The political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

Introduction: My sphere rounds out: Northern women and the written war

1. Rowing against wind and tide: how women wrote

2. Raising a voice: the Civil War begins in the 1850s

3. What can woman do? The rhetoric of unity, 1861-1863

4. A woman's road: crisis at midwar

5. Trying to find places: the question of African American freedom in the late war

6. Woman's part of glory: love, death, and work in women's writing, 1863-1865

7. The times form history: writing the war, 1865-1868

8. Still waiting: race and the politics of Reconstruction

9. A new emancipation: interpreting the war for tomorrow.