Ranger Chat on Reconstruction: Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins

Description

Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins, Dr. a history professor at the University at Buffalo, and the Associate Director at the university's Center for Disability Studies. Her recent book, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North," examines the difficulties faced by disabled Union veterans struggling to navigate through the Reconstruction era federal bureaucracy to secure pensions and other support.

Duration

15 minutes, 20 seconds

Credit

NPS

Date Created

04/20/2020

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