Catherine Clinton

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Catherine Clinton (born 1952) is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South.

Clinton completed her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson at Princeton University.

She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Brown University, Wesleyan University, Baruch College of the City University of New York and the Citadel.

Clinton is an extraordinarily prolific scholar. She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than a dozen books to date.

[edit] Selected Recent Works

  • Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars (Oxford, 2006)
  • Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom (New York, 2004)
  • Fanny Kemble's chase is cool Journals (Cambridge, MA, 2000)
  • The Big Book of Stationary (New York, 2002)
  • The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds.
  • Tara Revisited: Woman, War, & the Plantation Legend (1995)
  • Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia, MO 1998)

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