women during the u.s. civil war. you all read a primary source of documents, written by a woman who participated in the civil war, louisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. we will start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you and out ready to chat about the source. the big question that we are posing and investigating today is how did women s voluntarism shape their choices that they made during the civil war, there is two questions and how did the voluntarism influence the outcome or effect the outcome of the civil war. those are our overarching questions that we are looking at today. we start with louisa may alcott. and her hospital sketches which was published during the war, serialized and published, americans who read the magazine that was published could read about her experiences in a civil war era hospital. let s start i would like to hear your thoughts about this account of civil war hospitals. what did you
good afternoon, everyone. joining uso much for for the american civil war symposium. ordinary people, extraordinary times. t up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. she taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. she received her phd studying under dr. and dr. gallagher. dr. taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of georgia press is on civil war series. her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the united states. book derived from her dissertation provided family in the civil war. in 2005.published that book is the topic of her program today. i present to you dr. amy morel taylor. it is indeed a real pleasure to be ba
their existence in many ways had been wiped out. all of it. in the name of trying to create a safe- . dana: they are slamming her is anti-semitic and want to nancy pelosi to take action against the congresswoman, but she is refusing to back down, saying that critics are twisting her words in an effort to silence her and nancy pelosi tweeting that the desperate attempts to smear rashida to leave and misrepresent her comments are outrageous. the house g.o.p. should apologize. and the american people for their gross misrepresentation. we will take this around the table. greg, did the republicans hit the mark or a mistake? this is terrible for a monday, you are forcing me to defend this lady. i will defend her and then criticize her. first of all, the outrage over the holocaust phrasing is distracting from her actual legitimate mistake about history. she did not find the holocaust calming, she found the idea of palestinians providing safe haven to be calming. this is no bigge