Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Box 90717
Office Phone:	(919) 668-1625, (919) 684-2830
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/thavolia

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Military History
Labor and Working Class History
Gender
United States and Canada

Research Interests: U.S. History, Slavery, Emancipation and Civil War, Southern Women

Having completed Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge, 2008), I turned my attention back to a project begun years before on the experience of enslaved and freed women on the battlefields of the Civil War. This study focuses on the lives of black women and children in Civil War refugee, and labor camps. I am also completing Women at War (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press)and a study of Civil War veterans who served in the Egyptian Army in the 1870s entitled Playing “Dixie” in Egypt: Civil War Veterans in the Egyptian Army and Transnational Transcripts of Race, Nation, Empire and Citizenship, 1869-1878.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. T. Glymph, “Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War”, The Civil War at 150: Mobilizing for War Special Issue, Magazine of History, vol. 16 no. 2 (April, 2012), pp. 25-29, Organization of American Historians
2. T. Glymph, “Introduction,” Civil War at 150: From Slavery to Freedom Reader (2012) (Traveling Exhibition, Library of America in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Project.)
3. with Nina Silber, "Women Amidst War", in The Civil War Remembered (2011), Walsworth Pub.
4. "Fighting Slavery on Slaveholders' Terrain", OAH Magazine of History, vol. 23 no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 37-41  [abs]
5. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008), Cambridge University Press (2009 Co-Winner, Philip Taft Labor History Award 2009 Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize 2009 Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award.)  [abs]

Conferences Organized

• Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: 75th Anniversary Symposium, Organizer, November 10-12, 2010