Women and the American Civil War An Annotated Bibliography

Subjects:

• History » American Civil War & Reconstruction History
• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)
• Military Studies » Military History

Awards:

• Best Bibliographies in History, RUSA History Section Bibliography and Indexes Committee
• College & Research Libraries Selected Reference Book 2003

Reviews:

• McDevitt's impressive scholarly work brings together writings, often difficult to locate in the massive Civil War literature, by and about women who contributed to the war effort in diverse ways. Ten topical chapters are arranged by women's participation as soldiers, scouts, or relief agents and by their less familiar roles in public life, as military or political wives, or on the wrong side of the law....no comparable work covers the breadth of women's participation in the Civil War. This bibliography will be the standard for years to come. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.
  —Choice April 2004
• This is an excellent, comprehensive and well-conceived volume ... it would be a useful guide for any Civil War historian to have to hand.
  —History October 2005
• With the tremendous interest in women's and minority studies and the Civil War, this work is invaluable. Including popular as well as scholarly materials, this bibliography is highly recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Summer 2005
• This book is, in a word, excellent....McDevitt's exhaustive research produced nearly eight hundred published sources (both traditional and Internet-based), all of which appear in her bibliography accompanied by thoughtful and critical annotation....McDevitt truly leaves no subject unexamined and no stone unturned. North and South, Union and Confederate, are fully represented. Iomen and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography is a remarkable acheivement, and a much-needed addition to bibliographies both in gender studies and in military history.
  —Military History 2004
• McDevitt's reference is extensive and exhaustive
  —Civil War Book Review March 2004
• [A]n excellent introduction to the topic, and one that lists all of the important resources and will be indispensable to reference librarians in libraries of all sizes.
  —College & Research Libraries

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Reference Works
• Introductory Works and Anthologies
• Soldier's Aid
• Medical and Relief Services
• Aid to Freed People
• Economic Challenges and Opportunities
• Women in the War Zone
• Spies, Scouts, Smugglers, and Raiders
• Women in Camp
• Other Topics Not Fully Explored
• Author Index
• Subject Index