The book is based on her revised dissertation, which won the Organization of American Historians’ 2013 Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. Her first book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slaveowners in the American South is a regional study that draws upon formerly enslaved people’s testimony to dramatically reshape current understandings of white women’s economic relationships to slavery. Stephanie Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of history at the University of California Berkeley.
Judy directs a digital project, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, that is collecting, digitizing, and transcribing information wanted ads taken out by former slaves looking for family members lost to the domestic slave trade.
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Giesberg is the author of five books, Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2000), “Army at Home:” Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War (Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2013), and Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 (State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.) Judy’s latest book, Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of Modern Morality, (University of North Carolina Press) was published in 2017. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Villanova University. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 2019, Trethewey was awarded the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in Poetry for Lifetime Achievement from the Library of Congress.ĭavid Blight is Sterling Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University, where he is also Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) as well as American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, published August 2011), A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize. Blight is also a frequent book reviewer for the New York Times, Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, and other newspapers, and has written many articles and op-eds on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history In 2017 she received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She served two terms as the 19 th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014) and is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard (2006)-for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018) a book of non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010) and a memoir, Memorial Drive (2020) an instant New York Times Bestseller. Natasha Trethewey is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.
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