The University of Georgia, Department of History

Stephen Berry

Antebellum and Civil War America; U.S. South; gender, family, and culture

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000

Office: 235 LeConte
Office Hours: TR 3:30-5:00By Appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2500

berry@uga.edu

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Stephen Berry's teaching and writing focus on the Civil War as a lived experience. He is interested in how men and women reacted to, were changed by, and endured after, the conflict reshaped their lives.

Research and Teaching Interests

[African American]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Gender & Sexuality]
[U.S. South]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[War and Diplomacy]

Selected Publications

Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (University of Georgia Press and Southern Texts Society, 2007) Editor [More Info]

House of Abraham: Lincoln & The Todds, a Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) [More Info]

"When Metal Meets Mettle," North & South (July 2006)

"The Lithographer's War," North & South (May 2005)

All That Makes a Man: Love & Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2003) [More Info]