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Elizabeth R. Varon)
Elizabeth Varon | |
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| Born | Elizabeth R. Varon December 16, 1963 |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | University of Virginia |
| Spouse | William I. Hitchcock |
| Children | 2 |
Elizabeth R. Varon (born December 16, 1963) is an American historian, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia.
Life
Varon graduated from Swarthmore College ( B.A.,1985), and from Yale University, ( Ph.D., 1993). She was professor of history at Wellesley College, and Temple University. [1] She is an Organization of American Historians lecturer. [2] She was co-director of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. [3]
Varon served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2023-24 academic year. [4]
She and her husband, William I. Hitchcock, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have two children.
Works
- We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Univ of North Carolina Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-6608-5.
- Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Oxford University Press, USA, 2003, ISBN 9780195142280
- Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Univ of North Carolina Press. 1 November 2008. ISBN 978-0-8078-8718-9. [5]
- Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, USA. 6 September 2013. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-19-934792-6. [6]
- Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-086060-8.
- Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 978-19-8214827-0.
References
- ^ "Project Co-Director: Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ^ "Elizabeth R. Varon". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ^ "Project Co-Director: Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ^ "The RAI welcomes 2023-24 Visiting Professors". Rothermere American Institute. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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^ Adam Smith (August 2009).
"Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859". H-CivWar.
The debate on Civil War causation will continue, but this is a thoughtful effort to circumvent the revisionist/fundamentalist dichotomy, and as good an account of the worldview of antebellum Americans as one can read.
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"Appomattox". Kirkus. August 12, 2013.
A careful, scholarly consideration of how the ambiguities surrounding the defeat of the South resolved into the bitter eras of Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
External links
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Fugitive Slave Laws, C-SPAN, October 4, 2010 | |
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Confederate View of 1864 Election, C-SPAN, November 8, 2014 | |
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Legacies of Appomattox, C-SPAN, March 14, 2015 |
- Elizabeth R. Varon (February 1, 2011). "Women at War". The New York Times.
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Categories:
- 21st-century American historians
- University of Virginia faculty
- Swarthmore College alumni
- Wellesley College faculty
- Temple University faculty
- Yale University alumni
- Living people
- American women historians
- 1963 births
- 21st-century American women writers
- Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History