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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies.  She earned her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her most recent book, These United States:  A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present, coauthored with Thomas Sugrue, appeared as a trade book in October, 2015, published by W. W. Norton.  It was published as two textbooks in the spring of 2016, one on 1890 to the present, and the other on 1945 to the present.  Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, was one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of 2008, and the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008. She is the editor of Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights.  Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow:  Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, published in 1996, won Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize.  She is at work on a study of the African American artist Romare Bearden and his family interpreted through his artistic work, to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Recent Publications

These United States:  A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present, coauthored with Thomas Sugrue, appeared as a trade book in October, 2015, published by W. W. Norton.

Media Coverage

Op-eds in New York Times;,Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, Yale Daily News, Raleigh News & Observer

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@gilmoreglenda

Country Focus

United States

Expertise by Geography

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Government, Politics, Race, Women