Women and the Civil War

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Helen McClelland Conference Room, Pennsylvania Hospital

Professor Giesberg will discuss the activities of woman during the Civil War. She is the author of several books on the Civil War including Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women 's Politics in Transition (Northeastern University Press); “Army at Home": Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (University of North Carolina Press); Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War ( Pennsylvania Historical Association Series); as well as numerous articles.