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Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

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Women’s History Month, Fort Ward Virginia

The Fort Ward museum in Alexandria, Virginia held a program in celebration of Women’s History Month. The program highlighted the contributions of women during the Civil War; a few friends and I participated. We were stationed throughout the museum where visitors could interact with us and hear about women during the 1860s. There was a station discussing women’s work and medicine, clothing, female soldiers, and I discussed the support of […]

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2018 Conference Dress

I was invited to speak at the last Civilian Symposium held in Gettysburg. The speakers at the Symposium are given a length of fabric to make an item of clothing; generally the women make dresses and men make vests. I made a dress this year. Here is the fabric and my inspiration. The inspiration dress is from the collection at the Met, dated to 1860 and English.   This dress […]

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