Catherine Clinton


Catherine Clinton is an American historian who is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She specializes in American history, particularly the history of the Southern United States, the American Civil War, American women, and African-American history.Guggenheim Fellowship

Career

Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from the Sunset Hill School in 1969. She studied sociology and African-American history at Harvard University. After graduating in 1973, she went on to receive her Master of Arts from the University of Sussex. In 1980, she earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University, completing her dissertation under the direction of James M. McPherson.
She has held academic positions at Union College, Harvard University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Wofford College, The University of Richmond, Wesleyan University, Queen's University, Belfast, Baruch College of the City University of New York and The Citadel. She currently holds a chair in American History at UTSA.
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 25 books. She is editor of a series titled Viewpoints on American Culture.
She serves on the scholarly advisory board of both Ford's Theatre and the Lincoln Cottage. She also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Civil War Times and Civil War History.
She has been an advisor on several documentaries, including Brother, Outsider: The life of Bayard Rustin and Rebel: Loreta Velasquez, Civil War Soldier and Spy, as well as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.

Personal life

Clinton lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Selected works

  • The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
  • The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
  • Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
  • Half-Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past
  • Tara Revisited: Woman, War, & the Plantation Legend
  • Life in Civil War America
  • The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds.
  • Civil War Stories Averitt Lecture Series, Georgia Southern University
  • Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds.
  • I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry
  • Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present
  • Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians
  • Public Women and the Confederacy Frank B. Klement Lecture, Marquette University.
  • The Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War
  • Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century
  • Fanny Kemble's Journals
  • Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South
  • The Black Soldier
  • Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars
  • A Poem of Her Own: Women's Voices Past and Present
  • Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
  • Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the Civil War
  • Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African-American Woman's Civil War Memoir
  • Hold the Flag High
  • Mrs. Lincoln: A Life
  • Booth Illustrated by Tanitoc
  • Mary Chesnut's Diary