The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 (Caroline Winterer - W) Gettysburg photographs stories in military history

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(A future volume in the works will examine the related Seven Pines combat)

The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 (Caroline Winterer - W) Gettysburg photographs stories in military historyby Caroline Winterer In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how