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Emily Lapisardi has published scholarly articles as well as several books. She is the editor of Rose Greenhow's My Imprisonment: An Annotated Edition
which debuted as the #1 new release in U. S. Civil War women's history on Amazon.com in 2021. Her work has appeared in a range of journals including the Communal Societies Journal, At Home and in the Field, Homefront Herald, The American Communal Societies Quarterly, The Harmonist, and Resources for American Literary Study (forthcoming). She has published on a range of subjects including musicology, Civil War history, sericulture, historical fashion, and cinematic adaptation of literary works.
Learn more about Emily Lapisardi's books.
Abbott Kahler
New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Meticulously, and in fascinating detail, Emily Lapisardi has annotated the memoir of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. Rose Greenhow—Confederate spy, provocateur, consummate name-dropper and social climber—lived a brief but tumultuous life, and Lapisardi puts it into thorough and proper context.”
Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of History, UNC Wilmington, and author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope
“One of the most daring, alluring, and controversial [spies] was Rose O’Neal Greenhow, a noted Washington socialite and staunch Confederate sympathizer and diplomat. After decades of research and study, Emily Lapisardi has come to know Greenhow as well as any living historian, and has resurrected her intriguing story in this much-needed annotated edition of Greenhow’s rare 1863 memoir."
Janet Elizabeth Croon
editor of The War Outside My Window: the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
“This edition, edited by Emily Lapisardi, is a valuable resource and should be part of any serious library of the Civil War. Greenhow had a distinctly political mind during an era where women were not encouraged to engage in political issues, especially during times of war. Lapisardi provides the context that Greenhow assumed her contemporary reader understood: the identification of the ‘who, what, when, where’ of 19th century Washington is critical in understanding the significance of Rose Greenhow and her espionage activities historically.”