Failure to Thrive: Gender, Disability, and Failed Expectations in the Civil War Era

Society of Civil War Historians 1
Friday, January 2, 2015: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Conference Room J (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
Chair:
Nancy Bercaw, Smithsonian Institution
Papers:
"I Shall Try and Be a Man": Institutionalized Union Veterans in the Civil War North
Sarah Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
"As Few Able Bodied Men as Possible Will be Allowed to Gather on the Place": Emancipation, Disability, and Dependence in Union-Occupied Louisiana
William Pritchard, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
“How Long Will It Be before I Can Clasp My Wife and Little Ones to My Breast!” The Civil War as a Crisis in Fatherhood
John Riley, Binghamton University (State University of New York)
Comment:
Brian Craig Miller, Emporia State University
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