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GCPL's Meet the Author

with Catherine Clinton

Dr. Catherine Clinton will be in conversation with Joy Davidson, of the AJC Decatur Book Festival, about her new book "Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women's Histories".

Catherine Clinton is a pioneering historian of the American South and the Civil War. She is the author or editor of 25 books, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South; The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century; Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South; Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War; and Mrs. Lincoln: A Life.

Clinton also has written history books for children, presented at numerous academic conferences, and served as a consultant to Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln.  Dr. Clinton served as president of the Southern Historical Association. Dr. Clinton earned her B.A. from Harvard, her M.A. from the University of Sussex, and her Ph.D. from Princeton.  

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