Annual Anne Firor Scott Lecture

Speaker, Laura Edwards talks about her latest book, "Only the Clothes on Her Back" Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States RSVP requested at gsfs-trinity@duke.edu

Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty in the History Department at Princeton University. Before moving to Princeton, she taught in the History Department at Duke for twenty years. Her work focuses on the legal history of the nineteenth-century United States, with an emphasis on people's interactions with law and the legal system. Her talk is based in her most recent book, Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth Century United States (2022). She is also author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015) and The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009), which was awarded the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor prize for the best book in southern history. She has received fellowships from the Newberry Library, the National Humanities Center, the NEH, the ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation.
This is an in-person event. Duke University Rules and Restrictions apply.