Virtual Meet with Author Robert Plumb

The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

Historian Robert C. Plumb will discuss his new book “The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America” released in March 2020.

In this collective biography, author Robert C. Plumb traces these five remarkable women’s (Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale) awakenings to analyze how their experiences shaped their responses to the challenges, disappointments, and joys they encountered on their missions.

These five women came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City’s elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War. Their actions became strands in a tapestry of courage, truth, and patriotism that influenced the lives of millions—and illuminated a new way forward for the nation.

After he retired from the corporate world, Plumb began researching and writing what would become Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier’s Odyssey. He received a grant to conduct research for this project from the Tawani Foundation, parent organization of The Pritzker Military Library in Chicago.  His second book, The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America, was published in March 2020 by the University of Nebraska Press.  He has spoken on Civil War topics throughout the Eastern and Middle Atlantic states.

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Join us in Zoom: Friday, August 28, 2:00 PM ET (1:00 PM CT/ 12:00 PM MT/ 11:00 AM PT)

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