I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America After discovering that ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards for teaching and ...

HISTORY has documented that more than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies ...

The women who "rose to the occasion and played a remarkable role in the Civil War" is the theme of an exhibition called The Weaker Vessel? Historian Stuart Orme said the Biblical phrase was used ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

After World War Two, many women had to leave their jobs as men returned from fighting in the war and replaced them in the workforce. In the 1950s, more women began to challenge their roles as ...