ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
December 2012: Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies, Arizona State University West.
September 1998 to December 2012: Professor of History and American Studies, Arizona State University West.
May 1992 to September 1998: Associate Professor of American Studies, Arizona State University West.
September 1990-May 1992: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Arizona State University West.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Chair, Department of American Studies, ASU West, 1996-1998.
Co-chair (for the Division of History and Cultures), Department of American Studies, ASU West, 2001-2002.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC HISTORY APPOINTMENTS
October 1982-June 1988: Associate Director of the University of Texas Center for Studies in Texas History and, concurrently, Associate Director of the Texas State Historical Association; Managing editor, The Handbook of Texas; and Lecturer, American Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin.
September 1980-October 1982: Humanities Research Associate (Curator of History), The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures–San Antonio and much much more.
December 2012: Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies, Arizona State University West.
September 1998 to December 2012: Professor of History and American Studies, Arizona State University West.
May 1992 to September 1998: Associate Professor of American Studies, Arizona State University West.
September 1990-May 1992: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Arizona State University West.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Chair, Department of American Studies, ASU West, 1996-1998.
Co-chair (for the Division of History and Cultures), Department of American Studies, ASU West, 2001-2002.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC HISTORY APPOINTMENTS
October 1982-June 1988: Associate Director of the University of Texas Center for Studies in Texas History and, concurrently, Associate Director of the Texas State Historical Association; Managing editor, The Handbook of Texas; and Lecturer, American Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin.
September 1980-October 1982: Humanities Research Associate (Curator of History), The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures–San Antonio and much much more.
“‘Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had’: The Experience of Middle Class Southern White Women in the Civil War” is based on the letters of Emily Beck Moxley, a farm woman from Alabama’s “Wiregrass Region,” written to her husband in the Seventeenth Alabama Infantry. Contrary to the stereotypical image of the Southern Belle, the vast majority of Southern white women in 1861 owned neither plantations nor slaves and were highly unlikely to have left a written record of their existence. Of all white Americans at mid-nineteenth century, they were the ones who were most likely to be illiterate. And even for those who could read and write—unlike the women of the plantation aristocracy—they were highly unlikely to have left any record of their lives such as memoirs, diaries, or journals.
Emily Moxley’s letters were almost miraculously preserved and found their way into the University of Texas archives. They reveal a story of privation, cultural isolation, and sheer terror engendered by the war. They give to the modern reader a sharply focused, and often heart-breaking, view of the day-to-day life of a woman left behind on a hardscrabble farm in the depths of the Alabama outback. They hold a strong light to issues of rural economy, family life, health and health care, pregnancy and child rearing. And, to a small degree, they give us clues to race relations and racial attitudes of the non-slave owning segment of the South’s white population—a majority, but typically a silent one. Finally, these letters reveal a remarkable step toward what, one hundred years later, came to be called “women’s liberation.”
Emily Moxley’s letters were almost miraculously preserved and found their way into the University of Texas archives. They reveal a story of privation, cultural isolation, and sheer terror engendered by the war. They give to the modern reader a sharply focused, and often heart-breaking, view of the day-to-day life of a woman left behind on a hardscrabble farm in the depths of the Alabama outback. They hold a strong light to issues of rural economy, family life, health and health care, pregnancy and child rearing. And, to a small degree, they give us clues to race relations and racial attitudes of the non-slave owning segment of the South’s white population—a majority, but typically a silent one. Finally, these letters reveal a remarkable step toward what, one hundred years later, came to be called “women’s liberation.”
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