Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

A study that challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism.

Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for who

Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and

During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organi

When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her