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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

Awards & Honors


American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member/Fellow

National American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2024 More about this award

Tom Watson Brown Book Award

National The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation · May 12, 2021 More about this award

John Nau Prize for best book in the American Civil War Era

National John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia · May 10, 2021 More about this award

The Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award

National Organization of American Historians · April 20, 2021 Given annually by the OAH to the author of the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.

The Darlene Clark Hine Award

National Organization of American Historians · April 16, 2021 Given annually by the OAH to the author of the best book in African American women’s and gender history

The Mary Nickliss Prize

National Organization of American Historians · April 16, 2021 Given annually for “the most original” book in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History (including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776)

Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

National Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · January 2021 Awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era.

George and Ann Richards Prize

Other Journal of the Civil War Era · 2014

Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Out of the House of Bondage

National The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · 2009

Philip Taft Labor History Award for the outstanding book on American labor history

Scholarly Society School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School) at Cornell University in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) · 2009

In the News


Published February 14, 2025
Cook Society Awards: Five Campus & Community Leaders Who Built a ‘Beloved Community’
Published November 18, 2024
A How-To on Navigating the Tenure Process
Published April 24, 2024
Two Faculty, Three Trustees Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Published January 19, 2024
Duke Historian Thavolia Glymph Becomes 140th President of American Historical Association
Published June 28, 2021
Duke Awards 22 Distinguished Professorships
Published June 3, 2021
Six Awards Confirm the Impact of Thavolia Glymph’s Research
Published March 2, 2021
12 Duke-Authored Books on Women's History
Published February 12, 2021
History Professors Discuss the Evolution of Racism in America & How It Shaped Duke Experiences
Published April 2, 2018
Examining Slaverys Legacy in Politics, Economics and in Stone
Published December 12, 2017
At the National Constitution Center, Thavolia Glymph Celebrates the Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
Published March 22, 2017
At DC Landmark Museums, Cook Center Holds Conference on the Legacy of the Reconstruction Amendments
Published May 26, 2015
Thavolia Glymph: Remember Reconstruction by preserving Mitchelville
Published May 26, 2015
Remember Reconstruction by Preserving Mitchelville
Published April 22, 2014
Glymph Wins 2013 Prize for Best Article in Journal
Published November 19, 2013
Thavolia Glymph comments: The eloquent Gettysburg Address stands test of time
Published November 15, 2013
'Twelve Years' Forum: 'Show Up for the Horror, Stay for the Politics'
Published November 7, 2013
Thavolia Glymph contributes to Into the Fire
Published October 9, 2013
The Enduring Impact of the Gettysburg Address