Women's War - Mccurry, Stephanie
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The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women¿s place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been¿and continue to be¿in all wars.

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The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women¿s place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been¿and continue to be¿in all wars.
Autorenporträt
Stephanie McCurry is the author of Confederate Reckoning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Merle Curti Prize, the Avery O. Craven Award, and the Willie Lee Rose Prize; and Masters of Small Worlds, winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize and four other awards. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. McCurry is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University. She grew up in Belfast, Ireland, during the Troubles.