Elizabeth Varon

Varon graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A.,1985), and from Yale University, (Ph.D., 1993). She was professor of history at Wellesley College, and Temple University.^[1] She is an Organization of American Historians lecturer.^[2] She was co-director of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.^[3]

Varon served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2023-24 academic year.^[4]

She and her husband, William I. Hitchcock, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have two children.

• We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Univ of North Carolina Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-6608-5.
• Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Oxford University Press, USA, 2003, ISBN 9780195142280
• Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Univ of North Carolina Press. 1 November 2008. ISBN 978-0-8078-8718-9.^[5]
• Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, USA. 6 September 2013. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-19-934792-6.^[6]
• Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-086060-8.
• Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 978-19-8214827-0. ^{[1][7][8][9][10][11]}