Judith Giesberg is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive, and the author of several books on Civil War history, including Army at Home, Emilie Davis’s Civil War, and Last Seen.
Books in order of publication:
Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition – 2000
Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front – 2009
Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865 – 2014
Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality – 2017
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families – 2025
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