Lecture: Dr. Nina Silber On Women And The American Civil War

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor Dr. Nina Silber, author of Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War and Gender and the Sectional Conflict, offers a complex account of the activities and attitudes of women in the North during the Civil War, and compares their role to that of women in the Confederacy. Northern women's wartime participation in