African American women used fine clothing and fashionable accessories ... (Source: Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, pp. 59, 69, 76) In Civil War America, feminine frills and furbelows ...

Why weren’t women allowed to fight in the Civil War? At the time ... and just kind of layered on clothes, wore loose clothing, cut their hair short and rubbed dirt on their faces.

The exhibit "Divided Loyalties: Civil War Documents from the Missouri ... as well as in need of clothing, Lindsay and other women came up with a plan. Lindsay took the drugs from a drug store ...

The women research the food ... a fashion show every year to educate people about the many layers that Civil War era clothing entailed. Gagnon said that the underpinnings of 19th century clothing ...

"And just kind of layered on clothes, wore loose clothing, cut their hair ... a common ailment for Civil War soldiers. Most women who were discovered posing as men during the war were found ...

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War exhibit. The display highlights the essential ...

She is a tall, stately woman, who was wearing wool trousers and a long-sleeved checked shirt in spite of ... They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War. The book takes its title ...

In the American antebellum period, precise and strict rules were recommended for women’s socially acceptable and appropriate behavior. But the Civil War would change the social, economic ...

Gender-based violence was “brutal, persistent and continuous” during the War of Independence and the Civil War and was used particularly by the National Army against anti-Treaty women, an ...

The women who "rose to the occasion and played a remarkable role in the Civil War" is the theme of an exhibition called The Weaker Vessel? Historian Stuart Orme said the Biblical phrase was used ...