Wood, Kirsten
- Associate Professor, History , Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Overview
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- Professor Wood is a specialist in the history of the Early American Republic. Her works span many subfields, including gender and women's history, the history of the American South and slavery, economic history, and politics and political culture. Her Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (2004) reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households. Her current book manuscript, "At the Crossroads," argues that in contrast to the temperance narrative which depicted taverns as lesions on the republic, taverns and their keepers played pivotal roles in the "transportation revolution," the "market revolution," and the evolution of party politics in the early republic. Her teaching interests stretch back into the colonial period and encompass the history of slavery in and beyond North America, women's and gender history, social history, and courses centered on the Early Republic.
Scholarly & Creative Works
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2014"Join with Heart and Soul and Voice": Music, Harmony, and Politics in the Early American RepublicFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.4.1083 Web of Science: 000344599100002
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2001Broken reeds and competent farmers: Slaveholding widows in the Southeastern United States, 1783-1861Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2001.0057 Web of Science: 000170954500003
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2021Women before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800.. Ed. 60.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2020.212 Web of Science: 000638189900027
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2020Richard Potter: America's First Black Celebrity. Ed. 118.Web of Science: 000670213400011
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2010The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America. Ed. 76.Web of Science: 000280746900016
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2009Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina. Ed. 30.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01440390903098094 Web of Science: 000269726500010
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2008Scarlett's sisters: Young women in the old south. Ed. 74.Web of Science: 000258001600029
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2008Southern sons: Becoming men in the new nation. Ed. 74.Web of Science: 000258001600028
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2008Georgia's frontier women: Female fortunes in a southern colony. Ed. 113.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/ahr.113.1.170 Web of Science: 000253342400053
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2007Braided relations, entwined lives: The women of Charleston's urban slave society.. Ed. 73.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/27649581 Web of Science: 000250846200015
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2006Closer to freedom: Enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation south.. Ed. 111.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/ahr.111.1.173 Web of Science: 000235511000074
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2005Notorious in the neighborhood: Sex and families across the color line in Virginia 1787-1861.. Ed. 110.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/ahr.110.4.1178 Web of Science: 000232968800073
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2005The origins of the southern middle class, 1800-1861.. Ed. 92.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3659309 Web of Science: 000240382000037
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2004Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African princess, Florida slave, plantation slaveowner.. Ed. 70.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/27648497 Web of Science: 000223107100024
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2002Fanny Kemble's civil wars. Ed. 68.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3070190 Web of Science: 000177210800033
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2002The imagined civil War: Popular literature of the North and South, 1861-1865. Ed. 30.Web of Science: 000174379000009
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2002The political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872. Ed. 30.Web of Science: 000174379000010
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2001A republic for the ages: The United States capitol and the political culture of the early republic. Ed. 67.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3070098 Web of Science: 000166890500016
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1998The devil's lane: Sex and race in the early South. Ed. 18.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3124686 Web of Science: 000076632000017
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Silva, Rene J, Pennsylvania's Loyalists and Disaffected in the Age of Revolution: Defining the Terrain of Reintegration, 1765-1800 2018
- Weimer, Gregory K, Policing Slavery: Order and the Development of Early Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and Salvador 2015
- Ardalan, Christine, Forging Professional Public Health Nursing in a Southern State: Florida's Public Health Nurses, 1889 to 1934 2012
Contact
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- Kirsten Wood
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