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  • Published: 8 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307272935
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Civil War Wives

The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant





In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day.  Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.

  • Published: 8 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307272935
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Carol Berkin

Carol Berkin, professor of American history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, First Generations, and Jonathan Sewall. She lives in New York City

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