Stephanie McCurry explained

Stephanie McCurry is an American historian and a professor of history at Columbia University. Her book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2011.^[1]

Life

She was born in Belfast. She graduated from University of Western Ontario, received her MA from the University of Rochester, and Ph.D. from the Binghamton University.^[2] She spent nine years on the faculty of the University of California in San Diego before moving to Northwestern University in 1998 and the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. In 2015, she moved again this time to replace Eric Foner on the faculty at Columbia University.

Works

• Book: Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. registration. 11 September 1997. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-511795-0.
• Book: Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. 7 May 2012. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-05665-7.
• Book: Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. 15 April 2019. Harvard University Press. 978-0-67-498797-5.

External links

• News: The U.S. Won the Civil War. The New York Times. July 2, 2013.
• Web site: OAH lectures.
• Stephanie McCurry. (2019). “Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman’s Life Amidst the Ruins”. 22nd Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, Wilson Center, University of Georgia. Vimeo website

Notes and References

1. News: 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music. The New York Times. April 18, 2011. September 3, 2014.
2. Web site: Stephanie McCurry - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150704005803/http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/McCurry.html. 2015-07-04.