Catherine Clinton

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.

Describes the Civil War battle of Morris Island, South Carolina, during which Sargeant William H. Carney became the first African American to earn a Congressional Medal of Honor by preserving the flag.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.

In the 19th century, women were pioneers; they migrated West across the Mississippi and had a major role in settling a new and hostile land. But they also were pathbreakers in the struggle against their inferior political and economic position. They were educators and suffragists, reformers and wartime nurses, artists and physicians. Women participants forged links with the major campaigns of the century: abolition, temperance, populism, socialism....

"A Diary from Dixie first published in the United States of America by D. Appleton and Company, 1905. This edition with an introduction by Catherine Clinton published in Penguin Books 2011"--T.p. verso.

Presents a collection of more than twenty poems by American women published between 1678 and 2001.