Category: Women and Gender
New Exhibit on African American Portraits Before Emancipation at Yale University Art Gallery
Artist Mickalene Thomas has put together an intriguing exhibit a the Yale University Art Gallery of portraits of African Americans in the pre-Emancipation period of…
New Opera in Houston Focuses on the Van Lew/Bowser Spy Ring in Richmond During Civil War
The Houston Grand Opera is opening a brand new work of opera on the spy ring in Richmond during the Civil War led by Elizabeth…
Army Base Named After Civil War Medal of Honor Winner Dr. Mary Walker
Last Friday, the Army renamed Fort A.P. Hill as Fort Walker. Dr. Mary Walker was a Civil War veteran who was the first woman to…
Civil War Nurse Is Honored By Having Savannah Square Named After Her
Susie King Taylor is honored by the City of Savannah by having one of the city’s famous squares named after her. She is the first…
Lavinia C. Thompson-The Personal Story of Slavery and Civil War Webinar May 20, 2023
The new International African American Museum (IAAM) in charleston is offering another virtual program on South Carolina history. Here is the museum’s description of the…
Harriet Tubman Grave Auburn Photo Tour
Harriet Tubman moved to Auburn, New York shortly before the Civil War. While she was away from her home there for much of the Civil…
NY Times Asks: Was Louisa May Alcott a Woman?
Peyton Thomas, the host of the Jo’s Boys Little Women Podcast, stirred up controversy on Christmas Eve when he argued in the New York Times…
Photo Tour of NYU’s Outdoor Exhibit of the Black Soldiers of the USCT and Their Families
The Kimmel Windows Gallery at New York University has a new exhibit; The Black Civil War Soldier, that is on view until Feb. 28, 2023 along LaGuardia…
A Southern Belle Reflects on “the blessings American ‘slavery’ had brought to the…black men”
In her book A Belle of the Fifties the Confederate senator’s wife Virginia Clay wrote about slavery as though its principal purpose was to bring…
A Southern Belle Set a Child Molester Up as a Paragon of Christian Virtue for Black People
Virginia Clay-Cloptin was in her mid-30s when the Civil War began. The prominent wife of a United States senator who resigned from Congress when his…
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