Historian Presents Goodstein Lecture on Southern Women
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Historian Catherine Clinton will present the 18th annual Anita S. Goodstein Lecture in Women’s History at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 30, in Gailor Auditorium on the campus of the University of the South. Her talk on Southern women will be followed by a reception, and the public is invited.
Catherine Clinton, Ph.D., is the Denman Endowed Professor in American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a pioneering historian of the American South and the Civil War.
Clinton is the author or editor of 25 books, including “The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South;” “The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century;” “Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South;” and “Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.”
Her books “Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War” and “Mrs. Lincoln: A Life” are among several that have been History Book Club selections. Clinton also has written history books for children and served as a consultant to Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln.” In 2015-16, she held the position of president of the Southern Historical Association.
Clinton earned a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from the University of Sussex, and a Ph.D. from Princeton. She has taught previously at the Citadel, Wesleyan, Brandeis, and she holds a research position at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she taught from 2006-2014.