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Civil War Wives

By Carol Berkin

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2009
ISBN
9780307272935, 2009019476
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3976138 bytes)
Series
Vintage Civil War Library
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 16:32:30
HIS036050HIS058000HistoryNonfictionSOC028000SociologyWomen's Studies

Description

In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day.  Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.

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