Stepdaughters of History by Catherine Clinton

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Reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Catherine Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and black women's contributions remain shrouded in myth and sidelined in traditional historical narratives.

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Stepdaughters of History by Catherine Clinton

Reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Catherine Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and black women's contributions remain shrouded in myth and sidelined in traditional historical narratives.
Catherine Clinton is Gilbert Denman Endowed Chair of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio and International Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of over a dozen books, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South; The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century; Tara Revisited: Women, War, and the Plantation Legend; Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars; Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom; and Mrs. Lincoln: A Life. She currently serves as president of the Southern Historical Association.
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ISBN 13 9780807176221
ISBN 10 0807176222
Title Stepdaughters of History
Author Catherine Clinton
Series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures In Southern History
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 2021-09-30
Number of pages 168
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