SSHJ Volume 1, Number 2, April 2015
Saber and Scroll Historical Journal, Volume 1, Number 2, April 2015
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editor
Anne Midgley
Social and Political Roles of Women in Athens and Sparta
Kay O’Pry
Finding Truth in the Myth of Lady Godiva: Femininity, Sex, and Power in Twelfth Century England
Allison Archer
Enlightened Women: A Discussion on Education, Marriage, and the Domestic Sphere in Eighteenth Century Society
Emily Herff
Call to Arms: Military Musicians in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Anne Midgley
Belle Boyd: Confederate Patriot or Pseudo-Celebrity
Christopher Cox
“Let Us Never Stop Trying to Learn:” Gender Roles of Antebellum Slave Education
Allyson Perry
A Nazi Childhood: Hitler’s Germany, 1939-1945
Linda Shay
Left Out: Women’s Role in Historiography and the Contribution of Mary Ritter Beard
Alice Alvarado
Book Reviews
Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Book Review by Ben Sorenson
Charles B. Dew. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001. Book Review by Jim Dick
Desjardin, Thomas A. Through A Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Book Review by Lew Taylor
Linklater, Andro. An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Life of General James Wilkinson. New York: Walker & Company, 2009. Book Review by Mike Gottert
Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. Cambridge: DaCapo Press, 1995. Book Review by DeAnna Stevens