Society for Women and the Civil War
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.Meg Galante-DeAngelis, Vice President and Newsletter Editor. Ms. Galante-DeAngelis teaches at the University of Connecticut in the School of Family Studies.
She is also a social historian and Associate of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. Ms. Galante-DeAngelis and her family reenact with
the 28th Massachusetts and with Columbia's Daughters.
Linda Lipscomb, Secretary. Ms Lipscomb serves as Administration and Event Coordinator of the Museum of the Confederacy. Since joining the staff in 2000,
she is the primary staff liaison with the Museum's Board of Trustees while also coordinating events and developing more non-military programs.
Juanita Leisch Jensen, President. Ms. Jensen is a researcher and author of the the books, Who Wore What: Women’s Wear, 1861-1865 and An Introduction
to Civil War Civilians. She served as Guest Curator for a exhibits at The Civil War Library & Museum in Philadelphia and the National Civil War Museum in
Harrisburg, PA. She was recently named a fellow by the Company of Military Historians.
Bonnie Mangan. Ms. Mangan is employed at the Library of Congress where she works for the Congressional Research Service as an Information Research
Specialist. She researched and wrote a screenplay about Elizabeth Jennings, an African American schoolteacher in New York City who won a court case against a
trolley company that barred her from riding on the trolley.
Patricia Richard. Ms. Richard has been an Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has taught courses on the U.S. Civil War and
Reconstruction, the U.S. and Vietnam and U.S. history survey courses at Metro and other universities in the United States. She is the author of Busy Hands:
Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort with Fordham University Press.
Rebecca Rose, Membership Director. Rebecca Rose, Membership Director Ms. Rose is the Registrar at the Virginia Historical Society. She worked at The
Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA for twenty years as the Director of Collections, Registrar and Curator of the Flag Collection. Her specialty is the
research and preservation of Confederate flags. Rebecca was a co-presenter with Juanita Leisch at the 1998 Conference on Women and the Civil War, on the
topic of Women Producing, Presenting and Preserving Civil War Flags.
Robin Stokes, Treasurer. Ms Stoke is past president of the George W. Taylor Civil War Round Table in Clinton, NJ. She has prepared several exhibits for the
National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA including “Essential to the Cause”, an exhibit on Women’s roles in the Civil War and “Spirit of Young America”, an
exhibit on children. She served on the board of the Civil War Artifact Forum, and helped to organize both conferences sponsored by that organization. She taught
has researched and constructed numerous Civil War period costumes that have been used in documentaries for PBS, the History Channel and the National Park
Service, most recently “Christmas during the Civil War”, for the Discovery Channel.
Susan Youhn. Ms. Youhn serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Point Lookout State Park, site of a Civil War Hospital and Prison. Ms. Youhn is also
a member of the Maine Camp Hospital Association, a group of living historians reenacting the various roles of female nurses during the Civil War. In addition, Ms.
Youhn also reenacts with her family as members of the 20th Maine, Co. E .
She is also a social historian and Associate of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. Ms. Galante-DeAngelis and her family reenact with
the 28th Massachusetts and with Columbia's Daughters.
Linda Lipscomb, Secretary. Ms Lipscomb serves as Administration and Event Coordinator of the Museum of the Confederacy. Since joining the staff in 2000,
she is the primary staff liaison with the Museum's Board of Trustees while also coordinating events and developing more non-military programs.
Juanita Leisch Jensen, President. Ms. Jensen is a researcher and author of the the books, Who Wore What: Women’s Wear, 1861-1865 and An Introduction
to Civil War Civilians. She served as Guest Curator for a exhibits at The Civil War Library & Museum in Philadelphia and the National Civil War Museum in
Harrisburg, PA. She was recently named a fellow by the Company of Military Historians.
Bonnie Mangan. Ms. Mangan is employed at the Library of Congress where she works for the Congressional Research Service as an Information Research
Specialist. She researched and wrote a screenplay about Elizabeth Jennings, an African American schoolteacher in New York City who won a court case against a
trolley company that barred her from riding on the trolley.
Patricia Richard. Ms. Richard has been an Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has taught courses on the U.S. Civil War and
Reconstruction, the U.S. and Vietnam and U.S. history survey courses at Metro and other universities in the United States. She is the author of Busy Hands:
Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort with Fordham University Press.
Rebecca Rose, Membership Director. Rebecca Rose, Membership Director Ms. Rose is the Registrar at the Virginia Historical Society. She worked at The
Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA for twenty years as the Director of Collections, Registrar and Curator of the Flag Collection. Her specialty is the
research and preservation of Confederate flags. Rebecca was a co-presenter with Juanita Leisch at the 1998 Conference on Women and the Civil War, on the
topic of Women Producing, Presenting and Preserving Civil War Flags.
Robin Stokes, Treasurer. Ms Stoke is past president of the George W. Taylor Civil War Round Table in Clinton, NJ. She has prepared several exhibits for the
National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA including “Essential to the Cause”, an exhibit on Women’s roles in the Civil War and “Spirit of Young America”, an
exhibit on children. She served on the board of the Civil War Artifact Forum, and helped to organize both conferences sponsored by that organization. She taught
has researched and constructed numerous Civil War period costumes that have been used in documentaries for PBS, the History Channel and the National Park
Service, most recently “Christmas during the Civil War”, for the Discovery Channel.
Susan Youhn. Ms. Youhn serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Point Lookout State Park, site of a Civil War Hospital and Prison. Ms. Youhn is also
a member of the Maine Camp Hospital Association, a group of living historians reenacting the various roles of female nurses during the Civil War. In addition, Ms.
Youhn also reenacts with her family as members of the 20th Maine, Co. E .
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