Dressed as men, women took on a wide range of military roles in the Civil War. Sarah Edmonds participated in the Peninsula Campaign as a soldier, spy, and courier—and even ended up working as a ...

involved in the Civil War. Most of these women took non-combat support roles, including nursing. It’s estimated that in the Union Army alone around 3,000 women served as nurses. However ...

Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s ...

During the 1960s, she became involved in peace and anti-war efforts such as ... many other women played essential roles in ...

The Women’s Fight is the story of women, both North and South, who made sacrifices in order to survive the Civil War, and how they contributed to ... and how they adopted non-traditional roles, which ...

In her latest book, Prof. McCurry (Columbia), the author of the prize-winning Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, takes a different look at the role of women in the Civil ...

employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate one of the most tumultuous periods in American history – the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The essays included shed new ...

Cindy Beaston has conversations with Civil War generals. “This is my friend, Pete Longstreet. I talk to him,’’ she said while ...

This is the third in a series on the six chosen as part of the annual Women Who Mean Business awards by the United Way of ...

Civil War embeds its audience in the turmoil of a ... Here, three men must determine which women have come to take their money, and which ones are really there to find love. No surprise: These ...

From director Alex Garland comes “Civil War,” a harrowing look at “what if?” conflict possibilities. Lee, portrayed in a quiet, commanding manner by Kirsten Dunst, is on the front lines of an ...