| FA-35354-99 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Leslie A. Schwalm | Redefining the Battlefield: Slavery and Freedom on a Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War | 8/1/1999 - 7/31/2000 | $30,000.00 | Leslie | A. | Schwalm | | | | University of Iowa | Iowa City | IA | 52242-1320 | USA | 1999 | U.S. History | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | No project description available |
| FT-39665-94 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Leslie A. Schwalm | African-American Women and the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Lowcountry South Carolina | 5/1/1994 - 9/30/1994 | $4,750.00 | Leslie | A. | Schwalm | | | | University of Iowa | Iowa City | IA | 52242-1320 | USA | 1994 | U.S. History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 4750 | 0 | 4750 | 0 | No project description available |
| FT-60490-13 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Leslie A. Schwalm | Racial Knowledge, Medical Science, and the American Civil War | 6/1/2013 - 7/31/2013 | $6,000.00 | Leslie | A. | Schwalm | | | | University of Iowa | Iowa City | IA | 52242-1320 | USA | 2013 | American Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
This project studies emancipation as a critical moment in the history of ideas about race as they became an increasingly important aspect of American medical science and public health policy during and after the Civil War. Two converging and mutually constitutive developments serve as the project's focus: the modernization of American military and civilian medicine, and a new elaboration of evolving medical and scientific beliefs in racial categories of difference. Tracing the collection and analysis of medical and anthropometric data about African Americans conducted by various medical and military officials (including civilian health care workers as well as the U.S. Army and the United States Sanitary Commission) during the Civil War, this project demonstrates how medical science was recruited in the service of firmer, more irrefutable racial ideologies after the war. |