Elizabeth Varon

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia (UVA) and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Her books include Southern Lady , Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew , A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy , and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War . Her Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War , won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman...See more

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia (UVA) and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Her books include Southern Lady , Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew , A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy , and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War . Her Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War , won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of The Wall Street Journal 's best books of 2019. See less