Oct

Civil War Women

Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & Diaries

The blog Civil War Women provides a great deal of useful information about individual women during the Civil War era. The information is largely biographical, but many entries use primary resources to substantiate the stories. The women are divided into categories: wives of generals, nurses, African-Americans, civilians, diarists, soldiers, spies, teachers, writers, doctors, and activists. […]

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Oct

Grant-Burr Family Papers

Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Letters & Diaries

The American Antiquarian Society, an independent research library, has provided a digital collection of the Grant-Burr family papers on their website. The letters in this collection were written between the years 1827-1892, and a majority of the correspondence is between Daniel Grant and his wife Caroline Burr Grant. There are over 500 letters, covering a […]

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Oct

Sallie Bingham Center at Duke University

Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Letters & Diaries, Lists, Places to Visit

Duke University’s Sallie Bingham Center is an invaluable resource for studying the life and culture of American women. While the collection covers a broad range of topics on all aspects of women’s history, its strength is in Southern women and there are a great deal of resources pertaining specifically to the 19th century. This page […]

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Oct

Magazines for Children in the 19th Century

Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Lesson Plans, Lists

Understanding family life in the 19th century necessitates a look at what was popular with children at the time. This website, put together by an English professor at West Chester University, lists periodicals for children published in the nineteenth century, each of which includes a chronological list of its important articles and links to a digital copy. The magazine […]

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