Past Conference Summary
1st – 21st Conferences
on Women and the Civil War:
Lists of Topics Featured
Occupations / Wartime Roles
·
Arsenal
employee [includes arsenal disasters] (2)
·
Artist
·
Civil
Servant (2)
· Composer
·
Dress
maker / seamstress (5)
·
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
(7)
·
Strategist
·
Teacher
(2)
·
Telegraph
operator (2)
·
Vivandiere (2)
·
Writer
/ author (3)
Historical
Topics
·
“camp follower”
·
Children
·
Clothing
(3)
·
Confederate
Memory (4)
·
Copperheads
·
Courtship
·
Education
[female] (2)
·
Flags
(3)
·
Going
west
·
Homefront
turning into the warfront
·
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
/ Living History (2)
·
Writing
and Publishing (4)
Minority Populations
·
African
American Women (16)
·
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
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal
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
Preston, Margaret Junkin
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
·
Shenandoah
Valley, 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
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Updated: July 27, 2022