Civil War Wives
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781400095780
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $36.00

Civil War Wives

The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant

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In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day.  Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781400095780
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

Carol Berkin

Carol Berkin, professor of American history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, First Generations, and Jonathan Sewall. She lives in New York City

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Praise for Civil War Wives

"Berkin's approach is feminist but hardly doctrinaire--her portraits of the three women in Civil War Wives are deeply researched and place them thoughtfully in the rich context of their times. . . . Using letters, books and other historical documents, Berkin paints a lively and empathetic picture of these women's lives." --St. Petersburg Times