Franklin & Marshall College

Laura Edwards, professor of history at Duke University, will discuss "Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era" on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Stahr Auditorium Stager Hall.

The talk, the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture in honor of Women's History Month, is sponsored by Franklin & Marshall's Center for Liberal Arts and Society, the History Department, the Women's & Gender Studies Program, and is free and open to the public.

The Organization of American Historians promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history.

Edwards' talk will focus on women in the 19th century South, revealing a portrait of the women and women's roles, political and social, that reach far beyond the air-headed, passive stereotypes of the slave and Southern Belle. Based on her book by the same name, Edwards will present the history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War.

Edwards teaches courses on women, gender, and law at Duke. Her research focuses on the same issues, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth-century U.S. South.  She is 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).  She is currently working on a book-length manuscript, "The People and Their Peace: The Reconstitution of Governance in the Post-Revolutionary U.S. South."  She is also currently first vice president of the Southern Association of Women Historians.

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