Thanks to those members who renewed their memberships! Welcome to
all new members!
Thanks to those members who renewed their memberships! Welcome to
all new members!
SWCW Announces Details of the
9th Conference on Women and the Civil War
The 9th Conference on Women and the Civil War will
take place at the Inn at Chester Springs the July 27-29, 2007. In addition to offering an exciting lineup of
speakers, fascinating talks, and a return of
the “Midnight Madness” speed shopping event from 2006, the conference
will also feature a field trip to a 19th century spa and resort site
that was used as Soldiers’ Orphans Home after the Civil War. The Society is please that they have been
able to hold prices to the conference to the same levels as in past years, with
full conference (including workshops, lectures, meals and the field trip)
priced as low as $195 for Society members who register by May 1st.
Mark Your Calendar and Plan to Come
Conference attendees are encouraged to stay in affordable
luxury at the Inn at Chester Springs.
Our conference rate of $99 is valid for two days before and just after
the conference to accommodate registrants who decided to vacation in the area.
The hotel features indoor and outdoor
pools, newly renovated lobby, conference area and rooms, an award winning
restaurant, and a convenient setting just 35 miles from center-city
Philadelphia. The guestrooms have data
ports on all telephones, wireless Internet access and well-illuminated work
spaces.
Make Your Reservations Today!
Phone:
610-363-1100; 888-253-6119
Email: hotel_info@innatchestersprings.com
Call soon– and certainly by 6/27 – to ensure you get into our block
of rooms.
Location: Inn at
Chester Springs
815 N. Pottstown Pike
Exton, PA 19341
By Car - The Inn
at Chester Springs is located at the intersection of Routes 100 and 113, just
off the Downingtown, Exit 312 (old Exit 23) of the PA Turnpike. See www.innatchestersprings.com for map and more
detailed directions.
By Train – Call ahead of time and
arrange with the hotel to be picked up by their shuttle at the Exton, PA AMTRAK
station, just 5 miles from the hotel.
For a lower cost housing alternative … The
Philadelphia/ West Chester KOA has Kamping Kabins at even more affordable
rates. http://koa.com/facilit ies/kabin/
1-2:00 Concurrent Workshops
Research Workshop: “Speed Dating” – Modeled on the popular match-making
technique, in this workshop, attendees will experience brief, sequential
encounters with other researchers, sharing issues, suggestions, solutions to
research dilemmas.
Collections Workshop: “My Find” – Attendees
to this workshop can bring a favorite find – military or civilian – that dates
to the mid-19th century. This workshop will consist of discussions
of the identity, analysis and care of items.
2:30-4 Concurrent Workshops
Research Workshop: “Military Records” – Military
Historian Les Jensen will outline how and why military records are created, and
how and where researchers can find the information in them.
Collections Workshop: “Tabletop Displays” –
Individuals and teams will compare and critique table-top displays showing
artifacts or research related to the conference. The workshop will focus on
techniques for producing displays that are both attractive and educational.
5-5:30 Annual Meeting
Join us for a brief update and meeting on organizational
matters of the Society for Women and the Civil War.
5:30-7 Welcome Reception
Enjoy pizza and (new addition this year!) a cash bar, and view
Tabletop Displays, visit our vendors.
7-8 Presentation:
“Women of Philadelphia” – Robin
Stokes, a life-long resident of the greater Philadelphia area, will provide
an overview of the many and varied roles of Philadelphia women in the Civil
War.
8-10 Authors’ Book Signing Session
Bringing back a conference tradition, attendees who have
authored or edited books re invited to bring them to sell and sign.
8-10 Midnight Madness
Donate, sell, bid or buy items associated (however loosely)
with the Civil War. In this speed-shopping event, attendees will have only two
hours to place bids and make purchases.
Registered attendees may choose to:
Be a Seller … Bring Civil War or Civil War –related
items, pay $5 to setup and sell.
Be a Donor … Bring Civil War or Civil War-related
items for SWCW to sell or offer at the Silent Auction.
Be a Buyer … Show up at “Midnight Madness” for
shopping and Silent Auction bidding.
Saturday
Continental Breakfast
9-1:30 Presentations
“Nellie Chase Leath: Civil War Nurse with Attitude” – Dr.
Carolyn P. Schriber will describe a nurse who might be described as
“Dorothea Dix’s worst nightmare.” She was young, beautiful, practical,
headstrong. Patients adored her; a chaplain did not.
“Depot Women: Unknown Backbone of the Confederacy” – Les
Jensen will describe the lives and labors of tens of thousands of women who
worked for uniform depots, and organizations that employed them, comparing
Richmond and Philadelphia depots.
Break
“Martha J. Coston: An Illuminating History” – Denise
E. Pilato will report on Martha J. Coston, who invented and patented the
Coston Signal Fuse, which was adopted and used by the U.S. Navy and other
services during and after the Civil War.
“Copperhead Women” – Ph.D. candidate Jonathan W. White will
break away from our usual discussions of women who supported the war to discuss
northern women who opposed what they saw as coercion of the South and Lincoln’s
“war to free the slaves.”
2-5:30 Field Trip – “An Afternoon at the Spa”
The Saturday afternoon field trip will consist of a short bus trip to Yellow Springs Historic Site. Docents will provide guided tours of this site that was alternately used as a tavern, a hospital for Revolutionary War Soldiers, a 19th century spa and resort, and a Soldiers’ Orphans Home.
Yellow Springs Historic Site
Jenny Lind performed here.
The children of hundreds of
Civil War soldiers lived and attended school here.
And, yes, George Washington
DID sleep here.
Attendees will have about three hours to
tour the site and visit ‘stations’ where they can, if they wish, participate in
some of the leisure activities enjoyed by visitors to 19th century
resorts and health spas.
Evaluations of past
conferences indicate that some of our attendees would like an opportunity to
dress in period attire during the conference.
Bus times will be staggered to provide extra time for those who choose
to change into period attire for this field trip.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/education/orphan1904/calisthenic.jpg
Photo courtesy Juanita Leisch Jensen
“An Afternoon at the Spa” will exercise your mind and body.
7-9 Banquet – Inn at Chester Springs. The chef at the Inn has designed a buffet
that will delight everyone.
Sunday
9-1:30 Presentations
“Becoming Useful: Confederate Women Composers” –
Dr. Candace Bailey will describe the efforts and accomplishments of women
who made themselves useful to Confederate war efforts by composing and
publishing patriotic sheet music.
“Cherokee Women”– Dr. Clarissa Confer will
explore ways that Cherokee women experienced the war, focusing on individuals
who left records of their experiences, including Mrs. General Stand Watie, wife
of the highest ranking Indian in the Civil War.
Break
“The Role of Chester County Women in the Great Central Fair” –
Florence K. Williams will describe the organization and participation of
women from Chester County, PA [where our conference is being held] in the 1864
Philadelphia Sanitary Fair.
“The Woman Major General John Fulton Reynolds Left Behind”– Marian
Latimer will reveal the ‘rest of the story’ about Catharine Mary Hewitt,
revealing what happened to the fiancée of General Reynolds … new data for
anyone who thought her life was an “unsolved mystery.”
1:30 Adjourn
Optional Trip
Take
advantage of attending a conference only 35 miles from center-city
Philadelphia!
One of the conference handouts will be directions for taking a
Self-Guided Driving Tour of sites in Philadelphia related to women’s roles in
the Civil War. The Guide will also provide directions for those who want to travel
to Philadelphia by public transportation.
Summary
of Registration Options
The
Society is pleased to offer a variety of registration options to fit this event
in even the tightest calendar.
Register
at swcw.org and pay by PayPal, or print and complete this form, sending
it with a check or money order to:
SWCW
Box
#9066 at 8345 NW 66th Street, Miami, FL 33166.
Name(s): ___________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________
City/ST/Zip _________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________
(_) Save me a space to sell/sign my books.
Prices based on Postmark or date of PayPal payment.
by by by After
5/1 6/1 7/1 7/1 Qty Total
Member-only prices (see swcw.org for
membership form)
Full conf $195 $210 $225 $250 ___ $___
Fri. only $55 $60 $65 $75 ___ $___
Sat. only $125 $130 $135 $145 ___ $___
Sun. only $55 $60 $65 $75 ___ $___
General prices (for non-members)
Full conf $230 $245 $255 $265 ___ $___
Fri. only $60 $65 $70 $80 ___ $___
Sat. only $130 $135 $140 $150 ___ $___
Sun. only $60 $65 $70 $80 ___ $___
Recruit
(meals, field trips, social events, one lecture)
$115 $125 $135 $145 ___ $___
Banquet only $45 $45 $45 $50 ___ $___
Total payment: _________
Notebooks
will be provided on a supplies-available basis for those who register after
7/1/7. The “after 7/1/7” rate will apply for all who register at the door.
Cancellations must be made prior to 6/15/7, and are subject to a 20%
administrative fee.
Clarissa Confer
received her Ph.D. in 1997 from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently
teaching American History at California University of Pennsylvania and serving
as teaching consultant to the Library of Congress’ primary document project Adventures
of the American Mind. Her
research has focused on the Five Southeastern Nations and her book The
Cherokee Nation in the Civil War has just been published by University of
Oklahoma Press. She has presented papers and published articles on both
indigenous peoples, focusing on their self-identity and interaction with
Anglo-Europeans, and various aspects of the American Civil War.
Dr. Florence K. Williams is a
living history interpreter. She
demonstrates carding, spinning and dying of wool, hearth cooking and other 18th
and 19th century domestic skills.
While the majority of her reenacting has been the American Civil War
Period, she also interprets the Federal Period, the Lewis and Clark Expedition
and the War of 1812. Her focus has been
the food ways and domestic skills of the eras as well women organizations
during and following the American Civil War.
The Refreshment Saloons of Philadelphia is a current research
topic. She has a small collection of
Women Relief Corps and related auxiliary badges of the post-Civil War
period. As Civilian Coordinator of the
97th PVI, Co. B, a modern civil war reenacting unit, she is recording the
burial sites of the original members of the unit and has assisted the Sons of
Union Veterans of the Civil War with their grave registration. She takes great pride in the past
accomplishments of the Re-Dedication of the 97th Monument in
Marshall Square Park, West Chester PA (2002) and the 1st Modern
Reunion of Descendents of the 97th PVI (2005).
Robin Stokes is a
lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, and has had a lifelong interest in
the Civil War. She is past president of
the George W. Taylor Civil War Round Table in Clinton, NJ. She was Assistant Guest Curator of “Essential to the Cause”, an exhibit at the
National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA, and served as Preparator of
“Spirit of Young America”, an exhibit on children at the same Museum. She served on the board of the Civil War
Artifact Forum, and helped to organize both conferences sponsored by that
organization. She attended Moore College
of Art in Philadelphia and Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She is a member of the 15th NJ
Inf., N-SSA and the 3rd NJ Volunteers.
Jonathan W. White is a
Ph.D. candidate studying U.S. History at the University of Maryland, College
Park. He has published articles on Civil
War politics in Civil War History (September 2004), American
Nineteenth Century History (Summer 2004), the Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography (April 2005), and Pennsylvania Heritage
(Winter 2006). He has also published a
short essay on conducting historical research in Perspectives (March
2006). My article in Civil War
History was awarded the 2005 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article in
the journal for the preceding year.
Jonathan is currently finishing his dissertation, “To Aid Their Rebel
Friends,” is a study of treason, loyalty and nationalism in the North during
the American Civil War.
Les Jensen is a
professional museum curator specializing in military history who has worked in
the museum field since 1971. He served
for eight years as Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Confederacy,
Richmond, Virginia. Within the Army
Museum System, he has been Museum Curator at the U.S. Army Transportation
Museum,. Ft. Eustis, Virginia, and Director
of two U.S. Army Museums, the 2d Armored Division Museum, Ft. Hood, Texas and
The Old Guard Museum, Ft. Myer, Virginia.
He was a Museum Curator in the U.S. Army Center of Military History in
Washington, DC for ten years, serving variously as a planner for the National
Museum of the Army project, and as Chief of the Collection Branch. He is currently Curator of Arms and Armor at
the West Point Museum, West Point, New York.
Marion Latimer is a graduate of the University of
Michigan with a degree in history, (although not the Civil War) English, and
social studies. She had intended to
teach at the secondary level but became a state employee working in the social
service field. The Civil War has become
a great interest of hers. She is the
author of "Is She Kate? The Woman
Major General John Fulton Reynolds Left Behind."
Candace Bailey is
associate professor of music at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Bailey has written articles on such
diverse topics as the antebellum piano girl and seventeenth-century music
theory. Her publications include a book on seventeenth-century manuscripts
sources and two editions, in addition to reviews and articles in various
journals. Dr. Bailey’s most recent presentations include discussions of
situating the piano girl among social customs of the antebellum South,
Confederate women composers, the education of young women in early modern
Britain, the analysis of English music c. 1615, and new ways of defining the
“Baroque” in music. She teaches courses on the history of western classical
music, piano literature, and hip hop.
Carolyn P. Schriber graduated with a Ph.D. in history from
the University of Colorado, Boulder.
She is currently Professor Emerita at Rhodes College in Memphis,
Tennessee. She has published The
Letter Collections of Arnulf of Lisieux and Scholarship in the
21st-Century University. Her most
recent work A Scratch With the Rebels: Sgt.
McCaskey and the Roundheads from Muster to Secessionville, is currently under review by an academic press.
As I sit here in upstate New York, it’s
snowing (finally), and just as I’m ready for spring, it seems winter has
arrived. With every passing day, week,
month, I know we’re drawing ever closer to our 9th annual Conference
on Women and the Civil War, and I can hardly wait!
This issue of the newsletter will provide
many details on the conference, which will be held in Chester County, PA, July
27-29, 2007. We had more papers
submitted by potential speakers than in any past year, and are please to offer
a wonderful and diverse group of presentations.
In addition, we have a number of hands-on activities planned for
registrants. Thanks to a timely suggestion from Vicki Rumble, we have time set
aside for registrants to get books signed by members who are authors. We’re also planning interactive workshops
(once again offered at no additional charge), a Midnight Madness speed shopping
event, and, as our field trip an “Afternoon at the Spa”.
During our “Afternoon at the Spa” field
trip we’ll be visiting a site that was, alternately, an 18th century
resort, the site of a hospital for Revolutionary War soldiers, a 19th
century spa, and, after the Civil War, one of Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphans
Homes. While visiting the spa, you’ll
have opportunities to experience some of the activities enjoyed by visitors to
the spa in the 19th century.
NOTE - We need volunteers who can help lead our participants in leisure
activities at the spa activities. Please
contact me at juanitaleisch@yahoo.com
if this is a role that interests you.
Some attendees at past conferences indicated on our Evaluation Forms that they would enjoy dressing in period attire during the conference, so – for the first time in our conference history -- we’re staggering the buses to allow changing time for any who chose to dress in period attire for the “Afternoon at the Spa”.
If you plan an extended vacation around
the conference weekend, you can take advantage of our special $99 conference
rate as you tour Philadelphia to the east, or Lancaster County to the west, not
to mention local sites like Winterthur, Longwood Gardens, the Hagley
Museum. And if you bring family members
along, even those who are not interested in history will have plenty to see and
do, with the Helicopter Museum, King of Prussia Mall, the and even (dare I
mention it?) the QVC Studio Tour close by. And I’m absolutely not going to talk
about the used book stores and antique shops in Chester and Bucks County,
PA. The military historian in the family
may want to take the ferry over to Fort Delaware State Park.
We have some other exciting developments
in the Society, as well:
Plans are already afoot for the 2008
Conference, which will be held at Hood College in Frederick, MD. It’s going to be our 10th
conference, so you know we’ll have to make a special effort to celebrate that
milestone.
The Society is growing and changing, and I
welcome your comments and suggestions on ways we could promote our mission, of
honoring the lives and roles of women in the American Civil War.
Juanita
Leisch Jensen
President
Society for Women and the Civil War
Members will be
glad to know that the three new members of the Board of Directors have begun
their tenure with great enthusiasm. We have asked each new member to introduce
herself to you.
Patricia
Richard:
Hello fellow
history enthusiasts. I, Patricia (Tish)
Richard am very excited to be part of your organization. I am impressed with your knowledge of women
and their part in the Civil War and your professionalism in putting on your
yearly conferences. I’m most struck
with, however, your ability to mix fun with learning. I look forward to the time I’ll share with
you all in the year to come. On a more
formal note, I have been an Assistant Professor of American History at Metropolitan
State College of Denver since 2002. I
have taught courses on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, the U.S. and
Vietnam and U.S. history survey courses at Metro and other universities in the
United States. I received my Ph.D. from
Marquette University in 2001. My
doctoral dissertation dealt with northern women’s war work and the importance
of their work in the northern civil war effort.
I published my first book Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern
Civil War Effort with Fordham University Press December
2003. I have written articles concerning
northern women’s war work for national journals and presented her research at
historical conferences around the country.
I am currently working on African American Soldiers’ Aid Societies. I hope to publish my second book in the next
year or two.
Bonnie Mangan:
Bonnie
grew up in Chicago and attended the University of Illinois earning a BA in
History and Masters Degrees in Middle East Studies and Library Science. After a
one-year stint as a librarian for a university library in Isfahan Iran, she got
a job at Big Mama Library (Library of Congress) where she works for the
Congressional Research Service as an Information Research Specialist. Bonnie's
interest in the Civil War began shortly after she saw the most recent movie
version of Little Women. After reading numerous sources on the Alcotts,
Transcendentalists, abolition, mid-19th Century New England, and Louisa as a
nurse, she was happy to learn about the first Conference on Women and the Civil
War. She has attended every conference, and claims that each one is better than
ever. Bonnie researched and wrote a screenplay about Elizabeth Jennings, an
African American schoolteacher in New York City who won a court case against a
trolley company that barred her from riding on the trolley back in 1855.
Nancy Hill:
Nancy
has an extensive background in not-for-profit administration, development and
public affairs. Her life-long avocation has been women's history, particularly
primary sources. She has been a guest speaker and trainer on a variety of
topics.
At the 2005 Conference on Women and the
Civil War annual meeting at Virginia Tech I announced the creation of the
SWCW Regents Program. The purpose of being an SWCW Regent is
simple…to help promote the Society, increase Society membership and support our
annual Conference on Women and the Civil War.
The SWCW Regents Program
is loosely based on the Confederate Memorial Literary Society’s (CMLS)
organizational structure to run the Confederate Museum, now Museum of the
Confederacy, in the White House of the Confederacy in 1896. Each room of the White House was assigned a
former Confederate State and a Regent was elected that lived in the home state. She would contact veterans and families in
that state to secure artifact donations for the Confederate Museum and send
these donations to “her” State Room in the White House.
The SWCW Regents Program
seeks to utilize selected members to help us get information about the
organization and its annual conference out to more people. One way to achieve this goal is to contact
Civil War-related sites, historical societies and educational institutions
willing to carry SWCW materials or who may be able to support our mission.
The mission of The Society
for Women and the Civil War (SWCW) is to increase an awareness and
understanding of women’s roles related to the Civil War through education and
scholarship. Our vision is that the SWCW
will serve its members by helping them get in touch with others pursuing
similar research, reenactment, memorial, preservation, or publishing goals.
There are some
responsibilities to being a Regent and we ask each person to carefully consider
how they can help the SWCW efforts by becoming a Regent. We ask the Regents to submit periodic reports
listing the places they distribute SWCW materials and to help us by sending
addresses to sites, schools, museum and local conferences that may be
interested in our organization. They are
also asked to send out mailings on our behalf.
We rely on the membership
and especially our Regents when we start recruiting for conference
volunteers. For instance, Ann Kalata
(PA) has agreed to put together the conference welcome packet, which will be
distributed to all of the conference attendees.
These will have brochures and maps of areas of interest in the Chester
County area and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Tim Daley (OH) and Lin Russell
(WA) are helping lead conference workshops and Connie Slewitzke (VA) has
compiled a mailing list of Women’s Studies programs, for a target mailing about
SWCW membership and the annual conference.
Kim Howe (NY), Barb Kay (IL), Karen Mehaffey (MI),
and Mary Louise Daley (OH) and others will be sending out a target
mailing with the rack cards announcing the conference dates. Donna Abraham (PA) and Victoria
Rumble (AL) pass out materials at their place of business and Saundra
Jordan takes materials to all of her speaking engagements. Brenda McKean (NC) and Polly
Steenhagen (DE) are driving to Richmond to help the Board with a conference
work session where we will be placing mailing labels on brochures to planning
field trip logistics. Janet Whaley (CA)
will be a field trip volunteer again, if she can attend the conference in July,
if she can’t then she’ll be on the bus at the 2008 conference!! This is just a short list, because many of
the Regents are doing more than I have listed here, but you can tell there is a
lot of work being done “behind the scenes.” We love and admire the dedication
of our membership and our Regents to help make this organization strong and
growing every year.
The long-term success of
the Society and continuation of the annual conference depends on our membership
growing and a steady increase in conference attendance. The Society’s Board hopes the implementation
of the SWCW Regent Program is our first step to achieve these
objectives. We hope our heartfelt
appreciation for the efforts of our Regents on behalf of the SWCW will
be incentive enough for increased participation with the Society.
We thank and celebrate our wonderful regents:
Donna Abraham’s, Gettysburg, PA
Tim and Mary Louise
Daley, Cleveland, OH
Kim
Howe, Richmondville, NY
Saundra Jourdan, Baltimore, MD
Ann Kalata, Duncannon, PA
Barbara Kay, Glen Carbon, IL
Brenda McKean, Timberlake, NC
Karen Mehaffey, Northville, MI
Victoria Rumble, Florence, AL
Lin Russell, Edmonds, WA
Connie Slewitzke, Annandale, VA
Janet Whaley, Pasedena, CA
If your state
is not represented and you are willing to help the Society, please contact SWCW
Board member and Regent Advisor, Becky Rose at
This month we have a very special request
for our members. Many of our members in education bemoan the general lack of
representation of the roles of women in many textbooks and of books examining
the vast and varied roles of women during the Civil War as being virtually
absent from most school libraries. We would like members to volunteer to donate
a book during National Women’s History Month (March) to a local high school or
middle school library of their choice in the name of The Society for Women
and the Civil War.
This year’s book is They Fought Like
Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by past SWCW president, DeAnne
Blanton and friend of SWCW Lauren Cook.
Each book will come with a bookplate
inscribed with the SWCW logo and the name of the member making the
presentation. Each member can inscribe the bookplate with the name of the
school they have chosen or we will do that for you if you prefer.
We have a limited supply of books, and
want to encourage as many members as possible to take part. If you would like
to present more than one book, please let us know and if every member who
requests a book gets one and there are more left, we will send the extra copies to those members who wish to
present more than one library with a book.
When you
receive your presentation copy, you will also receive a press release you may
use for your local newspaper that will require you only to write in the
particulars of the your individual presentation. If you donate in person,
please send us a photo of you presenting the book for our website and for local
press releases.
This has become annual event and through
the presentations and the press coverage we will be able to further our mission
to raise awareness of the roles of our foremothers during the Civil War. We
also encourage members to donate books about women and the war for the
giveaway. We know that many of our members are authors and would be honored to
present one of your books to an appropriate library. Other members might also
donate the copies of their favorite books about women and the war. We will accept a single copy or more for
these purposes.
We realize that Women’s History Month
may be the time that we can get the most attention focused on women. We also
realize that one month is not enough – that remembering or teaching about any
group should not be relegated to one month. So join us, as we attempt to Make
Every Month Women’s History Month!!!!!!
If you are interested in making a book
presentation, please contact Meg Galante-DeAngelis at
Historic
Yellow Springs, Inc. preserves eleven structures, 140 acres,
and a collection of art, artifacts, and archives for research, education, and
community involvement. Yellow Springs is our field trip destination for the
2007 Conference on Women and the Civil War.
Take a few minutes to take an e-tour of Historic Yellow
Springs by visiting: http://www.yellowsprings.org/
The Castle on the Hill from Wood to Brick
The Dansville Area Historical Society will
present “The Castle on the Hill from Wood to Brick” by museum curator, David
Gilbert. We shall relive the earliest years of the Jackson Health Resort’s
history, with a slide show of pictures digitized from glass plates. In 1908,
when the Jackson family, owners and operators of the Jackson Sanatorium,
celebrated their 50th anniversary, the slides were first presented. It was in
1858 that Dr. James Caleb Jackson took over the old wooden “water cure” that
had been built a few years before. His son, Dr. James H Jackson oversaw the
construction of the brick Sanatorium, after the wooden structure burned down in
1882. The slide show will feature rare and fascinating photos of the two
buildings, inside and out, pictures of the Jackson family and of various
patients (including women wearing the notorious “American Costume”). Come
relive events that have long since faded.
The glass slides have been digitized for easier viewing by Paul Hoffman and
Jane Schryver. They will assist with the presentation. Admission is free but a
contribution would be appreciated. The presentation will be at the Dansville
Town Hall, Clara Barton St., on March 22nd at 7:30 PM. If any questions, please
contact:
Bettie Whitenack, Program Chairman
50 Clara Barton Street
Dansville, N.Y. 14437
Phone 585-335-2727
2007 is
the first ever Conference on Women and the Civil War to be held in northeastern
Pennsylvania. We’re very excited about
the conference site. In fact, there’s so much to see and do, we think you might
want to plan to stay an extra day or two, and if you turn the weekend into a
family vacation, there’ll be no excuse to hear there’s “nothing to do”.
The
intent of this article was to mention a dozen things to see in and around
northeastern Pennsylvania. But we
couldn’t get it narrowed down, so here are our top picks.
Check
times before you plan your trip; some of these sites have limited hours. Travel
into (and finding parking in) Philadelphia may require much more time than that
reported by MapQuest
Our
conference is being held in Chester County.
Immediately to the west is Lancaster County, thirty five miles south
east is Philadelphia …
Heading
West toward Lancaster?
Lancaster County, PA is famous for being a center of Amish
Culture. The restaurants, and fabric,
craft, and antique shops aren’t bad, either. And the B&Bs. Just about everything in Lancaster County is
family-friendly ….
Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster – 13 W. King St., Lancaster, PA
Cultural History & the Quilt and Textile Museums
www.lancasterheritage.com
-
MapQuest says: 49 miles; 54 minutes
Landis Valley Museum -
2451 Kissel Hill Rd., Lancaster, PA
living history museum of Pennsylvania German history and heritage
www.landisvalleymuseum.org
MapQuest says: 45 miles; 49 minutes
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania – 300 Gap Road,
Strasburg, PA
one of the most significant collections of historic
railroad artifacts in the world
www.rrmuseumpa.og
MapQuest says: 32 miles; 31
minutes
Heading East to Philadelphia?
Philadelphia is such a hot-bed of history, that public
schools still find money to take kids there. This list is missing some of the
better known sites, because we tried to concentrate on appealing to 19th
century interests.
Atwater Kent Museum. - 15 S 7th St.,
Philadelphia
Philadelphia's history – many Sanitary Fair items in the collection
www.philadelphiahistory.org
MapQuest says: 32 miles; 40 minutes
Civil War & Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia -
1805 S. Pine St., Philadelphia
This, the oldest chartered Civil War institution in the country (started from
PA MOLLUS) has sold its building and must vacate by 2008.)
www.cwurmuseum.org
MapQuest says: 32 miles; 41 minutes
Grand Army of the Republic Museum and
Library -
4278 Griscom Street Philadelphia
Civil War and Grand Army of the Republic artifacts, books, and memorabilia.
www.garmuslib.org
MapQuest says: 34 miles; 45 minutes
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - 118 N. Broad
St., Philadelphia
one of the earliest and most important collections of American art.
www.Pafa.org
MapQuest says: 31 miles; 39 minutes
Philadelphia Museum of Art. - 26th & Ben Franklin Pkwy.
Philadelphia
200 galleries of treasures from all ages and cultures -- and the steps in the Rocky movies
www.philamuseum.org
MapQuest says: 30 miles; 37 minutes
Both Chester County and Bucks County, PA are famous
for their antique shops, and the beautiful scenery. You’ll have a great time if you do nothing
but take a drive. But we’ve also included in this list some things family
members might enjoy.
American Helicopter Museum
& Education Center -
1220 American Boulevard,
West Chester, PA
origin and development of rotary wing aircraft … if young boys designed
museums…
www.helicoptermuseum.org
MapQuest says: 5 miles; 10 minutes
Chester County Historical Society - 225 N. High St., West Chester, PA
local history museum right in Chester County, minutes from the conference site
www.cchs-pa.org
MapQuest says: 5 miles; 9 minutes
Cornwall Iron Furnace - 94 Rexmont
Road Cornwall, PA
America’s most complete charcoal fueled ironmaking complex – and worker
housing!
www.cornwallironfurnace.org
MapQuest says: 56 miles; one hour
Fort Delaware State Park – Delaware City, DE
military fort and Civil War prison camp
www.destateparks.com/fdsp
MapQuest says: 42 miles; 54 minutes
Hagley Museum and Library -
- 298 Buck Road East Wilmington,
DE
the history of American enterprise (and industry).
www.hagley.org
MapQuest says: 22.51 miles; 32 minutes.
King of Prussia Mall - over 400 stores and restaurants - 160 North Gulph Road
King of Prussia, PA
www.kingofprussiamall.com
MapQuest says: 13 miles; 17 minutes
Longwood Gardens - - 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square
, PA
1,050 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows.
www.longwoodgardens.org
MapQuest says: 16 miles; 23 minutes
QVC Studio Tour - 1200 Wilson Dr., West Chester, PA 19380.
guided walking tour through the world of electronic retailing
www.qvc.com
MapQuest says: 5.3 miles; 10 minutes
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate - Route
52 Winterthur, DE
completely unparalleled collections of
antiques and Americana
www.winterthur.org
MapQuest says: 20.89 miles; 29 minutes
Special
exhibit will focus on the significance of Civil War to the state’s history
Richmond, VA:
Opening on March 24, 2007, a special exhibit entitled “Virginia and the
Confederacy: A Quadricentennial
Perspective” will represent the Museum of the Confederacy’s
commemoration of Virginia’s 400th anniversary. This exhibit
showcases the Museum’s rich object, photograph, and library collections
relating to Virginia’s history.
Highlights
of the exhibit include a signed copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s
General Order No. 9. and a frock coat and portrait of Colonel and Governor
Charles T. O’Ferrall, one of eight consecutive postwar Virginia governors who
had served in the Confederate army. Other featured items include the swords of
General J.E.B. Stuart, his father-in-law General Philip St. George Cooke (USA)
and his brother-in-law General John R. Cooke (CSA). The swords will be
displayed with quotations from a letter from J.E.B. Stuart to his family urging
them to resign their posts in the U.S. Army.
The
Confederate years loom large in the Commonwealth’s history. The war devastated
the state’s landscape, led to the separation of its western counties, ended
slavery, and brought freedom and citizenship to nearly a half-million
Virginians of African-American descent. In these and other ways, the war was a
bloody culmination of issues that Virginians and all Americans had struggled
with since the country’s origins.
Virginia was the keystone of the Confederacy – the
Confederate state with the largest white and black populations, the largest
industrial base, and an important and symbolic tradition of leadership in
national affairs. It was the scene of more battles and more deaths than any
other state. The experiences of 1861-1865 continue to affect Virginians to this
day, generating political controversies on one hand and tourism dollars on the
other. This exhibit will replace the previous special exhibit “The Hope of
Eight Million People: The Story of the Confederate Soldier.” For more
information on this and other exhibits at the Museum of the Confederacy, please
visit www.moc.org.
Location: Kentucky,
United States
Fellowship Date: 2007-04-01
Date Submitted: 2007-01-17
Announcement ID: 155014
The Kentucky Library & Museum (Special
Collections) at Western Kentucky University is offering a fellowship of $500 to
encourage the scholarly use of its nationally significant collection. Funds may
be used for travel expenses to Bowling Green or for photocopying fees. Letters
of application must demonstrate how the Kentucky Library & Museum
collections are relevant to the writer's research topic and suggest how the
research will lead to a publication or presentation.
The library and museum collections are
especially strong for the antebellum and Civil War eras and in religion, the
Shakers, speleology, textiles, furniture, and Victorian dolls.
Applications will be reviewed April 1,
2007, and the recipient will be notified by April 14. For additional
information, visit or contact the Kentucky Library at 270-745-5083.
Nancy Baird
Kentucky Library & Museum
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11092
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1092
Phone: 270-745-6263
Fax: 270-745-6264
Email:nancy.baird@wku.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wku.edu/Library/kylm/about/fellowship.html
“Oh, I wanted to read this,” I said as I
unwrapped my Hanukkah present.
“Thank God you have a hobby,” said my
friend. I’m sure many friends of Civil War (CW) Ladies have felt that way when
trying to find an appropriate gift.
I must confess that I usually do not
find CW historical novels very satisfying.
First-hand accounts in letters and memoirs are more to my liking. And
then there is that little Yankee vs. Confederate thing.
The Judas Field really is an
excellent novel. I could not put it down. Howard Bahr is an exceptional story
teller who can convey details of the battles, post war life, and the people
involved in them with clarity, simplicity, and power.
Twenty
years after the Battle of Franklin, former Confederate sergeant Cass Wakefield
is asked to help his friend, Alison Sansing, locate the bodies of her father
and brother who fell at Franklin. Her father was the Colonel of the regiment
and her brother the Adjutant. Alison
wants to retrieve their remains and re-inter them in the family plot in their
hometown of Cumberland, Mississippi, where Alison knows she will soon join
them. Cass, though a successful salesman, wants to drink and forget the war.
His son, Lucian, who decides to go along on this journey, wants to sip laudanum
and forget the war. And their brother-in-arms, Roger Lewellyn, also makes the
journey back in time to Franklin with the others.
The story is told in the present, well
1884, and in 1864, seamlessly going back and forth. This is one of the
strengths of the author. The battle scenes are vivid and the soldiers’ day-
to-day bone weary lives are recounted. The loss of comrades and family weighs
on all the main characters. And the brutality of what they had to endure, those
who fought and those who remained at home is unsparingly recounted.
Wandering
the Franklin battlegrounds, twenty years later, where much remains as they
remember it, has devastating consequences for the three veterans. But memories
remain, more than physical remains. And the bitterness between Yankee and Rebel
still remains.
Location: Missouri,
United States
Fellowship Date: 2007-03-01 (in 27 days)
Date Submitted: 2007-01-18
Announcement ID: 155034
The Missouri State Archives offers the
William E. Foley Research Fellowship to help support the use of its public
records in scholarly research. Any research project that utilizes the holdings
of the Missouri State Archives and/or its St. Louis branch to further knowledge
of state or national history is eligible for funding.
The Archives is the official repository
for all state records of historical value. Its collections date from 1770 and
include more than 336 million pages of records; 400,000 photographs and prints;
9,000 maps; 61,000 microfilm reels; tens of thousands of state publications;
and an important collection of audiotapes, CDs, and videos. Included among
these documents are important records concerning: western fur trade; slavery;
the Civil War; Frank and Jesse James; military records from the War of 1812 to
the start of World War II; European immigration; and modern Missouri politics.
Among the larger records series are: governors’ papers; general assembly
records; Missouri Supreme Court case files; records and publications from state
departments and agencies; and millions of microfilmed county and municipal
records.
Fellowships are funded by the Friends of
the Missouri State Archives. They are intended to defray expenses incurred when
visiting the Archives and/or its branch. Awards are based on estimated expenses
of up to $2,000.
Fellows must complete their research
within a year of the award date and are expected to submit a final report
explaining the work performed.
Applicants for the William E. Foley
Research Fellowship should complete an application form and provide a research
proposal, curriculum vitae, and list of references by March 1, 2007. These
materials may be sent to Dr. Shelly J. Croteau, Assistant State Archivist,
Missouri State Archives, P.O. Box 1747, 600 West Main St., Jefferson City, MO
65102.
Shelly J. Croteau, PhD, CA
Assistant State Archivist
Missouri State Archives
PO Box 1747, 600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Voice: 573.751.4303
Fax: 573.526.7333
Email: shelly.croteau@sos.mo.gov
Visit the website at
Richmond,
VA: The Museum of the Confederacy is offering
a unique benefit to its members: a chance to take a rare look at the artifacts
in the collection, all from the comfort of a home computer. Re:Discovery,
unveiled on Jan. 19, 2007, is an online database that features many of the key
items in the Museum’s unmatched collection of Confederate artifacts. The Museum
has completed over 2,000 entries to the easily searchable database, with many
more to follow in coming months. Now available are entries for key military
equipment like uniforms and swords. Curatorial staff hopes to have the Museum’s
world-famous flag and photographic collections online in 2008. Members have
access to the artifact’s description, artist, owner, history, accession number
and in some cases, a photograph. Re:Discovery is invaluable research tool for Civil
War enthusiasts and those interested in visiting the museum but unable to
travel to it.
According to President
S. Waite Rawls III, “This is yet another step that the Museum of the
Confederacy is taking to ensure the best experience for its members and donors.
Technological advances such as this database expand our educational mission
through the Internet and offer an unparalleled museum experience to our
generous members.”
Re:Discovery
was funded by grants from the Lee-Jackson Educational Foundation and the Roller
Bottimore Foundation. For information about how to become a member of the
Museum of the Confederacy and to see Re:Discovery, visit www.moc.org.
The
Museum of the Confederacy is a private, nonprofit educational institution. The
Museum and White House of the Confederacy are located in the historic Court End
neighborhood in downtown Richmond
Free
parking is available in the MCV/VCU Hospitals Visitor/Patient parking deck
adjacent to the Museum.
For
additional information, please call (804) 649-1861 or visit us on the web at www.moc.org
H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-CivWar@h-net.msu.edu
(December, 2006)
A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The
Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond.
Edited by Kimberly Harrison.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2006. xvi + 384 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography,
appendices, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8071-3143-1.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Jennifer Ann
Newman, Department of History, Auburn University.
A Woman's War
In the past few decades we have seen an
abundance of scholarship that illustrates the importance of women during the American
Civil War. Analytical works such as George C. Rable's Civil Wars: Women and the
Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989), and Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of
Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War(1996),
provide insight into the lives of women during this period.
Another approach has been to allow
historical figures to speak for themselves by publishing the entirety of their
writings, as exemplified by the diary of Mary Chesnut edited by C. Vann
Woodward (1981). Kimberly Harrison's edited diary of Priscilla Bond is a
brilliant addition to the latter historiography. Harrison notes that although
historians Drew Gilpin Faust, in Mothers of Invention, and Eugene Genovese, in
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves
Made (1972), both cite Bond's diary, this is the first time it has appeared in
its entirety in print.
Harrison points to the significance of the
diary because of its extensive scope as well as the unique perspective provided
by Bond. Kept from 1858 through 1865, the diary records not only the war years,
but also those directly leading up to its outbreak. Bond's diary reflects
themes of religion, kinship networks, and slavery that are common to women's
diaries during this period. Harrison's introduction situates Bond's experience
in the context of not only other diarists of her time, but also of recent
historiography, pointing out where it strengthens or challenges the conclusions
of other historians.
Bond's decision to marry, for example,
strengthens the findings of historians such as Jane Censer Turner (North
Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860 [1984]), who has argued that
Southern planters raised their children to be independent autonomous social
actors. Bond's situation further suggests that Turner's conclusions might apply
to non-planter elites as well. Bond's parents did not attempt to influence her
decision to marry Howard Bond. Indeed the majority of the first portion of her
diary concerns Bond's inner struggle with her sincere desire that God would
direct her to make the right choice regarding her marriage.
Religion played a crucial role in Bond's
life at other times. It provided a source of comfort to Bond as she battled
tuberculosis; figured prominently in her everyday decisions; and played a role
in the formation of her identity. Bond struggled with redefinition not only as
she attempted to conform to what she believed was her duty as a wife in the
turmoil of war, but also as she faced the differences in culture as she moved
from her home in Maryland to that of her husband's family in Louisiana. That
experience further provides the insights of a woman who turned to her diary as
her confidant, as many women of the time did. Bond clearly relied upon kinship
networks as well. Yet Harrison maintains that Bond's experience challenges the
argument that women relied exclusively upon female kinship networks by noting
both her male
and female friends.
Transplanted to a foreign and what Bond
perceived as a somewhat hostile
environment, she found herself disconnected. Born and raised in
Maryland, she grew up in predominantly white society that relied mainly upon hired
black workers rather than slave laborers. Although Maryland was a slave state,
the majority of slave-owners held few slaves. This presented a stark contrast
to the plantation culture of Louisiana. There she encountered the harsh
realities of slavery as her father-in-law presented a figure of cruelty to
slaves best personified by Simon Legree of Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's
Cabin (1852). At first, Bond opposed the manner in which her father-in-law
treated his slaves. Yet as time progressed, the fear of slave insurrections
caused her paternalistic concern for the welfare of slaves to grow fainter. She
was hardly acclimated to her new life and family, when the course of the war
caused her to again be uprooted after her husband was involved in a raid in
1862 during which two Union soldiers were killed. Bond related her horror at
the insistence of Northern soldiers that they search the house for her husband
after that raid. If that was not bad enough, she then witnessed the destruction
of his property by those same soldiers.
It was at this point that she began to
perceive the deterioration of traditional male and female roles. She fled to
Texas with her husband's family. His involvement in the Confederate war effort
meant that he was rarely home, which
even further challenged Bond's conformity to her image of her role as a wife.
Throughout the turmoil of her move, the Civil War, separation from her family
and husband (for various lengths of time), and her constant battle with
tuberculosis, Bond consistently put her "trust in a Higher Power,"
whom she believed would not forsake her (p. 196). Religion provided a constant
source of strength and comfort. Her move to Louisiana removed her from her
Methodist church since she joined the Presbyterian church, to which her husband
belonged.
While this was not too hard of a transition, she frequently commented on
the stark contrast between her religious beliefs and the large number of Catholic inhabitants in her new state. As the
war progressed, however, her intolerance for what she perceived as the odd
customs of the Catholics became less
intense as she became more tolerant of religious beliefs that differed from the ones she held.
Bond's diary also illustrates the way in
which the war became all consuming and indeed politicized some women. During the
first portion of her diary she is concerned with the immediate events
surrounding her life, which include everything from church to visiting, to her
intense desire to become a better Christian and improve her moral standing. As
the war begins to take shape, Bond records events that were taking place on a
national level. While her sympathies remained with the Confederacy, by the
middle of the war she longed for peace on any terms. She also recorded the
major military battles as she heard of them. Although Bond is not always
correct in her information, such as her belief that the battle of "Bull's
Run, and Manasses" were two separate battles fought in 1861, Harrison's
notes correct and clarify Bond's mistakes (p. 203).
Harrison's approach to this edited volume
is commendable. The introduction not only demonstrates extensive research, but
also provides enough background information to fill in the gaps in Bond's diary
so that it presents a coherent narrative of her life during the war. By
providing an overview of "Principal Friends and Family" as well as
"Frequently Mentioned Places," Harrison allows for a quick point of
reference to the many characters mentioned. Harrison's excellent command of the
literature and judicious editing make this book an excellent addition to the
recent historical scholarship on women during the Civil War.
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(December, 2006)
Thomas P. Lowry. _Confederate Heroines:
120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 2006. xvii + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8071-2990-9.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Ethan S. Rafuse,
Department of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Trying Southern Women
During the last decade and a half, Thomas
P. Lowry, M.D., has carved out a distinctive place for himself among Civil War
historians. He has done this by seeking out and uncovering previously unknown
or relatively obscure sources and using them to produce informative studies on
topics that have yet to receive much attention from historians. Included among
these works are studies of military court-martials, an overview of sex during
the Civil War, and an examination of how Abraham Lincoln dealt with cases from
the military justice system that came to his attention.[1] In _Confederate
Heroines_, Lowry applies his fine research and writing skills to the task of
uncovering and chronicling over one hundred cases in which southern women were
arrested and tried by Federal military courts for various crimes during the
war.
Lowry has produced an interesting and
informative book. He sets up his study with a preface and an introduction that
briefly discuss nineteenth-century ideas regarding women's roles in Northern and
Southern society, how scholarship has been distinguished by an increase in
interest recently in the various roles women played in the Civil War, and how
the stories of the women in his book in particular "can be seen as
evidence of the tectonic, if temporary shifts in the dynamic between men and
women" that occurred in the Civil War (p. ix). These are followed by a
chapter on cases from Missouri, Maryland, and Tennessee in which readers are
introduced to individuals such as Zeidee Bagwell of St. Louis; when her letter,
expressing devotion to the Confederacy, happened to come into the possession of
Union authorities in the city, she was sentenced to confinement in her home,
directed to take an oath of allegiance to the Union, and forced to post a
$1000.00 bond.
Readers also learn of the remarkable case
of Mary S. Terry of Maryland, who was arrested for smuggling when she was found
in possession of nearly $2000.00 worth of contraband goods. Even though this
was not the first time she had come to the attention of the military justice
system for such offenses, the military commission trying her case initially
decided to impose a fairly light punishment, requiring only that she take the
oath of allegiance, accept a parole on her honor, and stay north of New Jersey's
southern border. When the commission's decisions were sent to Gen. Lew Wallace
for review, however, they provoked an exasperated and interesting response.
Wallace complained that the court had imposed much too light a sentence for a
woman who was demonstrated to be "an intelligent, bold, defiant,
energetic, masculine Rebel, bent on mischief," and he asked how the
commission could possibly "give faith to the honor of such an unsexed
merchant" (pp. 50-51), before compelling the commission to reconsider its
findings. The commission responded by revising the sentence to a one-year
imprisonment in a female prison in Salem, Massachusetts. As if this was not
enough, it was soon thereafter discovered that there was no female prison in
Salem. Consequently, Terry ended up being sent to the female prison in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, an institution that saw a number of the women whose
experiences are chronicled in this book pass through its gates.
Entertaining stories similar to Bagwell's
and Terry's are also found in a subsequent chapter on cases involving women
such as Emily Sparks, Rebecca Field, Annie Egan, and Elizabeth Ball from the
ten states south of the northern borders of North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas. This is followed by a chapter on cases from Kentucky, Virginia, and
the District of Columbia. Although not all of the episodes chronicled in
Lowry's book are as interesting as the one involving Terry, there is much here
to satisfy those looking for good stories and information on an aspect of nineteenth-century
America that has yet to receive much attention from historians.
Readers looking for more than good stories
will be somewhat disappointed, though. Other than noting that the task of
catching these women, trying them, and working through the appeals process in
these cases consumed manpower and energy that could have been put to better use
for the Union cause, Lowry offers few insights that add much of great
significance to our understanding of the course and conduct of the Civil War.
Nor does he make much of an effort to build on observations contained in his
introduction regarding how the war shaped or reflected social, cultural,
military, political, or legal forces that were at work during the Middle
Period. Lowry might have offered some analysis and insights of a general nature
that could have placed his findings in the context of extant scholarship in his
epilogue. Unfortunately, this section of the book instead consists solely of a
summarization of his findings (that prosecutions for smuggling were
concentrated in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Maryland; Missouri provided nearly
all of the cases of active support for guerrilla activities, assistance to
Confederate prisoners of war seeking to escape, and the largest number of women
caught corresponding with rebel soldiers; and that Washington D.C. was the
principle location where women were tried for assisting Union soldiers to
desert) and a commentary on sources. Still, in the final analysis, Lowry
deserves considerably more praise than criticism for this book. Readers who
have enjoyed his previous works will find this a welcome addition to their
libraries, for, in addition to providing further evidence of Lowry's keen
abilities as a historical detective, Confederate Heroines is a
well-written, entertaining, and fairly easy read that adds a great deal of
interesting information to Civil War literature.
Note [1]. Thomas P. Lowry, _Tarnished
Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels_
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998); with Jack D. Welsh, _Tarnished
Scalpels: The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons_ (Mechanicsburg, PA:
Stackpole Books, 2000); _The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil
War_ (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994); and _Don't Shoot That Boy!
Abraham Lincoln and Military Justice_ (Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing,
1999).
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Editors Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes
Tobin
Date Submitted: 2007-01-29
Announcement ID: 155220
We invite proposals for essays for a
collection titled Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950. This
collection invites scholars to consider women’s engagement with the material
world, from the most ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most
extraordinary, life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year
period of 1750 to1950.
Since material culture encompasses all
human-made objects, the possibility of topics is wide open so long as they
connect women to things. Therefore, topics might include, but are certainly not
limited to: fiber arts (needlework, quilting, knitting, crocheting); decorative
arts; other kinds of crafts; painting; sculpture; scrapbooks; albums; china;
porcelain; architecture; interior design; landscape and gardening; shopping;
clothing; fashion; and food. The focus might be on all or part of the
life-cycle of an object, from design, to production, to circulation, to
consumption, to commodification, to valuation, to collection and display.
Please send your 250-500-word proposal and
a CV as electronic attachments in MS-word or RTF format to Beth Fowkes Tobin
(beth.tobin@asu.edu) and Maureen Daly Goggin (maureen.goggin@asu.edu) by March
30, 2007.
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
Arizona State University
Department of English
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480-965-3535
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