AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR
150 YEARS LATER: Confederate Reckoning – Power and Politics in the Civil War: Stephanie McCurry
Sunday February 27, 2-3:30 pm
Brubeck Room in the Wilton Library
In this third lecture of the America’s Civil War series, Professor Stephanie McCurry from the University of Pennsylvania will speak about the subject of her latest book, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South - why southerners seceded from the Union, what kind of country they wanted to build, and about the political trial and failure of that experiment in proslavery nationalism.
Stephanie McCurry is a specialist in nineteenth-century American history, with a focus on the American South and the Civil War era, and the history of women and gender. She received her M.A. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. After nine years on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, she moved to Northwestern University. She joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania History Department in 2003. In 2006-2007, she was a visiting professor of history at Princeton University.
Professor McCurry has many titles to her credit, in addition to the subject of this talk, such as Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford University Press, 1995), which received numerous awards including the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association.
This lecture in the series in sponsored by Drs. Ron & Betsy Kahan.
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