American Women and the U.S. Armed Forces
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American Women and the U.S. Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women
Compiled by Charlotte Palmer Seeley
Revised by Virginia C. Purdy and Robert Gruber
"This volume . . .clearly and helpfully explains the organizational logic of the complex holdings of the National Archives relating to women and the military."
--Journal of Military History
"This publication will be especially welcomed by the increasing number of historians who believe that history cannot be fully told without including the role of women."
--The North Carolina Historical Review
"A fascinating addition to the growing field of women's studies."
--American Libraries
This important guide describes records in the National Archives and Presidential libraries that relate to American women who interacted with and eventually formed a part of the Nation's military service organizations.
Covering the last two centuries, the records highlighted in this volume discuss women as participants in and victims of war, suppliers of military goods and services, and wives and mothers of soldiers. The documents include those of the armed services as well as the War Department collections of Revolutionary War and Confederate records. A comprehensive name and subject index and four appendixes are included. Researchers will find the guide an excellent starting point in the study of the role of the US Government in the lives of American women.
6" x 9", 367 pages, 18 illustrations
National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
#100022 Hardcover $25
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