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Kristen Brill's Outputs (9)

The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65) (2022)
Journal Article
Brill. (2022). The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65). Women's Writing, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2022.2089962

Recent historiography has shown how slaveholding white women in the antebellum South United States often played active and eager roles in the administration of slavery and used violence against enslaved persons. Building on this recent historiography... Read More about The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65).

Home Nursing, Gender and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War, 1861-65 (2021)
Journal Article
Brill, K. (2021). Home Nursing, Gender and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War, 1861-65. Nursing History Review, 30(1), 95-118. https://doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.30.95

This article provides the first extended analysis of Confederate home nursing in the American Civil War (1861-65). Home nursing was an integral component of Confederate health care outside of the regulation of the Confederate Medical Department and r... Read More about Home Nursing, Gender and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War, 1861-65.

Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities (2021)
Journal Article
Brill. (2021). Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/9zh0-x347

This article will evaluate the inclusivity of design and assessment methods of AMS 30043: Violence and Power in Antebellum America. This module explores issues of power and belonging from the end of the American Revolution to the American Civil War.... Read More about Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities.

Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65) (2019)
Book Chapter
Brill. (2019). Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65). In The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059605-3

Charles Francis Adams, the US Ambassador to Great Britain in the Civil War, was born into one of the most prestigious and powerful political families in the nation. He was the son of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, and grandson of the second... Read More about Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65).