Stephanie Mccurry
Biographic Data
| ID | 383776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Mccurry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccurry |
| SIGNATURE | MCCURRY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ku Klux Klan Violence and the Problem of Evidence
This article offers a forensic analysis of one key archive of sexual violence: The official record of a congressional investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and federal trials of Klan members in the years immediately after the American Civil War. The 13 volumes constitute the single most important source of victim testimony on white supremacist violence and are used widely by historians. It also presents daunting problems of interpretation particularl…
Archives of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones
Our aim is to illuminate the persistent problem of evidence in cases of sexual violence in conflict zones by investigating the relationship between archival practices and processes of legal redress. This special issue consists of six essays, with contributors drawn from the disciplines of history and law. In temporal terms, the cases range from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century; spatially, they address conflicts in Africa, Asi…
Women’s War
Enemy Women and the Laws of War in the American Civil War
One of the most important legacies of the American Civil War, not just in the re-united States of America but also in the nineteenth and twentieth century world, were the new laws of war that the conflict introduced. “Lieber's Code,” named after the man who authored it for the Lincoln administration, was a set of instructions written and issued in April 1863 to govern the conduct of “the armies of the United States in the field.” It became a temp…
Women Numerous and Armed
Reckoning with the Confederacy
The article reprises the main arguments of McCurry's 2010 book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South: the nature of the Confederate project; the terrible reckoning-including with its own people-that came to the new nation with war; and the radically transformative consequences of white Southerners' risky gamble on proslavery nationalism. It also lays out the methodological contribution of the book as an attempt to write…
Women Numerous and Armed
This chapter examines the response of Confederate women, especially poor soldiers' wives, to the hardships brought on by a war that witnessed enormous expansion of the Confederate state. Focusing on a series of sometimes violent demonstrations triggered by shortages of food, it presents examples of interstate political communication and organization among non-elite white women that suggests a major shift in the relationship between citizens and t…
Masters of Small Worlds
Journal Article Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. By Stephanie McCurry. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx, 320 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-507236-7.) Get access Kenneth S. Greenberg Kenneth S. Greenberg Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Masters of Small Worlds
Masters of Small Worlds
Dedication
Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country
The political history of the lowcountry yeomanry poses more than the ordinary challenges of evidence and analysis. For the contradictions of American republicanism were played out larger than life in that corner of the United States, and they left an indelible mark on the historical record. In the Low Country, the historian is confronted at once with the most apparently “aristocratic” political culture in the nation in the arrogation of political…
Slavery, Gender, and the “Social Fabrick”
When yeoman farmers went to town on court day, to a July Fourth barbecue, or an annual militia review and heard prominent politicians such as Robert Barnwell Rhett or James Henry Hammond defend slavery against the calumnies of abolitionists, they probably cheered as vociferously as the planters with whom they rubbed shoulders. For judging by the remains in the written record, those politicians and political theorist invariably rang what were to y…
Appendix
Producing Independence
Historians never find it easy to cross the threshold of the household and look inside. For the most part, they have stayed outside, witnessing the struggle for independence by yeoman heads of household from the vantage point of the federal census taker or local merchant. Yet that independence, and its attendant public meanings, was produced, quite literally, out of the relations of power and dependency that prevailed within the household’s bounda…
“To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold”
On December 17, 1860, the South Carolina secession convention assembled in the state capitol’s First Baptist Church to write the Ordinance of Secession that rent the Union asunder. In sheltering under the eaves of evangelicalism, delegates sought divine sanction for the revolutionary act they were about to commit, and they sought no less to unite the people of the state for the struggle that lay ahead.
Unequal Masters
Domestic dependencies had public meanings in the South Carolina Low Country. In the complex world outside the fence where masters met on no man’s particular land, yeomen’s masterly identity engendered quite contradictory meanings, committing them to independence and the public assertion of their social and political rights even as it wedded them to the relations of power and domestic dependency that supported it.1 The defense of their own indepen…
Abbreviations
“Households of Faith”
When Daniel Baker held out to tortured sinners a vision of deliverance and sanctuary, he used an image of love and intimacy very close to home. “We are all,” he would say of those who had found Jesus, “members of the same household of faith.” The perfected image of the family of household relations consecrated by love, piety, and fellowship-was his model of Christian community. But when he referred to “God the Householder,” head of the heavenly h…
Boundaries of Power
Sometime in the fall of 1855 near Adams Run in Colleton District, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a yeoman neighbor named Price came to blows over Price’s relationship to the slaves on Elliott’s PonPon plantation. Convinced that the “vulgar” Price had been engaged in illegal trading with the PonPon slaves, Elliott had “knocked him down,” an insult Price had answered with two pistol shots in Elliott’s face that were “so close…
Tables
Subject American Women's History US Cultural History Early 19th Century US History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
“Like a Great Family”
One Saturday in January 1854, John Kelly stood up in Gum Branch Baptist Church in rural Darlington District and announced that “his wife Lenore Kelly had left his house.” As he stood there, supplicant, before his brethren, Kelly knew what he had begun, knew that he had just invited community intrusion into the most intimate aspect of his domestic affairs. In making the admission-in preempting accusation-he attempted, no doubt, to assert a measure…
Unheard Voices
Journal Article Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women. Ed. by Anne Firor Scott. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $29-95, ISBN 0-8139-1432-9. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8139-1433-7.) Get access Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry University of California, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4…
Masters Of Small Worlds
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region’s powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and ge…
The Politics of Yeoman Households in South Carolina
Sometime in the fall of 1855, on the coast of South Carolina, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a “vulgar” neighbor named Price came to blows over Price’s relationship to the slaves on Elliott’s “PonPon” plantation. Convinced that Price had been engaged in illegal trade with the PonPon slaves, Elliott had “knocked him down,” an insult Price had answered with two pistol shots in Elliott’s face, “so close as to burn him with the…
Masters Of Small Worlds
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region’s powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and ge…
Masters of Small Worlds
The Two Faces of Republicanism
Journal Article The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina Get access Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry assistant professor of history University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 4, March 1992, Pages 1245–1264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079342 Published: 01 March 1992
The Politics of Yeoman Households in South Carolina
Sometime in the fall of 1855, on the coast of South Carolina, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a “vulgar” neighbor named Price came to blows over Price’s relationship to the slaves on Elliott’s “PonPon” plantation. Convinced that Price had been engaged in illegal trade with the PonPon slaves, Elliott had “knocked him down,” an insult Price had answered with two pistol shots in Elliott’s face, “so close as to burn him with the…
The Two Faces of Republicanism
Journal Article The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina Get access Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry assistant professor of history University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 4, March 1992, Pages 1245–1264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079342 Published: 01 March 1992
A Family Venture
Journal Article A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier. By Joan E. Cashin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. x + 198 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-505344-3.) Get access Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry University of California San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1156–1157, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080845 Publis…
Piedmont Mill Workers and the Politics of History
RARELY IS A HISTORIAN presented with such an opportunity to reflect on the deepest matters of historical method and analysis. These two books have a remarkable amount in common — subject, sources, origin in a collaborative project, and even a leftist politics rooted in a shared generational experience — and yet they offer profoundly different interpretations of the history of southern cotton mill workers and their world. The pedagogical allure is…
Dedication
Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country
The political history of the lowcountry yeomanry poses more than the ordinary challenges of evidence and analysis. For the contradictions of American republicanism were played out larger than life in that corner of the United States, and they left an indelible mark on the historical record. In the Low Country, the historian is confronted at once with the most apparently “aristocratic” political culture in the nation in the arrogation of political…
Slavery, Gender, and the “Social Fabrick”
When yeoman farmers went to town on court day, to a July Fourth barbecue, or an annual militia review and heard prominent politicians such as Robert Barnwell Rhett or James Henry Hammond defend slavery against the calumnies of abolitionists, they probably cheered as vociferously as the planters with whom they rubbed shoulders. For judging by the remains in the written record, those politicians and political theorist invariably rang what were to y…
Appendix
Producing Independence
Historians never find it easy to cross the threshold of the household and look inside. For the most part, they have stayed outside, witnessing the struggle for independence by yeoman heads of household from the vantage point of the federal census taker or local merchant. Yet that independence, and its attendant public meanings, was produced, quite literally, out of the relations of power and dependency that prevailed within the household’s bounda…
“To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold”
On December 17, 1860, the South Carolina secession convention assembled in the state capitol’s First Baptist Church to write the Ordinance of Secession that rent the Union asunder. In sheltering under the eaves of evangelicalism, delegates sought divine sanction for the revolutionary act they were about to commit, and they sought no less to unite the people of the state for the struggle that lay ahead.
Unequal Masters
Domestic dependencies had public meanings in the South Carolina Low Country. In the complex world outside the fence where masters met on no man’s particular land, yeomen’s masterly identity engendered quite contradictory meanings, committing them to independence and the public assertion of their social and political rights even as it wedded them to the relations of power and domestic dependency that supported it.1 The defense of their own indepen…
Abbreviations
“Households of Faith”
When Daniel Baker held out to tortured sinners a vision of deliverance and sanctuary, he used an image of love and intimacy very close to home. “We are all,” he would say of those who had found Jesus, “members of the same household of faith.” The perfected image of the family of household relations consecrated by love, piety, and fellowship-was his model of Christian community. But when he referred to “God the Householder,” head of the heavenly h…
Boundaries of Power
Sometime in the fall of 1855 near Adams Run in Colleton District, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a yeoman neighbor named Price came to blows over Price’s relationship to the slaves on Elliott’s PonPon plantation. Convinced that the “vulgar” Price had been engaged in illegal trading with the PonPon slaves, Elliott had “knocked him down,” an insult Price had answered with two pistol shots in Elliott’s face that were “so close…
Tables
Subject American Women's History US Cultural History Early 19th Century US History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
“Like a Great Family”
One Saturday in January 1854, John Kelly stood up in Gum Branch Baptist Church in rural Darlington District and announced that “his wife Lenore Kelly had left his house.” As he stood there, supplicant, before his brethren, Kelly knew what he had begun, knew that he had just invited community intrusion into the most intimate aspect of his domestic affairs. In making the admission-in preempting accusation-he attempted, no doubt, to assert a measure…
Unheard Voices
Journal Article Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women. Ed. by Anne Firor Scott. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $29-95, ISBN 0-8139-1432-9. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8139-1433-7.) Get access Stephanie McCurry Stephanie McCurry University of California, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4…
Masters Of Small Worlds
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region’s powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and ge…
Masters of Small Worlds
Masters of Small Worlds
Journal Article Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. By Stephanie McCurry. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx, 320 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-507236-7.) Get access Kenneth S. Greenberg Kenneth S. Greenberg Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Masters of Small Worlds
Women Numerous and Armed
This chapter examines the response of Confederate women, especially poor soldiers' wives, to the hardships brought on by a war that witnessed enormous expansion of the Confederate state. Focusing on a series of sometimes violent demonstrations triggered by shortages of food, it presents examples of interstate political communication and organization among non-elite white women that suggests a major shift in the relationship between citizens and t…
Women Numerous and Armed
Reckoning with the Confederacy
The article reprises the main arguments of McCurry's 2010 book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South: the nature of the Confederate project; the terrible reckoning-including with its own people-that came to the new nation with war; and the radically transformative consequences of white Southerners' risky gamble on proslavery nationalism. It also lays out the methodological contribution of the book as an attempt to write…
Enemy Women and the Laws of War in the American Civil War
One of the most important legacies of the American Civil War, not just in the re-united States of America but also in the nineteenth and twentieth century world, were the new laws of war that the conflict introduced. “Lieber's Code,” named after the man who authored it for the Lincoln administration, was a set of instructions written and issued in April 1863 to govern the conduct of “the armies of the United States in the field.” It became a temp…
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