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Helping Wounded Soldiers And Anxious Families: The United States Sanitary Commission And The Origin Of Modern Philanthropy In The United States, Martin L. Novom
Helping Wounded Soldiers And Anxious Families: The United States Sanitary Commission And The Origin Of Modern Philanthropy In The United States, Martin L. Novom
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This thesis explores an aspect of the American Civil War, the federally authorized civilian effort to assist the Medical Department of the U. S. Army, known as the United States Sanitary Commission. This work covers its active years, 1861-1865, and the Commission leaders based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. It also pays attention to women throughout the North who populated some 7000 Ladies Aid Societies established to help support the Commission. The leaders and the women shared the same goal, to improve the health care for wounded and ill Union soldiers. The Ladies Aid Societies also created a …
Humans And Nonhumans Becoming Political: Memphis Women's March Assemblages, Margaret Ann King
Humans And Nonhumans Becoming Political: Memphis Women's March Assemblages, Margaret Ann King
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In this post-qualitative feminist study, object-interviews with women who participated in the Memphis Womens March (MWM) and nonhuman objects were used to explore the interconnections of the MWM and the women and the nonhuman objects, and the relational knowledge generated by the interconnections between humans (e.g., the women who marched, other marchers) and nonhumans (e.g., posters, banners, t-shirts, pink pussyhats, and/or photographs). This study is significant in two ways. First, this post-qualitative feminist study attends to the interconnections of the MWM and the women and the signs. Second, this study will contribute to current post-qualitative work by utilizing object-interviews to …