Society for Women and the Civil War
| The Society Board of Directors 2008 - 2009 |
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Juanita Leisch Jensen President.
Ms Leisch Jensen is the author of "An Introduction to Civil War Civilians" and "Who Wore What: Women’s Wear, 1861-1865." In 2004, Jensen served as guest
curator for “Essential to the Cause: Women’s Roles in the Civil War” at the National Civil War Museum. She owns an extensive collection of clothing and
photographs, which she provides for temporary exhibits and special study projects to the DAR Museum, Gettysburg National Battlefield Park, and to Martha
McCain, fashion historian for Simplicity Patterns. She is a member of the Company of Military Historians which awarded her the Robert L. Miller Award in 2000.
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 museum 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.
Tim Daley, Treasurer.
Mr. Daley serves as Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Cleveland (Ohio) Masonic Library & Museum and Volunteer Program Director for the
Cuyahoga County Soldiers’& Sailors’ Monument in Cleveland, Ohio
Mary Louise Daley, Membership Director
Ms Daley serves as President of the Collinwood Nottingham Historical Society and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Early Settlers Association of the
Western Reserve. Mary Louise also is instrumental in program planning for Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument of Cleveland.
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.
Polly Steenhagen.
Ms Steenhagen is an associate professor at Delaware State University where she teaches mathematics and airway science. She has co-authored three
booklets with Dr. Silvana Siddali,on knitting and crochet patterns and is completing a fourth booklet with publisher La Mode Illustree. Additionally, she is also
working on a book detailing the contributions of Delaware women to the war effort. Ms. Steenhagen also does living history with AGSAS and the Tarheel
Civilians.
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 Metropolitan and other universities in the United States. She is the author of Busy Hands: Images of the
Family in the Northern Civil War Effort from Fordham University Press.
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, 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 .
Ms Leisch Jensen is the author of "An Introduction to Civil War Civilians" and "Who Wore What: Women’s Wear, 1861-1865." In 2004, Jensen served as guest
curator for “Essential to the Cause: Women’s Roles in the Civil War” at the National Civil War Museum. She owns an extensive collection of clothing and
photographs, which she provides for temporary exhibits and special study projects to the DAR Museum, Gettysburg National Battlefield Park, and to Martha
McCain, fashion historian for Simplicity Patterns. She is a member of the Company of Military Historians which awarded her the Robert L. Miller Award in 2000.
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 museum 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.
Tim Daley, Treasurer.
Mr. Daley serves as Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Cleveland (Ohio) Masonic Library & Museum and Volunteer Program Director for the
Cuyahoga County Soldiers’& Sailors’ Monument in Cleveland, Ohio
Mary Louise Daley, Membership Director
Ms Daley serves as President of the Collinwood Nottingham Historical Society and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Early Settlers Association of the
Western Reserve. Mary Louise also is instrumental in program planning for Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument of Cleveland.
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.
Polly Steenhagen.
Ms Steenhagen is an associate professor at Delaware State University where she teaches mathematics and airway science. She has co-authored three
booklets with Dr. Silvana Siddali,on knitting and crochet patterns and is completing a fourth booklet with publisher La Mode Illustree. Additionally, she is also
working on a book detailing the contributions of Delaware women to the war effort. Ms. Steenhagen also does living history with AGSAS and the Tarheel
Civilians.
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 Metropolitan and other universities in the United States. She is the author of Busy Hands: Images of the
Family in the Northern Civil War Effort from Fordham University Press.
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, 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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