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243 Ernestine Friedl Bldg.            1316 Campus Dr.
Box 90252
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

telephone: 919.684.2830
facsimile: 919.684.2832   

 

 

    Thavolia Glymph

  • Thavolia Glymph

  • Associate Professor
  • African & African American Studies
  • 243 Ernestine Friedl Bldg., Rm. 236
  • Campus Box 90252
  • Phone: +1 919 668 1625
  • Fax: (919) 684-2832

  • Specialties

    • 19th Century US
    • Diaspora Studies

  • Research Summary

    Southern US, Slavery and Emancipation, Comparative Emancipation, Civil War, Southern Women

  • Research Description

    Having completed Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge, 2008), I turned my attention back to a project begun years before on the experience of enslaved and freed women on the battlefields of the Civil War. This study focuses on the lives of black women and children in Civil War refugee, and labor camps. I am also completing Women at War (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press)and a study of Civil War veterans who served in the Egyptian Army in the 1870s entitled Playing “Dixie” in Egypt: Civil War Veterans in the Egyptian Army and Transnational Transcripts of Race, Nation, Empire and Citizenship, 1869-1878.

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Havens Center Visiting Scholar, Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
      • October, 2012
      • Organization of American Historians Distingushed Lecturer,
      • 2011-
      • National Park Service Award,
      • April, 2011
      • Inaugural Senior Summer Research Fellow, Institute for African American Research, University of South Carolina,
      • 2011
      • Co-Winner, 2009 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award,
      • ILR School at Cornell University in Collaboration with Labor and Working Class History Association,
      • May, 2009
      • Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2009,
      • 0 2009

  • Recent Publications

      • T. Glymph.
      • (April, 2012).
      • “Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War”.
      • Magazine of History
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      • The Civil War at 150: Mobilizing for War Special Issue
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      • 16
      • (2)
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      • 25-29.
      • Organization of American Historians.
      • T. Glymph.
      • (2012).
      • “Introduction,” Civil War at 150: From Slavery to Freedom Reader.
      • .
      • (Traveling Exhibition, Library of America in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Project)
      • with
      • Nina Silber.
      • (2011).
      • "Women Amidst War".
      • The Civil War Remembered
      • Walsworth Pub..
      • (April, 2009).
      • "Fighting Slavery on Slaveholders' Terrain".
      • OAH Magazine of History
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      • 23
      • (2)
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      • 37-41.
      Publication Description

      The article presents an examination into the means by which African American slaves of the antebellum South resisted the ideology and logistics of their enslavement. Details are given noting that while the social structure of the South was based on slavery, the slaves also wielded certain levels of social power and could disrupt the established institution of slave owners through various means. Accounts are given of indirect means of resistance through labor negotiations and social pressures as well as direct confrontations through fugitive activities and rebellions.

      • (2008).
      • Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household.
      • Cambridge University Press.
      • (2009 Co-Winner, Philip Taft Labor History Award 2009 Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize 2009 Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award)
      Publication Description

      http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/taftaward/awardRecipients/ http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/fdbp-finalisits.htm http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=prg_books

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