The Melbern G. Glasscock Lectures:  New Directions in U.S. History

 

presents

 

"Reconstruction and America's Tangled History of

Rights, Law, and Governance"

 

by

 

Dr. Laura Edwards

Professor of History, Duke University

 

 

Monday, October 23, 2006

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Sterling Evans Library, Room 204E

 

Laura F. Edwards is Professor of History at Duke University, where she also serves as Director of Graduate Studies.  Her research focuses on women, gender, and the law in the American South in the nineteenth century.  She is the author of Gendered Strife and Confusion:  The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997) and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000), both published by the University of Illinois Press, as well as 16 articles and book chapters.

 

 

A public lecture sponsored by the Department of History.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Walter L. Buenger by email: w-buenger@tamu.edu