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

Office Location:  Box 90717
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Web Page:  http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/faculty.html#Thavolia

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Military History
Labor and Working Class History
Gender
Research Interests:

Dr. Glymph is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History. Professor Glymph is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women . She is co-editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1861, ser. 1, vol. 1; The Documentary of History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3; The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South and Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Her most recently published work is Out Of the House of Bondage: The transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her current writing and research focuses on women in the Civil War, the geography of the plantation household and Civil War veterans in Egypt.

Current Ph.D. Students  

Recent Publications

  1. "Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War," forthcoming, OAH Magazine of History (2012)
  2. with Nina Silber, "Women Amidst War", in The Civil War Remembered (2011), Walsworth Pub.
  3. "I'se Mrs. Tatum Now': Black and White Women and the Meaning of Freedom,", Phillis, vol. 1 no. 1 (2011), pp. 24-32
  4. Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), Labor: Studies in Working Class-History of the Americas (2010)
  5. Frances Smith Foster, ed., Love and Marriage in Early African America (2008), Journal of African American History, vol. 95 (2010), pp. 431-33
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