History & Art History

Jane Turner Censer, professor of history at George Mason University, received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1980. Her newest book is The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895, which appeared in 2003. Among her earlier works are North Carolina Planters and their Children, 1800-1860 (1984) and volumes four and six of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, (Defending the Union: The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1863 and The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874). She also edited and wrote an introduction for Sherwood Bonner’s Like unto Like, a feminist novel about the Reconstruction South, re-published by the University of South Carolina Press as part of its “Southern Classics” series. Her essays and prize winning articles have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Southern History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Journal of Legal History, Southern Cultures, and American Quarterly.

19th century U.S.; American South; women, gender, and family in U.S.