2008 Fortenbaugh Speaker

Catherine Clinton arrived at  Queen's University Belfast in 2006, where she holds a chair in United States history. She has previously taught at Union College, Brandeis University, Wesleyan University and at Harvard University in both the Department of African American Studies and the Department of History. She has held visiting chairs at the University of Richmond, Wofford College, Baruch College of the City University of New York, and at the Citadel. She recently stepped down from the executive council of the Society of American Historians and continues to serve on the Advisory Committee to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. She has served as president of the Southern Association for Women's History and has published over 25 books, from children's fiction about Phillis Wheatley to the Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century, from Civil War studies for the National Park Service to poetry anthologies.   Her first book, The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South, appeared in 1982 and her recent biography of Harriet Tubman, was named as one of the best non-fiction books of 2004 by the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune. Her next project, Mrs. Lincoln, will be published by Harper Collins in 2009.

School of History and Anthropology
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Phone: (44) 02890975124
E-mail: c.clinton@qub.ac.uk
History website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/history 
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/History/ProspectiveStudents/PostgraduateTaughtDegrees/
Mobile: (44) 7879647336
U.S. cell:  (001) 203-981-8310

The title of Ms. Clinton's lecture will be "The Tears of a President: Lincoln, Empathy and Leadership".

Historian Catherine Clinton discusses Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820.  After her escape to the North in 1849, she returned to the South more than a dozen times to ferry other slaves along the Underground Railroad.  In her lecture, historian Catherine Clinton details the quest to uncover new information on Tubman's extraordinary life.  To listen to this lecture click here.