Catherine Gourley

Take an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine and play. Lavishly illustrated spreads feature historical photos, cutaway scenes and fascinating facts. Color illustrations throughout.

Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774

Take an in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, featuring city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements and more. Lavishly illustrated spreads feature historical photos, cutaway scenes and fascinating facts. Color illustrations throughout.

Growing Up in America's New Century

Welcome to Samantha's World, 1904

War, women, and the news

Read If You Dare (The Best of Read)

A biography of the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from a life on a reservation to a career on the stage.

Who Is Maria Tallchief?

A look at how the media can alter the perceptions of the public, making people believe what they are shown, includes historical notes of how media manipulation existed even in the Civil War.

A Behind-the-scenes Look at Media Manipulations

Media Wizards

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1950s and 1960s and how they changed women's role in society.

Perceptions of Women in the 195s and 196s

Gidgets and Women Warriors

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women from the turn of the century through the end of World War I and how they changed women's role in society.

Perceptions of Women from 19 to 1918

Gibson Girls and Suffragists

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War?but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant. The diaries describe appalling conditions in which vermin-infested men were crowded into an open stockade with a single befouled stream as their water source. Food was scarce and medical supplies virtually nonexistent. The bodies of those who did not survive the night had to be cleared away each morning. Designed to house 10,000 Yankee prisoners, Andersonville held 32,000 during August 1864. Nearly a third of the 45,000 prisoners who passed through the camp perished. Exposure, starvation, and disease were the main causes, but excessively harsh penal practices and even violence among themselves contributed to the unprecedented death rate. At the end of the war, outraged Northerners demanded retribution for such travesties, and they received it in the form of the trial and subsequent hanging of Captain Henry Wirz, the prison’s commandant. The trial was the subject of legal controversy for decades afterward, as many people felt justice was ignored in order to appease the Northerners’ moral outrage over the horrors of Andersonville. The story of Andersonville is a complex one involving politics, intrigue, mismanagement, unfortunate timing, and, of course, people - both good and bad. Relying heavily on first-person reports and legal documents, author Catherine Gourley gives us a fascinating look into one of the most painful incidents of U.S. history.

Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison

The Horrors of Andersonville

Examines how popular culture during the Great Depression and later during the Second World War influenced the lives of women.

Perceptions of Women in the 193s and 194s

Rosie and Mrs. America

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.

Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 192s

Flappers and the New American Woman

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s and how they brought about major changes for women.

Perceptions of Women from the 197s Through the 199s

Ms. and the Material Girls

Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.

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