She has taught previously at Harvard University, Wesleyan University and Brown University. from the University of Sussex, and her Ph.D. She is an award-winning author for books for young readers, including I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry (1998), The Black Soldier (2000), A Poem of Her Own: Women’s Voices Past and Present (2003), and Hold the Flag High (2005). Two volumes are forthcoming in 2023: January 6th and Roe V. Her co-editor of the series, Jim Downs, edited the second volume in the series: Voter Suppression in U.S. She edited the first volume, when it launched in 2019: Confederate Statues and Memorialization. She is the co-editor of the University of Georgia Series: HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES. She is the editor, most recently, of Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women’s Histories (2020).

She is a founding member of the Biography International Organization and has published three acclaimed biographies: Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars (2000), Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2004), and Mrs. She is also the sole author of The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century (1984, 1999), Tara Revisited: Women, War and the Plantation Legend (1995), Civil War Stories (1999) Public Women and the Confederacy (1999) and the co-author of Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century (1999). Her first monograph, The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South was published by Pantheon in 1982 and was a History Book Club selection. She is the author or editor of over 30 books. In 2020 she won the UTSA President’s Achievement Award in Research. Now, in a biography widely praised for its impeccable research and its compelling narrative, Harriet Tubman is revealed for the first time as a singular and complex character, a woman who defied simple categorization.Īvailable Now from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Paperback and Ebook from Little, Brown and Company.Professor Clinton is a pioneering historian of American women, the American South and the Civil War. To the slaveholders who sought her capture, she was a thief and a trickster. For the many slaves she led north to freedom, she was Moses. To John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry slave uprising, she was General Tubman.

Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures.

Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton