This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at th...
Whether it was planter patriarchs struggling to maintain authority, or Jewish families coerced by...
Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catheri...
In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as hi...
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Mon...
Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gen...
When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarreled over many things--but few imbroglios we...
Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South ...
Just over fifty years ago on January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court decision on Roe v....
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Mon...
Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gen...
In Portraits of American Women, editors G. J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton present twent...