Lyon G. Tyler Lecture
Friday, April 19, 2013, noon, Washington 201, College of William & Mary
Professor
Stephanie McCurry will talk about organizing research, thinking through
arguments, and crafting the big book.
Stephanie McCurry is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History
at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Masters of Small
Worlds: Yeoman Households and
the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford
UP, 1995), won numerous prizes including the John Hope Franklin Prize and the
Charles Syndor Award. Her latest book, Confederate
Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard UP,
2010), won the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Merle Curti Award. It was also
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.