Annotated Bibliography For Army At Home
Hannah Hart
HST 641
November 6, 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
While historians have comprehensively investigated Southern women and middle-class Northern women during the Civil War, there has been relatively little research on the working-class, rural, or African American women in the North. In her book, Army at Home, Giesberg exposes the shortcomings of this traditional historiography. Through the examination of letters, petitions, and lawsuits Giesberg is able to capture the stories of these marginalized Northern women while providing readers with a thematic, rather than chronological, approach in
HST 641
November 6, 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
While historians have comprehensively investigated Southern women and middle-class Northern women during the Civil War, there has been relatively little research on the working-class, rural, or African American women in the North. In her book, Army at Home, Giesberg exposes the shortcomings of this traditional historiography. Through the examination of letters, petitions, and lawsuits Giesberg is able to capture the stories of these marginalized Northern women while providing readers with a thematic, rather than chronological, approach in