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History Bookshelf: Carol Berkin

Wedding Photograph of Jefferson Davis & Varina Howell (1845)

Wedding Photograph of Jefferson Davis & Varina Howell (1845)

Fairfax, Virginia
Saturday, November 3, 2012

Carol Berkin discusses her book, "Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, & Julia Dent Grant."  The three women were the wives of Abolitionist Leader Theodore Weld, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant.

Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 10:21am (ET)

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Book TV (late 2012)