books by Suzanne Lebsock

books by Suzanne Lebsock

books:

Suzanne Lebsock

Suzanne Lebsock

W. W. Norton & Company, 1985

How Free?
The book focuses on women's work in an antebellum southern town. Excluding slave women, Lebsock seems to claim working women enjoyed a certain amount of freedom and independence. She also portrays the middle class as accepting married white women as wage earners as ...

Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past

Duke University Press, 1994

Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women?s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in this field over the past twenty years. This ...

A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy (The Museum of the Confederacy)
John M. Coski, Drew Gilpin Faust, ...

University of Virginia Press, 1997

During the Civil War, the enlistment of three out of every four white men of military age altered forever the structures of southern society, burdening white women with unaccustomed responsibilities and offering slave women new hardships and new opportunities. Yet, despite the wealth of books on the Civil War experience, there have been few that ...

Visible Women: NEW ESSAYS ON AMERICAN ACTIVISM (Women in American History)

University of Illinois Press, 1993

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial

Suzanne Lebsock

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

History that reads like fiction
This book is an exceptionally well written account of an almost forgotten murder from rural 1895 Virginia, and the racial and political outcome of the various trials involved. As a practicing attorney, I found much of the courtroom action fascinating, particularly how ...