In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke discuss gender bias in history textbooks-- and basically why you shouldn't use them. Then we examine the fascinating lives of women who crossdressed to fight and spy in the Civil War. 

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Bibliography

Abbot, Karen. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014.

Clark, Alexis. "After the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman Led a Brazen Civil War Raid Tubman applied intelligence she learned as an Underground Railroad conductor to lead the Combahee Ferry Raid that freed more than 700 from slavery." History. Last modified November 1, 2019. https://www.history.com/news/harriet-tubman-combahee-ferry-raid-civil-war.

Edmonds, Sarah Emma. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields. Hartford: W. S. Williams & Co., 1865.

History Editors. "Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War: Find out more about Rose O'Neal Greenhow and three other female informants who played a significant role in America’s bloodiest conflict." History. Last modified May 20, 2020. https://www.history.com/news/secret-agents-in-hoop-skirts-women-spies-of-the-civil-war. 

Lewis, Jone Johnson. "Female Spies for the Union." ThoughtCo. Last modified June 25, 2020. https://www.thoughtco.com/female-spies-for-the-union-3528661.

Powelson, Benjamin F, photographer. Portrait of Harriet Tubman / Powelson, photographer, 77 Genesee St., Auburn, New York. New York, 1868. [Auburn, N.Y.: Benjamin Powelson, or 1869] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018645050/.

"Spies." National Park Service. Last modified April 23, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/spies.htm#:~:text=Confederate%20women%20spies%2C%20such%20as,exploits%20in%20a%20Romantic%20age.