The Women's War

THE WOMEN'S WARThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Stephanie M. McCurry, professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of a number of books on the Civil War era, including Masters of Small Worlds (1997) and, most recently, Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (2019). We talked about the great diversity in women’s experiences—northern and southern, white and black—during the conflict.Welcome to The 1864 Project. We hope you’ll join us. ©2026 by The Civil War Monitor. All rights reserved.