| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812. By Dianne Graves. (Toronto: Robin Brass, 2007. xvi, 495 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-1-896941-52-3.)

In the Midst of Alarms, by the Canadian historian Dianne Graves, is an outstanding study that significantly advances our understanding of women's lives in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century North America. Graves, an independent scholar, novelist, biographer, and the wife of the military historian Donald E. Graves, claims that when she explored her husband's archives,

I realized that, although the diplomatic, political, military and naval aspects of [the War of 1812] had been extensively treated in print, there was relatively little about the life and times of the women who lived through it ... In the Midst of Alarms is an attempt—from an impartial standpoint in terms of nationality—to bring to life the experiences of a broad cross-section of women in North America during the time of the War of 1812. (p. xi)

In this, she has succeeded admirably.

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