Lorri Glover, Ph.D.
Professor; Bannon Endowed Chair
History
Courses Taught
Research in American History (graduate & undergraduate); Early American History in a Global Age (graduate); American Historiography (graduate); Approaches to Writing U.S. History (graduate); The American Revolution (undergraduate); Historians Craft (undergraduate); American History to 1865 (undergraduate); World History since 1500 (undergraduate)
Education
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1996
M.A. Clemson University, 1992
B.S. University of North Alabama, 1990
Research Interests
I’m fascinated by early America history, especially the North American colonization and the creation of the American Republic. Within the general field of early American history, I have ranged fairly broadly, publishing books on siblings and kinship in colonial South Carolina, masculinity in the early Republic, the colonization of Virginia and Bermuda, the intersection of family and politics in the lives of leading American Revolutionaries, and the contentious debates over ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787-1788. My most recent books include a biography, Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution, and an edited collection, The Gendered Republic. Pinckney’s remarkable life and her writings—the largest collection from any women in the eighteenth-century South—afford rare insight into agriculture and commerce in the Atlantic World, the American Revolution, southern plantations and racial slavery, and gender history. The essays in The Gendered Republic were written by some of the best emerging and established historians working in early American history, and my co-editing partner and I were proud to bring together those cutting edge essays to showcase the transformative impact of gender history on understandings of the early American republic.
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020)
The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries (Yale University Press, 2014)
The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, co-author with Daniel Blake Smith (Henry Holt, 2008)
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds Among the Early South Carolina Gentry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Edited Volumes
The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation, edited with Craig Thompson Friend (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
Reinterpreting Southern Histories, edited with Craig Thompson Friend (Louisiana State University Press, 2020)
Death and the American South, edited with Craig Thompson Friend (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, edited with Craig Thompson Friend (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
Textbooks
United States History (Middle School and High School), with Daina Ramey Berry, Albert S. Broussard, James
M. McPherson, and Donald Ritchie (McGraw-Hill, 2023)
Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, co-author with William Bruce Wheeler (Cengage, 2017, 8th edition)
Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, co-author with William Bruce Wheeler (Cengage, 2012, 7th edition)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women’s Wars for Independence,” Journal of Southern History 92:1 (February 2026): 1-26
“The Philadelphia Convention,” in Marjoleine Kars, Michael McDonnell, and Andrew M. Schocket, eds., Cambridge History of the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
“Women’s Histories of the Early American Republic,” co-author with Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, in The Gendered Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
“The Ratification Battle in Virginia,” Virginia Encyclopedia, 2025
“Nothing Inevitable: The Struggle for Ratification,” The American Historian, Spring 2024
“The Strange Career of C. Vann Woodward,” Journal of Southern History 89 (August 2023): 535-548
“Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Female Fortitude and the Revolutionary War,” in Holly Mayer, ed., Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
“The State of Southern Historiography,” with Craig Thompson Friend, in Reinterpreting Southern Histories (Louisiana State University Press, 2020)
“When ‘History becomes Fable instead of Fact’: The Deaths and Resurrections of Virginia’s Leading Revolutionaries,” in Death in the American South (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
“The Colonial South,” in Daniel Letwin, ed., The American South (Edinburgh University Press, 2011)
“Faith and the Founding of Virginia,” Historically Speaking, June 2010
“Making Southern Men: Education and Masculinity among the Early Republic Gentry,” in Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
“An Education in Southern Masculinity: The Ball Family of South Carolina in the New Republic,” Journal of Southern History 69 (2003): 39-71
“Between Two Cultures: The Worlds of Rosalie Stier Calvert,” Maryland Historical Magazine April 1996
Honors and Awards
- President, Southern Historical Association, 2025
- SLU Women’s Commission, Woman of the Year, 2022
- Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Biography Prize, 2021
- George Rogers Book Prize, South Carolina Historical Society, 2021
- Jules and Francis Landry Book Prize, LSU Press, 2020
- Donald G. Brennan Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2020
- Outstanding Alumni Award, Educator of the Year, University of North Alabama, 2017
- Fred W. Smith Library Fellow, Mount Vernon, 2016
- President, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2015
- State Historical Society of Missouri Book Prize, 2015