women

Explores the place of women in America between 1775 and 1827. Charts the creation of the Daughters of Liberty and reveals how women began fighting for their rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. Features full-color illustrations throughout.

Presents information on several aspects of the U.S. military, including its history, problems and controversies, and its comparison to militaries around the world, and includes biographical sketches, primary documents, annotated directories of organizations, and print and nonprint resources.

Examines the experiences of nine Civil War women including abolitionist Lucy Stone and freed slave Susie King Taylor and offers nine projects for period quilts and creative activities related to each woman's story.

Presents information on the role of American women in World War II, including descriptions of the history of women in U.S. military operations, and how they served back home in the Women's Auxilary Corps. Includes glossary.

Provides excerpts from letters, books, newspaper articles, speeches, and diaries which express various thoughts about the experiences of women and the families left behind during the Civil War.

Union widow Liberty Holloway's farm is confiscated and converted into a Confederate field hospital. The books in this series are based on first-person accounts from Gettysburg women whose letters and journals were written during the battle and its aftermath.

Documents the Battle of Gettysburg through the views of women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. Features the experiences of Mag Palm, a free black woman who was threatened by the arrival of the Confederate Army; Carl Schurz, a German exile and abolitionist for the Union Army; and Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old girl who assisted a Union doctor at a field hospital.

Reveals how women influenced the course of the Civil War and transformed their own lives in the process.