Streaming the War: Elizabeth Van Lew, the Richmond Underground, and Amazon Prime’s The Grey House
Union spymaster Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900), circa 1865. Portrayed by actress Daisy Head in The Grey House, she risked everything she had for the Union. Photo courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation. Amazon Prime Video’s recent Civil War drama series The Gray House presents a fictionalized account of Union spy ...
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Women and Gender History of the Civil War Era: A Roundtable
We are delighted to publish three essays on women’s history of the Civil War Era by three leading scholars in the field. This roundtable draws on a lively session at last summer’s Society of Civil War Historians conference. Together these pieces provide a wide-ranging assessment of the field as a ...
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Why We Should Forget the Civil War
Nearly twenty years ago, now, in a 2002 review essay on women in the Civil War, Thavolia Glymph concluded that “the period of the Civil War and Reconstruction remains the most racially gendered and regionally segregated historiographical space in US history.” Surveying the first wave of literature on the period ...
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Introductory Remarks: The Study of Gender and the Civil War
When we began planning for the SCWH 2020 conference, one critical component of our planning entailed a special plenary that would survey the field of gender and Civil War history. This is a field of long-standing interest for me, going back to the publication of the co-edited collection I did ...
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