In 1984, Catherine Clinton's The Other Civil War was a pioneering survey of accomplishments and experience of a century of women. The 1999 revisions update the story with recent research, enriching but not fundamentally changing the nature or organization. It's still one of the best thorough reviews of what happened during a century of incredible change for women. Clinton's preface to the 1999 edition reveals that in 1978, at Princeton University, she was asked to cover the subject of American women in the nineteenth century -- in one lecture. As she says, today "this recollection seems incomprehensible." Read more about this classic in women's history: The Other Civil War by Catherine Clinton