Elizabeth R Varon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth R Varon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth R |
| FAMILY NAME | Varon |
| SIGNATURE | VARON E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Le Judas Confedéré: James Longstreet’s surprising alliance with Black politicians in New Orleans
The "Bull-Dog" in Istanbul: James Longstreet's Revealing Tour as US Minister to Turkey, 1880–81
Modern historians have overlooked Confederate-turned-Republican James Longstreet's brief tour as US minister to Turkey. But this chapter of Longstreet's life warrants close consideration. Longstreet's sojourn took place at a fraught moment of transition in US–Ottoman relations, with regard to the treatment of missionaries, and provides a new perspective on that transition, and on the reactive, ad hoc nature of American diplomacy in this era. More…
The Civil War as a Humanitarian Crisis
Book Review| May 01 2021 The Civil War as a Humanitarian Crisis Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon ELIZABETH R. VARON is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her most recent book is Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (2): 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8849580 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitt…
Gender History and the Origins of the Civil War
Are they better men, wiser, purer, or greater? Have they accomplished more, fought more, or paid more proportionally for the Union than we of the South?” James Seddon of Virginia posed this question to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1847 as part of a diatribe against what he called the “arrogant assumption of superiority” by Northerners opposed to slavery extension—their “pharisaical pretension that they are not as other men.” Seddon was a …
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
Northern sympathizer in Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied conventions of nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of woman who led what one historian called the most productive espionage operation of Civil War. Under nose of Confederate governm…
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 253. Illustrations. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.)Susan Zaeske's long-overdue study of women's antislavery petitions to the United States Congress in the period between 1831 to 1865 makes two interlocking arguments. The first is that women's petitions constitute a signal contributi…
Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924
Melanie Gustafson successfully confronts the historical complexity of American women
These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia
Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives
Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800 offers readers a new approach to the social history of the American Revolution and a unique perspective on this period in southern women's history. Using ninety-eight petitions that women in North and South Carolina submitted to their state assemblies during or after the war, Cynthia A. Kierner examines southern women's wartime experiences and assesses their changing expectations for public and private life…
American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War
We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstra…
Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia
At the heart of Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861 were two ideological cornerstones, the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery, Anthony Gene Carey argues in this comprehensive, analytical narrative of the three decades leading up to the Civil War
We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Journal Article We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia. By Elizabeth R. Varon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2390-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4696-1.) Get access Jean Harvey Baker Jean Harvey Baker Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issu…
We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology
Journal Article Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology. By Jerome Mushkat and Joseph G. Rayback. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. and The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. By John F. Marszalek. New York: Free Press, 1997. viii, 296 pp. Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other w…
Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
Journal Article Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. By Laura F. Edwards. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii, 378 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02297-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06600-6.) Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4…
Domesticity All Dressed-Up: Gender in Antebellum Politics and Culture
FOR SOME TIME NOW, feminist scholars have redefined the boundaries of politics by theorizing carefully about gender ideologies and household structures, cultural politics and official politics of parties, ballot boxes and talkative cravated men in legislatures. Read together, these two new books evaluate a body of printed artifacts including novels, newspapers, and legislative petitions. In this discursive realm of publicity, public criticism^ an…
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Journal Article Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon assistant professor of United States history Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 494–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082184 Published: 01 September 1995
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 253. Illustrations. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.)Susan Zaeske's long-overdue study of women's antislavery petitions to the United States Congress in the period between 1831 to 1865 makes two interlocking arguments. The first is that women's petitions constitute a signal contributi…
We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Journal Article Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon assistant professor of United States history Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 494–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082184 Published: 01 September 1995
Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924
Melanie Gustafson successfully confronts the historical complexity of American women
Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Journal Article Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon assistant professor of United States history Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 494–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082184 Published: 01 September 1995
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology
Journal Article Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology. By Jerome Mushkat and Joseph G. Rayback. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. and The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. By John F. Marszalek. New York: Free Press, 1997. viii, 296 pp. Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other w…
Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
Journal Article Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. By Laura F. Edwards. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii, 378 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02297-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06600-6.) Get access Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4…
Domesticity All Dressed-Up: Gender in Antebellum Politics and Culture
FOR SOME TIME NOW, feminist scholars have redefined the boundaries of politics by theorizing carefully about gender ideologies and household structures, cultural politics and official politics of parties, ballot boxes and talkative cravated men in legislatures. Read together, these two new books evaluate a body of printed artifacts including novels, newspapers, and legislative petitions. In this discursive realm of publicity, public criticism^ an…
We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstra…
Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia
At the heart of Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861 were two ideological cornerstones, the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery, Anthony Gene Carey argues in this comprehensive, analytical narrative of the three decades leading up to the Civil War
We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Journal Article We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia. By Elizabeth R. Varon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2390-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4696-1.) Get access Jean Harvey Baker Jean Harvey Baker Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issu…
Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives
Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800 offers readers a new approach to the social history of the American Revolution and a unique perspective on this period in southern women's history. Using ninety-eight petitions that women in North and South Carolina submitted to their state assemblies during or after the war, Cynthia A. Kierner examines southern women's wartime experiences and assesses their changing expectations for public and private life…
American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War
These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia
Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924
Melanie Gustafson successfully confronts the historical complexity of American women
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 253. Illustrations. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.)Susan Zaeske's long-overdue study of women's antislavery petitions to the United States Congress in the period between 1831 to 1865 makes two interlocking arguments. The first is that women's petitions constitute a signal contributi…
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
Northern sympathizer in Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied conventions of nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of woman who led what one historian called the most productive espionage operation of Civil War. Under nose of Confederate governm…
Gender History and the Origins of the Civil War
Are they better men, wiser, purer, or greater? Have they accomplished more, fought more, or paid more proportionally for the Union than we of the South?” James Seddon of Virginia posed this question to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1847 as part of a diatribe against what he called the “arrogant assumption of superiority” by Northerners opposed to slavery extension—their “pharisaical pretension that they are not as other men.” Seddon was a …
The Civil War as a Humanitarian Crisis
Book Review| May 01 2021 The Civil War as a Humanitarian Crisis Elizabeth R. Varon Elizabeth R. Varon ELIZABETH R. VARON is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her most recent book is Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (2): 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8849580 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitt…
The "Bull-Dog" in Istanbul: James Longstreet's Revealing Tour as US Minister to Turkey, 1880–81
Modern historians have overlooked Confederate-turned-Republican James Longstreet's brief tour as US minister to Turkey. But this chapter of Longstreet's life warrants close consideration. Longstreet's sojourn took place at a fraught moment of transition in US–Ottoman relations, with regard to the treatment of missionaries, and provides a new perspective on that transition, and on the reactive, ad hoc nature of American diplomacy in this era. More…
Le Judas Confedéré: James Longstreet’s surprising alliance with Black politicians in New Orleans
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