Books: •
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (2019) {{cite book {{cite book •
Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching (1979) {{cite book {{cite book
Collaborative Books: •
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987) {{cite book
Edited Works: •
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Eli Hill: A Novel of Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020). Coedited and introduced with Bruce Baker.
Selected Articles in Scholarly Journals: • “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,”
Journal of American History 91 (March 2005): 1233–263. Reprinted in
Best Articles in American History, 2007, ed. Jacqueline Jones (New York, 2007). • “Women Writers, the ‘Southern Front,’ and the Dialectical Imagination,”
Journal of Southern History 69 (Feb. 2003): 3-38. • “Last Words,” contribution to Round Table on Self and Subject,
Journal of American History 89 (June 2002): 30–36. • “‘To Widen the Reach of Our Love’: Autobiography, History, and Desire,”
Feminist Studies 26 (Spring 2000): 231–47. • “‘You Must Remember This’: Autobiography as Social Critique,”
Journal of American History 85 (September 1998): 439–65. Reprinted in
The New South: New Histories, ed. J. William Harris, (London, 2007). • “Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity,”
American Quarterly 50 (March 1998): 110–24. Reprinted in
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (New York, 2000, 2007, 2008). • “A Later Comment”; contribution to “What We See and Can’t See in the Past: A Round Table,”
Journal of American History 83 (March 1997): 1268–70. • “Broadus Mitchell,”
Radical History Review 45 (Fall 1989): 31–38. Reprinted as “Broadus Mitchell: Economic Historian of the South,”
Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations, ed. Glenn Feldman (Tuscaloosa, 2001), 25–31. • “Partial Truths,”
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (Summer 1989): 900–911. • “Cotton Mill People: Work, Community and Protest in the Textile South, 1880–1940,”
American Historical Review 91 (April 1986): 245–86. Coauthors Robert Korstad and James Leloudis. Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of the American South, ed. Paul D. Escott and David R. Goldfield (Lexington, Mass., 1990); Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, ed. Leon Fink (Lexington, Mass., 1992; Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II, ed. Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle (Guilford, Conn., 2001). • “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South,” Journal of American History 73 (September 1986): 354–82. Reprinted in
Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews (1982, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2009, 2011, 2015);
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Ellen Dubois and Vicki Ruiz (1990, 1994);
Gender in American History from 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh (1993);
Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past, ed. Catherine Clinton (1994);
Major Problems in American Women’s History, ed. Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M. Alexander (1996). • “Second Thoughts: On Writing a Feminist Biography,”
Feminist Studies 13 (Spring 1987): 19–37. • Preface, “Women’s History Goes to Trial: EEOC v. Sears Roebuck and Company,”
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11 (Summer 1986): 751–53.
Book Chapters: • "How We Tell About the Civil Rights Movement and Why It Matters,"
NASA in the Long Civil Movement, ed. Brian C. Odom and Stephan P. Waring (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019), ix-xiv. • "The Good Fight,"
Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South, ed. Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2019), 120–26. • Die Lange Bürgerrechtsbewegung und die politisch Instrumentalisierung von Geschichte,"
Von Selma Bis Ferguson: Rasse un Rassismus in den USA, ed. Michael Butter, Astrid Fanke, and Hor st Tonn (Bielefeld, 2016), 15-46. • “Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program,”
The Oxford Handbook of Oral History, ed. Donald A. Ritchie (New York, 2010), 409–16. Coauthor Kathryn Nasstrom. • “Reflections,”
Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Race and Politics in the New South, ed. Jane Dailey, Glenda Gilmore, and Bryant Simon (Princeton, 2000), 34–07. • “Afterward: Reverberations,”
Remembering: Oral History Performance, ed. Della Pollock (New York, 2005), 187–98. • “O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer’s Odyssey,” in
Forgotten Heroes from America’s Past: Inspiring Portraits from Our Leading Historians, ed. Susan Ware (New York, 1998), 185–93. • “O. Delight Smith’s Progressive Era: Labor, Feminism and Reform in the Urban South,” in
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism, ed. Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock (Urbana, 1993), 166–98. • “Partial Truths,” in
Southern Women: Histories and Identities, ed. Virginia Bernhard et al. (Columbia, MO, 1992). • “Lives through Time: Second Thoughts on Jessie Daniel Ames,”
The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women, ed. Sara Alpern et al. (Urbana, 1992). • “Private Eyes, Public Women: Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, 1913–1915,” in
Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ed. Ava Baron (Ithaca, 1991), 243–72. Reprinted in
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People, ed. Ardis Cameron (Malden, MA, 2005). • “History, Story, and Performance: The Making and Remaking of a Southern Cotton Mill World,” in
Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies, ed. Günter H. Lenz, Hartmut Keil, and Sabine Bröck-Sallah (New York, 1990), 324–44. Coauthor Della Pollock. • "A Bond of Common Womanhood: Building an Interracial Community in the Jim Crow South," in
Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (Glenview, Ill, 1990), 99–114. • “Women in the South,” in
Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham, ed. John B. Boles and Evelyn T. Nolen (Baton Rouge, 1987), 454–509. Coauthor Anne Firor Scott. • “‘The Mind That Burns in Each Body’: Women, Rape, and Racial Violence,” in
Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed.
Ann Snitow et al (New York, 1983), 328–49. Reprinted in
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, ed. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, Calif., 1992);
Southern Exposure, 12 (November/December 1984). • “‘A Truly Subversive Affair’: Women Against Lynching in the Twentieth-Century South,” in
Women of America: A History, ed. Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton (Boston, 1979), 360–88. ;Publication Awards •
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America: • PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, PEN America (distinguished biography of exceptional literary, narrative, and artistic merit, based on scrupulous research) • Summersell Prize, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama (best book on the history of the American South) • Prose Award, the Association of American Publishers (outstanding work by a trade publisher) • Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association (co-winner, best book on southern history) • Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians (co-winner, best book in southern women’s history) • Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians (co-winner, best book on any topic in southern history written by a woman) • Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society (best book on Georgia history); Plutarch Award Finalist, Biographers International (best biography of 2019) •
The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past: Best Articles in American History, 2007 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), ed. Jacqueline Jones for the Organization of American Historian (chosen by a panel of eight historians from 300 scholarly and popular journals) •
‘You Must Remember This,’': A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians (best article in the field of southern women's history) •
Like a Family: • Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association (best work in English on the history of the Americas) • Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians, co-winner (best book in social history) • Philip Taft Labor History Prize, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (outstanding contribution to American labor history) • John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention, American Studies Association (exemplary interdisciplinary scholarship) • “Disorderly Women”: • Annual Article Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (best article on any historical subject written by an American woman) • Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians (best scholarly article published in the
Journal of American History) •
Revolt Against Chivalry: • Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association (best first book in Southern history) • Lillian Smith Award, Southern Regional Council (for writing that carries on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding) • Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University, 1974 best dissertation in history, diplomacy, or diplomatic affairs) ==References==