Catherine Clinton

Catherine Clinton (born April 5, 1952 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American historian who now teaches history as a professor at Queen's University of Belfast . She specializes in the history of the United States . Her focus is on the history of the southern states . She did her PhD with James M. McPherson from Princeton University .

Life

Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where she attended Sunset Hill School for girls, now the Pembroke Hill School, which she graduated in 1969. She successfully completed her studies in sociology and African American history at Harvard University (Lowell House) in 1973. She wrote her thesis on young women on the plantations of the American South. Winning the Isobel Briggs Travel Scholarship from Radcliffe College brought her to England. In 1974 she graduated from the University of Sussex in American History ( American Studies ) with a thesis on Fanny Kemble as a Master (MA). After a stay as a lecturer at the University of Benghazi in Libya, she continued her history studies in 1975 as part of a Ph.D. program in Princeton, which she successfully completed in 1980 with James M. McPherson with a dissertation in continuation of her previous thesis specifically on the Situation of young women on the plantations of the American South between 1780 and 1835. She had already started working at Union College in 1979, which she held until she moved to the history faculty at Harvard in 1983. In 1983 she also published her first book, The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South . In 1984 she published her second book, The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century . In 1988 she moved to Brandeis University , where she began to write textbooks on social science topics for secondary schools. In 1990 she returned to Harvard and taught Afro-American History there, and from 1993 she switched to African-American literature at Brown University .

In 1994 she gave up her teaching duties and began to work exclusively as a writer so that she could look after her children more. Since then, she has produced more than 20 books in which she was involved as an author or editor. This also included scripts for television productions on historical topics, none of which have yet been realized. She has written shows for the History Channel and has been a consultant on other television productions. She has also written children's and non-fiction books for young readers.

In the fall of 1997 she held the Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Professor of History at the University of Richmond , Virginia, and the following fall she was the Lewis Jones Visiting Professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg , South Carolina . From autumn 1999 to May 2001, she took the Weissman -Gastprofessur of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York true. In 2001 and 2002 she taught history as a Mark Clark Professor at the Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina . In the following two years she was visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut .

In 1982 she married the New York architect Daniel Lee Colbert. She and her husband moved to Winchester , Massachusetts , their daughter Drew Colbert was born in Boston in 1984 and their son Ned Colbert in 1989.

Selection of works

• Fanny Kemble ’s Civil Wars (Oxford, 2006)
• Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom (New York, 2004)
• Fanny Kemble's 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)

Web links

• Catherine Clinton on the pages of Queen's University Belfast
• Catherine Clinton's website