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OF FREEDOM AND FEMINISM IN CIVIL WAR WASHINGTON - Jessica Ziparo. This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 352 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3597-2.

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Jessica Ziparo. This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 352 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3597-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

Eric S. Yellin
Eric S. Yellin*
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University of Richmond
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 144 - 145
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2019 

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1 Aron, Cindy S., Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)Google Scholar.

2 See, for example, Cahill, Cathleen, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)Google Scholar; Gooding, Frederick Jr., American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941–1981 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)Google Scholar; McCartin, Joseph, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rung, Margaret C., Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933–1953 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002)Google Scholar; Yellin, Eric S., Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013)Google Scholar.