors in wool uniforms...residents are involved in Civil War re-enactments. "There's no place for Civil War enthusiasts to come, and...Giovannini said. He said ...
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Any entry into civil war needs analysis beforehand
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;
August 27, 2003 ;
259 words
......in war has been one of invasion versus civil war. World War I and World War II were wars...invading another group of states. In a civil war, the focus is limited and sharp. Any...the nation. The situation in Iraq is a civil war. The difference is that the United States...
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NEW ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY HISTORY PROFESSOR PUBLISHES CIVIL WAR BOOK
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
October 19, 2006 ;
307 words
......Contested Borderland, a book of Civil War history, has been published...Kentucky and subtitled "The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky...generally overlooked by Civil War historians. McKnight said...explores this aspect of the Civil War through the public ...
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The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History;
May 1, 2006 ;
Miller, Mark F.;
470 words
...The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources. Edited...supplemental reader in undergraduate Civil War courses. The editors speak directly...ideas as students rediscover the Civil War (p. xxiii). The editors explain...robust and comprehensive array of Civil War topics ...
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The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources
The Journal of Southern History;
May 1, 2006 ;
Miller, Mark F;
474 words
...The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources. Edited...supplemental reader in undergraduate Civil War courses. The editors speak directly...ideas" as students rediscover the Civil War (p. xxiii). The editors explain...robust and comprehensive array of Civil War topics ...
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The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer,...
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society;
July 1, 2002 ;
Gannon, B Anthony;
735 words
...The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer...reflection and thought, and the Civil War, America's great apocalypse, is...wonderfully-edited version of the Civil War journal of the Reverend Francis...success after the war. During the Civil War, ...
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Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union & Slavery in the...
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society;
October 1, 2000 ;
Neely, Mark E Jr;
787 words
......in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. By Howard Jones. (Lincoln...the study of the American Civil War, it is diplomatic history...classic Why the North Won the Civil War included as one of its...By contrast, Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand...in 1998, surveys ...
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Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;
January 1, 1999 ;
Fahlman, Betsy;
787 words
...Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. By KATHRYN ALLAMONG...conflicts. That there are more monuments to the Civil War in the nation's capital than to any other single...most recent dedication in 1997 (African-American Civil War Memorial: Spirit of Freedom), the ...
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Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles,...
South Carolina Historical Magazine;
January 1, 2002 ;
Sinisi, Kyle S;
474 words
......literature that is Civil War historiography...there are 596 entries scoured from...journals and Civil War publications. The roster of entries is impressive...total number of entries, but an interested...Garold Cole's Civil War Eyewitnesses...
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Following Civil War soldiers
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
July 2, 2003 ;
JUSTIN BERGMAN;
663 words
...Following Civil War soldiers Virginia park a...you have gone through the Civil War," said Robert B. Pamplin...plush National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Choosing a real...the soldier's actual diary entries and letters through a CD...or dies. More than 3,000 Civil ...
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Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, and Civil War Letters of Orlando...
Journal of Southern History;
August 1, 2001 ;
WATSON, SAMUEL J.;
787 words
......Memoirs, Journals, and Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox...the largest collection of Civil War papers to surface in half...across the antebellum and Civil War eras. Yet the book is not for Civil War scholars alone. It is a...almost entirely from the Civil ...
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