Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. Her book Gender and Jim Crow won the James A. Rawley Prize in 1997 for the best book in race relations and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book, both given by the Organization of American Historians. It also won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, awarded by the Southern Association for Women Historians and Yale University's Heyman Prize. Defying Dixie was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and a Notable Book of 2009 by the American Library Association. Gilmore has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, among others.
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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finis... SEE MORE