Elizabeth D. Leonard

Elizabeth D. Leonard is John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History and director of the women's, gender, and sexuality studies program at Colby College. She is author of Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994); All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999); and Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (2004). She is currently working on two book projects: a biography of the Civil War-era judge advocate general, Joseph Holt, and a study of black soldiers in the U.S. Army between the end of the Civil War and 1895.

Lecture topics:

• Women in the Civil War
• The Lincoln Assassination
• Civil War-era Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
• Black Soldiers in the U.S. Army, 1865-1895

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