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Elizabeth R. Varon

Born

January 01, 1963

Website

http://www.temple.edu/history/UZ/varon/index.html

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Elizabeth Varon (PhD, Yale University) is a professor of history at Temple University. Her research and teaching interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, History of Women and Gender, Southern History.

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"Personal Statement I have sought in my work to integrate social history and women’s history with political and military history. My first book was on white women’s participation and complicity in Southern politics during the antebellum era. My recent book is a bio of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Civil War spy for the Union and pioneering advocate of women’s rights and of civil rights for African Americans. My current project is a study of the origins of the Civil War (part of a multi-author thirteen part series on the war), an ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 968 ratings · 145 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy 3.97 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 4.09 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War 4.05 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (Editor), James Robertson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Thavolia Glymph (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia by Caroline E. Janney (Editor), Peter S. Carmichael (Contributor), William W. Bergen (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart. by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 by Cynthia A. Kierner (Contributor), Catherine Allgor (Contributor), E. Susan Barber (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works by Gary W. Gallagher (editor), Stephen Cushman (Editor), William A. Blair (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“These men, knowing full well that they were eyewitnesses to monumental events, read meaning and purpose into every detail of the surrender conference, and their accounts reveal that the seeds of continuing strife were sown at the very moment of Union victory and Confederate defeat.”
― Elizabeth R. Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

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“Did Appomattox signify the triumph of right over wrong or of might over right?”
― Elizabeth R. Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

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“According to Andrew Jackson Rogers, a New Jersey Democrat, “If you pass this bill you will allow the negroes of this country to compete for the high office of President of the United States”—no “civilized” country on earth gave rights to such “barbarians.”
― Elizabeth R. Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

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