Thavolia Glymph | Scholars@Duke

Thavolia Glymph
Professor of History

Thavolia Glymph, professor of history and law, studies the U.S. South with a focus on nineteenth century social history. Glymph is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), numerous articles and essays, and co-editor of two volumes the award-winning documentary series, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Series 1, Volume 1 and Series 1, Volume 3). She is currently completing a book manuscript titled African American Womenand Children Refugees in the Civil War: A History the Making of Freedom supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Her next project, "Playing 'Dixie' in Egypt: Civil War Veterans in the Egyptian Army and Transnational Transcripts of Race, Nation, Empire and Citizenship, 1869-1878," is a study of former Civil War officers who served in the Egyptian army during the Reconstruction era. In 2015 and 2018, Glymph was the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society and 2017-18 Thomas Langford Lecturer at Duke University. She surrently serves as the 86th president of the Southern Historical Association.

Office Hours

Tuesdays, 12:00-2:00 and by appointment

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2013

Contact Information

Box 90719, 226 Carr Building (East Campus), 114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90719, 226 Carr Building (East Campus), 114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
thavolia@duke.edu (919) 668-1625

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- B.A., Hampton University
- M.A., Purdue University
- Ph.D., Purdue University 1994
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
- Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2017
- Associate Professor in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2017
- Associate Chair in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
- Interim Chairman, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2008 - 2009
- Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2009
- Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2000 - 2008
- Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2003
Recognition
In the News
- APR 2, 2018
  
  Examining Slaverys Legacy in Politics, Economics and in Stone
- DEC 12, 2017
  
  At the National Constitution Center, Thavolia Glymph Celebrates the Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
- MAR 22, 2017
  
  At DC Landmark Museums, Cook Center Holds Conference on the Legacy of the Reconstruction Amendments
- MAY 26, 2015 the New York Times
  
  Remember Reconstruction by Preserving Mitchelville
- MAY 26, 2015 The New York Times
  
  Thavolia Glymph: Remember Reconstruction by preserving Mitchelville
- APR 22, 2014
  
  Glymph Wins 2013 Prize for Best Article in Journal
- MAR 26, 2014 The Root
  
  Meet the keepers of black women’s history: Thavolia Glymph
- DEC 2, 2013 C-SPAN
  
  Thavolia Glymph: The Civil War’s African-American women refugees
- NOV 19, 2013 The News & Observer
  
  Thavolia Glymph comments: The eloquent Gettysburg Address stands test of time
- NOV 15, 2013
  
  'Twelve Years' Forum: 'Show Up for the Horror, Stay for the Politics'
- NOV 7, 2013 PBS The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
  
  Thavolia Glymph contributes to Into the Fire
- OCT 9, 2013 Duke Magazine
  
  The Enduring Impact of the Gettysburg Address
Awards & Honors
- George and Ann Richards Prize . Journal of the Civil War Era . 2014
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - United States of America (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- African American Literature and Social History awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 - 2013
External Relationships
- Book royalties
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Glymph, T. Out of the house of bondage: The transformation of the plantation household, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511812491.
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  - Glymph, T., Ira Berlin, Steven Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Julie Saville, and Leslie Rowland. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  - Glymph, T., Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 1, The Destruction of Slavery. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  - Glymph, Thavolia, John James Kushma, and University of Texas at Arlington. Essays on the postbellum southern economy. TAMU Press, 1985.
- Academic Articles
  - Glymph, Thavolia. “"I'm a Radical Girl:" Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History,” Journal of the Civil War Era 8.3 (September 2018): 359-87.” Journal of the Civil War Era 8.3 (September 2018): 359 87. 8, no. 3 (September 2018): 359–87.
  - Glymph, T. ““Invisible disabilities”: Black women in war and in freedom.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 160, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 237–46.
  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““‘Invisible Disabilities’": Black Women in War and in Freedom,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 160 (September 2016): 237-53.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 160 (September 2016): 237–53.
  - Glymph, T. “Mary Elizabeth Massey: Standing with the master class.” Civil War History 61, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 412–15. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2015.0094.
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  - Foner, Eric. “ERIC FONER'S “RECONSTRUCTION” AT TWENTY-FIVE.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14, no. 1 (January 2015): 13–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537781414000516.
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  - Glymph, T. “A new world of women and a new language.” Frontiers 36, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 21–26.
  - Glymph, T. “Telling slavery: Archives of life and death, surveillance and control.” William and Mary Quarterly 72, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 680–85. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.72.4.0680.
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  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““Freedom in the American Republic,” Eric Foner’s Reconstruction at Twenty-Five Forum, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14, No. 1 (January 2015): 19-22.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14, No. 1 (January 2015): 19 22. 14, no. 1 (January 2015): 19–22.
  - Glymph, T. “River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom.” Journal of American History 100, no. 4 (March 1, 2014): 1170–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau009.
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  - Glymph, Thavolia. “Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South.” Slavery & Abolition 35, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 190–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039x.2013.878621.
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  - Glymph, T. “Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War.” Journal of the Civil War Era 3 (December 2013): 501–32.
  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““Rose’s War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War,” Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 3, No. 4 (December 2013): 501-32.” Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 3, No. 4 (December 2013): 501 32. 3, no. 4 (December 2013): 501–32.
  - Glymph, T. “River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson.” Journal of American History, 2013.
  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and Slave Women’s War for Freedom,” South Atlantic Quarterly 112:3 (Summer 2013): 489-505.” South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 3 (2013): 489–505.
  - Various, S. “W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction: Past and Present.” Edited by T. Glymph. South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 3 (Summer) (2013).
  - Glymph, T. “Noncombatant military laborers in the Civil War.” Oah Magazine of History 26, no. 2 (April 5, 2012): 25–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/oahmag/oas007.
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  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War,” OAH Magazine of History, Volume 26, No 2 (April 2012), 25-29.” Oah Magazine of History 26, no. 2 (April 2012): 25–29.
  - Glymph, T. “I’se Mrs. Tatum Now: Black and White Women and the Meaning of Freedom.” Phillis: The Journal for Research on African American Women 1, no. 1 (Inaugural Issue) (2010): 24–32.
  - Glymph, Thavolia, and Leslie A. Schwalm. “A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina.” The Journal of American History 85, no. 3 (December 1998): 1082–1082. https://doi.org/10.2307/2567271.
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  - Glymph, T., Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. MIller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie Rowland, and Julie Saville. “Writing Freedom’s History: The Destruction of Slavery.” Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 17 (1985): 211–27.
- Book Sections
  - Glymph, Thavolia. ““Refugee Camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863,” in The Lens of War: Historians Reflect on their Favorite Civil War Photographs, ed. Gary Gallagher and Mathew Gallman (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), 133-40.” In The Lens of War: Historians Reflect on Their Favorite Civil War Photographs, edited by Gary Gallagher and Matthew Gallman, 133–40. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
  - Glymph, T. “Enslaved Women and the Battle for Freedom and Democracy on the Civil War’s Home Front.” In The American Civil War at Home, edited by C. Sheriff and S. Reynolds. Richmond, VA: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, 2014.
  - Glymph, T., and N. Silber. “Women Amidst War.” In The Civil War Remembered. Walsworth Pub Co, 2011.
  - Glymph, T. “’This Species of Property’: Female Slave Contrabands in the Civil War (Reprint).” In The Confederate Experience Reader: Selected Socuments and Essays. Routledge, 2008.
  - Glymph, T., Drew Gilpin Faust, and George Rable. “A Woman’s War: Southern Women in the Civil War (Reprint).” In The Confederate Reader: Selected Documents and Essays. Routledge, 2008.
  - “The Union Preserved/Toward Reconstruction.” In Abraham Lincoln: People, Places, Politics. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2006.
  - Glymph, T. “’Liberty Dearly Bought’: The Making of Civil War Memory in African American Communities in the South.” In Time Longer than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, edited by Charles M. Payne and Adam Green. New York University Press, 2003.
  - Glymph, T. “Women in the Civil War.” In Blackwell Companion to American Women’s History, edited by Nancy Hewitt. Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
  - Glymph, T., Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Jospeh P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland. “Southern Louisiana.” In Reconstructing Louisiana, edited by Lawrence N. Powell. Center for Louisiana Studies, 2001.
  - Glymph, T. “African American Women in the Literary Imagination of Mary Boykin Chesnut.” In Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, edited by Louis Ferleger and Robert Paquette. University Press of Virginia, 2000.
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In the News

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

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External Relationships

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession