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

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and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve

The activist 37th Congress legislated for homesteads and a transcontinental railroad and involved the federal government in education

While Grant and Lee grappled with one another like wrestlers

Amid the outpouring of public sympathy

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