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The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America - Virtual

Celebrate Women's History Month with Author Robert C. Plumb

2021-03-12 15:00:00 2021-03-12 16:00:00 America/New_York The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America - Virtual Historian Robert C. Plumb will discuss his new book “The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America” released in March 2020. Virtual Branch -

Friday, March 12
3:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-03-12 15:00:00 2021-03-12 16:00:00 America/New_York The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America - Virtual Historian Robert C. Plumb will discuss his new book “The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America” released in March 2020. Virtual Branch -

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.

Join us for this special presentation in honor and celebration of Women's History Month. 

Join us in Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91581054923

Or Dial In: 301 715 8592  Meeting ID: 915 8105 4923

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