About the Author

Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books includeSouthern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War and The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.

Reviews

"Faust has the sensibility that I most admire in a historian: the capacity to enter imaginatively into a world very different from our own and to write about it with understanding and sympathy even when we find that world morally abhorrent."
-- Gordon S. Wood, "Wall Street Journal"

A dramatically revealing study of how the war altered these women's identities.Josephine Humphreys, "New York Times Book Review"

Among the finest of recent histories of American women.Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "New York Review of Books"

"A dramatically revealing study of how the war altered these women's identities.Josephine Humphreys, "New York Times Book Review""

"Among the finest of recent histories of American women.Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "New York Review of Books""

A wonderfully researched chronicle of a largely unexamined social elite that enriches the fields of Civil War and women's studies."Kirkus Reviews"

Faust makes a major contribution to both Civil War historiography and women's studies in this outstanding analysis."Publishers Weekly"

It is one of the most admirable recent volumes of American social history."Booklist"

"Faust makes a major contribution to both Civil War historiography and women's studies in this outstanding analysis.
("Publishers Weekly)"