Past Conference Summary


Lists of Topics Featured
 
Occupations / Wartime Roles
 
  • Arsenal employee [includes arsenal disasters] (2)
  • Artist
  • Civil Servant (2)
  • Composer
  • Dress maker / seamstress (4)
  • Doctor (3)
  • Inventor
  • Journalist
  • Laundress
  • Lighthouse keeper
  • Mill worker
  • Nun (4)
  • Nurse & matron (15)
  • Relief Worker (6)
  • Riots (3)
  • Sex Worker (2)
  • Soldier (6)
  • Spy (6)
  • Strategist
  • Teacher (2)
  • Telegraph operator (2)
  • Vivandiere (2)
  • Writer / author (2)
 
 
Historical Topics
  • “camp follower”
  • Children
  • Clothing (3)
  • Confederate Memory (4)
  • Copperheads
  • Courtship
  • Education [female] (2)
  • Flags (3)
  • Going west
  • Material culture (2)
  • Mourning
  • Music
  • Pregnancy
  • The Press (4)
  • Rape
  • Religion / Spiritualism (3)
  • Sanitary Fairs (4)
  • Sewing machines
  • Union pensions (4)
  • Widowhood, wartime
  • Wives, military (4)
  • Women as prisoners (2)
  • Women’s roles, survey
  • Women on trial (4)
 
 
Contemporary Topics
 
  • Educational resources (3)
  • Historical research (19)
  • Historic Preservation [collections and sites] (6)
  • Presentations and Exhibits, how to (2)
  • Reenacting
  • Writing and Publishing (4)
 
 
Minority Populations
 
  • African American Women (15)
  • Indigenous Women
  • Jewish Women
  • Quakers (2)
 


 
Individual Women
 
Adams, Lois
Aklen, Adelicia
Ballou, Sarah
Barlow, Arabella
Barton, Clara
Bickerdyke, Mary Ann
Blaisdell, Marie
Brownell, Kady
Bucklin, Sophronia
Carroll, Anna Ella
Carter, Martha Williams
Cary, Hetty
Coston, Martha
Curd, Mary Hart
Cushman, Pauline
Cutler, Julia
Dame, Harriet P.
Davis, Varina Howell and Varina Anne
Dawes, Sarah C.
Ford, Antonia
French, Samantha
Fritchie, Barbara
Gates, Mary B.
Gilbert, Sarah A.
Grant, Julia
Green, Mary Jane
Hancock, Myra
Helm, Emilie Todd
Hewitt, Catharine M.
Hook, Frances
Howard, Elizabeth Key
Jackson, Marianna
Johnson, Jane S.
Jones, Clara
Judd, Elizabeth Hunn
Keckley, Elizabeth
Lane, Harriet
Lee, Mary Custis (2)
Lee, Mary Greenhow
Leith, Nellie Chase
Lewis, Maria (2)
Mason, Emily Virginia
McKaig, Priscilla
Moore, Ellen
Noye, Helen
Otey, Lucy Mina
Payne, Kitty
Phelps, Elizabeth
Ream, Vinnie
Reddon, Laura
Reed, Mary
Saxon, Elizabeth
Smart, Almira Curtis
Stewart, Sally
Sullivan, Mary
Surratt, Mary (2)
Tubman, Harriet
Van Metre, Betty
Wilbur, Julia
Wilson, Eliza
Wright, Rebecca M.
 
 
Organizations
Christian Commission
Gettysburg National Homestead
Nancy Hart Militia
Mount Vernon Ladies Association
Women’s Relief Corps
 

 
Geographic Locations (“women of”)
States:
  • Arkansas (2)
  • Delaware
  • Kentucky
  • Maryland (2)
  • North Carolina (2)
  • Ohio
  • Virginia (3)
 
Regions and Counties:
  • Antietam area of MD (2)
  • Chester Co., PA
  • Coal Region of PA
  • Northern VA
  • Western VA
  • Twin Rivers area of TN
 
Cities and Towns:
  • Albany, NY
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Baltimore, MD (2)
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Gettysburg, PA (2)
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Marietta, OH
  • Memphis, TN
  • New Market, VA
  • Richmond, VA (2)
  • Washington, DC
  • Williamsburg, VA
  • Wheeling, WV
  • Yorktown, VA
 
 
 
Document Updated: July 27, 2021