Laura F. Edwards
Peabody Family Professor of History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
My research focuses on women, gender, and the law in the nineteenth-century, particularly the U.S. South. In addition to articles on these topics, I have published four books: A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights
(2015); The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009);
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era
(2000); and Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
(1997). The People and Their Peace
was awarded the Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in southern history by the Southern Historical Association and the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American Law and Society by the American Historical Association. I have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Newberry Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. I am now working on a new book project, Only the Clothes on Her Back: Women, Textiles, and State Formation in the Nineteenth Century United States.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Peabody Family Professor of History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
- Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Contact Information
- 333 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
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ledwards@duke.edu
(919) 668-1435
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