Thavolia Glymph wins multiple awards for her book, "The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom and Nation"

Thavolia Glymph and book cover "The Women's Fight"
   

Thavolia Glymph's book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) won three awards from the Organization of American Historians.

  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award
  • The Mary Nickliss Prize
  • The Darlene Clark Hine Award

The book was  a finalist for the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, awarded annually “for the finest work on English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era”. 

It also won the 2021 John Nau Prize for the best book in the American Civil War Era.