Women, work, and worship in Lincoln's Country : the Dumville family letters / edited by Anne M. Heinz and John P. Heinz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252098130
- 0252098137
- Dumville family -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Correspondence
- Dumville family
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Women -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Middle class -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
- Middle West -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- Middle West -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Social aspects
- Middle class
- Social conditions
- Women
- Women -- Social life and customs
- Middle West
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1800-1899
- 305.409773/09034 23
- HQ1438.M53
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: the provenance and transcription of the letters -- Acknowledgments -- The Dumvilles and their times -- 1851-1853 : Family matters -- 1854-1855 : Cholera -- 1856-1857 : Political awareness -- 1858-1860 : The Lincoln-Douglas elections -- 1861-1863 : the war -- The letters end -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Description based on print version record.
The intimate and the epic in the lives of four prairie women.
English.
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide