Walking Tour: Women of Civil War Alexandria
/I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
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I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
Read MoreThe post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.
Read MorePost-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.
Read MoreThe story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.
Read MoreChar McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.
Read MoreWith my own research in mind, I can't resist proposing Julia Wilbur and Harriet Jacobs as two other real-life heroines of Mercy Street.
Read MoreLast Saturday, I spoke about Julia Wilbur and Civil War Alexandria in the Special Collections Branch of the Alexandria Library.
Read MoreTo kick off the D.C. Historical Studies conference, historian Eric Foner spoke to a very full auditorium at the National Archives last night on "Reconstruction and the Fragility of Democracy."
Read MoreThe Alexandria Archaeological Commission awarded me its Outstanding Researcher Award at a ceremony at City Hall last week.
Read MoreI am back from giving a presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Women and the Civil War--a great meeting and weekend. My own presentation on Julia Wilbur was well received.
Read MoreI gave a presentation at the Lyceum (historical aside: built in 1839, used as a hospital during the Civil War, Julia visited on a number of occasions) this past week for the Alexandria Historical Society. My husband found the most exciting part was my reserved parking space in Old Town Alexandria. So even though this photo makes my look like Mr. Magoo, here it is.
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre's website with a focus on her forthcoming biography on abolitionist Julia Wilbur.