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Elizabeth R. Varon (born December 16, 1963) is an American historian, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia.

Life

Varon graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A.,1985), and from Yale University, (Ph.D., 1993). She was professor of history at Wellesley College, and Temple University.[1] She is an Organization of American Historians lecturer.[2] She was co-director of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.[3]

Varon served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2023-24 academic year.[4]

She and her husband, William I. Hitchcock, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have two children.

Works

References

  1. ^ "Project Co-Director: Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  2. ^ "Elizabeth R. Varon". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  3. ^ "Project Co-Director: Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  4. ^ "The RAI welcomes 2023-24 Visiting Professors". Rothermere American Institute. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  5. ^ Adam Smith (August 2009). "Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859". H-CivWar. The debate on Civil War causation will continue, but this is a thoughtful effort to circumvent the revisionist/fundamentalist dichotomy, and as good an account of the worldview of antebellum Americans as one can read.
  6. ^ "Appomattox". Kirkus. August 12, 2013. A careful, scholarly consideration of how the ambiguities surrounding the defeat of the South resolved into the bitter eras of Reconstruction and Jim Crow.

External links

  • Elizabeth R. Varon (February 1, 2011). "Women at War". The New York Times.