Civil War Sesquicentennial

"Waiting to Secede: Kentucky's Civil War in History and Memory" will be the topic of the final program in Eastern Kentucky University’s year-long lecture series commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.

The role of women in the American Civil War, says historian and author Catherine Clinton, “was often a topic for folklore and romance, and often restricted to the image of women waiting on the home front for their men to come home.”