American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of pretending ...

Louisa May Alcott's classic Civil War novel Little Women is truly ... we've rounded up the best Little Women quotes taken from the book's four main themes. Keep scrolling for more.

Over the course of 87 years of nearly ceaseless activity, Higginson had been a teacher, minister, state legislator, fiery abolitionist, women’s-rights advocate, colonel of a regiment of ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

Here evangelistic fervor combined with a stern Calvinist theology of predestination -- the belief that the fate of all men and women had been ... The toll of the Civil War led Lincoln to undertake ...

"In the days after the Civil War, being a Black Republican meant something vastly different than today," an excerpt from “The Grift” reads. The book opens by highlighting how both parties ...