Elizabeth R. Varon
AUTHOR

Elizabeth R. Varon

History | Biographies & Memoirs
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
ELIZABETH R. VARON is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. Varon grew up in northern Virginia. She received her MA from Swarthmore College and PhD from Yale, and has held teaching positions at Wellesley College and Temple University. A specialist in the Civil War era and 19th-century South, Varon is the author of We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998); Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (2003), which won the Lillian Smith Prize of the Southern Regional Council, the People’s Choice Award of the Library of Virginia, and the Richard Slatten Biography Prize of the Virginia Historical Society; and Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (2008) and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (2013). Appomattox won the 2014 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the 2014 Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize for Civil War History (Austin Civil War Roundtable), was finalist for the 2014 Jefferson Davis Award (Museum of the Confederacy), and was named one of Civil War Monitor’s Best Books of 2014. Varon’s public presentations include book talks at the Lincoln Bicentennial in Springfield; and at Gettysburg’s Civil War Institute; and on C-Span’s Book TV. She is also a featured speaker in the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship program.
Read less

The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.

Featured Article: The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

Best Sellers

Product list
  • Longstreet cover art

    • Longstreet

    • The Confederate General Who Defied the South
    • Written by: Elizabeth Varon
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-21
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Price: $24.27 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $24.27 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Armies of Deliverance cover art

    Price: $33.40 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $33.40 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Disunion! cover art

    • Disunion!

    • The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859
    • Written by: Elizabeth R. Varon
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2014-02-06
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Price: $37.53 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $37.53 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Appomattox cover art

    • Appomattox

    • Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
    • Written by: Elizabeth R. Varon
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Price: $33.53 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $33.53 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00