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
order to cover a multitude of aspects in the lives of Northern women. She does so by using a series of case studies to explore how different types of Northern women experienced the Civil War.
Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004. Print.
In her book, Women at the Front, Schultz thoroughly examines the work that Northern and Southern women of all sorts performed in Civil War in hospitals, as well as the ways their experiences affected their lives in the aftermath of the conflict. By discussing how “women began volunteering for hospital work before the medical departments of either section had adequately assessed the magnitude of their task” (15) Schultz is able to raise questions about traditional notions that women were working under the orders of men.The author effectively highlights these women, who have largely escaped historical recognition, as well as the implications of their diversity in terms of social class, race, religion, region and more. Through a comprehensive examination of written accounts, Schultz is able to thoroughly examine narrative voice, along with changing gender roles.
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
order to cover a multitude of aspects in the lives of Northern women. She does so by using a series of case studies to explore how different types of Northern women experienced the Civil War.
Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004. Print.
In her book, Women at the Front, Schultz thoroughly examines the work that Northern and Southern women of all sorts performed in Civil War in hospitals, as well as the ways their experiences affected their lives in the aftermath of the conflict. By discussing how “women began volunteering for hospital work before the medical departments of either section had adequately assessed the magnitude of their task” (15) Schultz is able to raise questions about traditional notions that women were working under the orders of men.The author effectively highlights these women, who have largely escaped historical recognition, as well as the implications of their diversity in terms of social class, race, religion, region and more. Through a comprehensive examination of written accounts, Schultz is able to thoroughly examine narrative voice, along with changing gender roles.