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Stephanie McCurry

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Stephanie McCurry is an American historian of the nineteenth-century United States whose research focuses on the Civil War, the Confederacy, gender, citizenship, and political power. Her book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, published in 2010, examines how white women and enslaved people affected political relationships and claims to authority in the Confederate South. Her work treats the war as a conflict over social and political order as well as military control.

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What is Stephanie McCurry's Confederate Reckoning about?

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South examines political authority, citizenship, gender, and state power in the Confederacy. It was published in 2010 and argues that the Confederate state depended on contested forms of power beyond battlefield command.

How does Stephanie McCurry connect gender to the Civil War Confederacy?

She shows that ideas about male authority, women's obligations, and household power shaped Confederate politics. The war made those relationships unstable because military demands affected families, labor, property, and political claims.

What does Confederate Reckoning say about citizenship?

McCurry examines who could make political claims in the Confederate South and how wartime demands changed those claims. Her analysis includes soldiers, slaveholders, enslaved people, women, and non-elite white communities.

What earlier book by Stephanie McCurry is useful alongside Confederate Reckoning?

Masters of Small Worlds studies elite white men and household authority in the antebellum South. Reading it alongside Confederate Reckoning shows how local power and domestic hierarchy were transformed by the Civil War.

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