Additional Links & Bibliography:

The following resources provide contextual and/or supplemental information that may be helpful while researching in the Sherman Thackara Collection.

Additional Links:

 

Notre Dame Archives- Thomas Ewing Family Papers

 

Notre Dame Archives- William T. Sherman Family Papers

 

Ohio Historical Society

 

OhioPix:  Picturing Ohio's History- Selections from the Ohio Historical Society Collection

 

United States Naval Academy's Nimitz Library- Special Collections & Archives

 

Wikipedia Article:  Alexander Montgomery Thackara

Wikipedia Article:  Eleanor Sherman Thackara

Wikipedia Article:  Thomas Ewing Sherman

 

Wikipedia Article:  William T. Sherman

 

Selected Bibliography:

(Search VUCat for titles)

 

Burton, Katherine.  Three Generations.  New York:  Longmans, Green and Co.,  1947.

 

Cinderella and the Glass Slipper.  New York:  White and Allen,  1889.
        http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Sherman%20Thackara%20Collection/ShermanThackaraCollection-00105.xml

 

Cotts,  Nancy F.  Public Vows:  A History of Marriage and the Nation.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press,  2000.

 

Degler,  Carl N.  At Odds:  Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present.  New York:  Oxford University
        Press,  1980.

Duurkin,  Joseph T.  General Sherman's Son.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,  1959.

Kenneally,  James K.  The History of American Catholic Women.  New York:  Crossroad Publishing Company,  1990.

 

Kennett,  Lee.  Sherman:  A Soldier's Life.  New York:  HarperCollins,  2001.

 

Lystra,  Karen.  Searching the Heart:  Women, Men and Romantic Love in the Nineteenth-Century America.  New York:  Oxford
        University Press, 1989.

 

McAllister,  Anna.  Ellen Ewing :  Wife of General Sherman.  New York:  Benziger Brother,  1936.

 

Memorial of Thomas Ewing of Ohio.  New York:  Catholic Publication Society,  1873.

        http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Sherman Thackara Collection/ShermanThackaraCollection-00085.xml.

 

Mintz,  Steven, and Susan Kellogg.  Domestic Revolutions:  A Social History of American Family Life.  New York:  The Free
        Press,  1988.

 

Sherman,  William T.  Sherman's Civil War:  Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865.  Edited by Brooks D.
        Simpson and Jean V. Berlin. North Carolina:  University of North Carolina Press,  1999.

Graduate Papers:

Benton,  George J.  “The Sherman-Thackara Family Papers & Epistolary Art of Ellie Sherman: Gender Distinctions in Addressing her Parents.”  Graduate
        paper,  Villanova University,  2004.

Markellos,  Nicholas.  “The Sherman Letters: A Window into a Father and Daughter Relationship in Nineteenth-Century America.”  Graduate paper,
       Villanova University,  2004.

Schenkelberg,  Meagan.  “Hidden Passions: An Example of Victorian Courtship through the Love Letters of Eleanor Sherman and Alexander Thackara.”
        Graduate paper,  Villanova University,  2004.