Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University. She specializes in nineteenth-century US history, African-American history and women’s history, authoring ''Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household'' (2008) and ''The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation'' (2020).

Education

Glymph earned her Ph.D. in economic history from

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

in 1994. As an undergrad at Hampton University and fluent French speaker, Glymph had originally intended to major in European history or French, but an article by Purdue historian Harold Woodman on the profitability of slavery sparked her interest and she went on to pursue graduate work with Woodman.

Career

Glymph's 2008 book, ''Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household'', won the

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association for books relating to labor history of the United States. L ...

and was finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award for outstanding narrative work on the period of the Confederacy and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Susan-Mary Grant recommended ''Out of the House of Bondage'' as the book in the field of nineteenth-century American history that everyone should read. In 2014, Glymph won the George and Ann Richards Prize for best article published in ''The Journal of the Civil War Era'' in 2013; her article, "Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of Slave Insurgency in the Civil War" described Rose's role as one of the leaders of a slave revolt. Her 2020 book ''The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation'' won the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians and the

Albert J. Beveridge Award The Albert J. Beveridge Award is awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for the best English-language book on American history (United States, Canada, or Latin America) from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis ...

from the

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Bibliography

* co-ed. ''Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 1, The Destruction of Slavery.'' (

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, 1985) * co-ed. ''Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy'' ( TAMU Press, 1985) * co-ed. ''Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. '' (Cambridge University Press, 1990) * ''Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household'' (

, 2008) * ''The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation'' (

University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. It was the first university press founded in the Southern United States. It is a member of the As ...

, 2020) * ''African American Women and Children Refugees: A History of War and the Making of Freedom'' (forthcoming)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glymph, Thavolia Living people Duke University faculty Historians of race relations Historians of the United States 21st-century American historians Hampton University alumni Purdue University alumni Gender studies academics Historians of slavery Historians of the Southern United States Year of birth missing (living people)