Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: Material Culture, American Civil War, African American History and Culture, Emancipation, Anti-Slavery Movements, Abolition, Slavery, Gender, Race

Recent Publications: “Cultures of Confederate Military Clothing Production,” in Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, edited by Ted Ownby and Becca Walton. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

“Fitted Up for Freedom: The Material Culture of Refugee Camps,” in War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era, edited by Joan Cashin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

“‘Peeled’ Bodies, Pillaged Homes: Looting and Material Culture in the American Civil War Era,” in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement, edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

“The Dress of the Enemy: Clothing and Disease in the Civil War Era.” Civil War History vol. 63, no.2 (June 2017).

“Armor, Manhood and the Politics of Mortality,” in Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War, ed. Barton Hacker (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, May 2016).

“Quand l’uniforme fait l’homme libre:  Les soldats noirs dans la Guerre civile américaine (1861-1865)”(In English: “To Look Like Men of War: Visual Transformation Narratives of African American Union Soldiers”) Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire 40 (Objets et fabrication du genre), (Fall 2014): 137-152.

Expertise by Topic: American Civil War, American Founding Era, Emancipation, Gender, Military, Museums, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Slavery, Women