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Thavolia Glymph

Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
224 Classroom Building, Box 90719, 1356 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Tuesday, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment  

Selected Publications


“I’m a Radical Black Girl”: Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History

Chapter · January 1, 2023 The history of southern women in the Civil War remains white-centered, mirroring wartime and postwar accounts that placed white women at the forefront of the battle for the home front. The politics of the “radical” women of Gonzalez, Texas, like the politi ... Full text Cite

She Wears the Flag of Our Country” Women, Nation, and War

Journal Article Journal of the Civil War Era · September 1, 2022 Full text Cite

"There is No Silence in the Archive, There are Silencers" Thavolia Glymph in Conversation about Gerda Lerner with Levke Harders

Journal Article Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

The Women s Fight : A Coda

Journal Article Labor: Studies in Working-Class History · May 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Crying for Home

Journal Article Labor: Studies in Working-Class History · September 1, 2020 Full text Cite

I Could Not Come in unless over their Dead Bodies: Dignitary Offenses

Journal Article Law and History Review · August 1, 2020 Full text Cite

The Women's Fight The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Book · November 27, 2019 —DaviD W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom “In the burgeoning literature on women and the Civil War, The Women's Fight is unique both because of the scope of its argument and the depth ... ... Cite

“Invisible disabilities”: Black women in war and in freedom

Journal Article Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society · September 1, 2016 Cite

Mary Elizabeth Massey: Standing with the master class

Journal Article Civil War History · December 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Telling slavery: Archives of life and death, surveillance and control

Journal Article William and Mary Quarterly · October 1, 2015 Full text Cite

A new world of women and a new language

Journal Article Frontiers · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

ERIC FONER'S “RECONSTRUCTION” AT TWENTY-FIVE

Journal Article The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era · January 2015 What follows is a written reproduction of a forum held at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Full text Cite

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Journal Article Journal of American History · March 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South

Journal Article Slavery & Abolition · January 2, 2014 Full text Cite

Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War

Journal Article Journal of the Civil War Era · December 2013 Featured Publication Cite

“I’m a Radical Black Girl”: Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History

Chapter · January 1, 2023 The history of southern women in the Civil War remains white-centered, mirroring wartime and postwar accounts that placed white women at the forefront of the battle for the home front. The politics of the “radical” women of Gonzalez, Texas, like the politi ... Full text Cite

She Wears the Flag of Our Country” Women, Nation, and War

Journal Article Journal of the Civil War Era · September 1, 2022 Full text Cite

"There is No Silence in the Archive, There are Silencers" Thavolia Glymph in Conversation about Gerda Lerner with Levke Harders

Journal Article Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

The Women s Fight : A Coda

Journal Article Labor: Studies in Working-Class History · May 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Crying for Home

Journal Article Labor: Studies in Working-Class History · September 1, 2020 Full text Cite

I Could Not Come in unless over their Dead Bodies: Dignitary Offenses

Journal Article Law and History Review · August 1, 2020 Full text Cite

The Women's Fight The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Book · November 27, 2019 —DaviD W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom “In the burgeoning literature on women and the Civil War, The Women's Fight is unique both because of the scope of its argument and the depth ... ... Cite

“Invisible disabilities”: Black women in war and in freedom

Journal Article Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society · September 1, 2016 Cite

Mary Elizabeth Massey: Standing with the master class

Journal Article Civil War History · December 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Telling slavery: Archives of life and death, surveillance and control

Journal Article William and Mary Quarterly · October 1, 2015 Full text Cite

A new world of women and a new language

Journal Article Frontiers · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

ERIC FONER'S “RECONSTRUCTION” AT TWENTY-FIVE

Journal Article The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era · January 2015 What follows is a written reproduction of a forum held at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Full text Cite

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Journal Article Journal of American History · March 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South

Journal Article Slavery & Abolition · January 2, 2014 Full text Cite

Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War

Journal Article Journal of the Civil War Era · December 2013 Featured Publication Cite

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson

Journal Article Journal of American History · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction: Past and Present

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · 2013 Cite

Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War

Journal Article OAH Magazine of History · April 2012 Cite

Women Amidst War

Chapter · 2011 Cite

I’se Mrs. Tatum Now: Black and White Women and the Meaning of Freedom

Journal Article Phillis: The Journal for Research on African American Women · 2010 Cite

Out of the house of bondage: The transformation of the plantation household

Book · January 1, 2003 Featured Publication This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless v ... Full text Cite

Women in the Civil War

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Southern Louisiana

Chapter · 2001 Cite

Writing Freedom’s History: The Destruction of Slavery

Journal Article Prologue: Journal of the National Archives · 1985 Cite