Storey, Margaret M. 1969–

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Storey, Margaret M. 1969–

PERSONAL:

Born March 15, 1969. Education: Macalester College, B.A. (cum laude), 1991; Emory University, Ph.D., 1999.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, DePaul University, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL 60614. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Academic. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, teaching associate, 1996; DePaul University, Chicago, IL, instructor, 1998-99, assistant professor, 1999-2004, associate professor, 2004—. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences fellow, Emory University, 1992-96; Mellon fellow in Southern Studies, Emory University, 1996-97; Newberry Library summer fellow for undergraduate seminar instructors, 2000; American Civilization fellow, Pierpont Morgan Library, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2002.

MEMBER:

Southern Historical Association, Organization of American Historians.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Recipient of numerous research grants; Excellence in Teaching Award, DePaul University, 2001.

WRITINGS:

Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals and academic journals, including Journal of Southern History, Historical Journal, American Historical Review, American Studies, New-York Journal of American History, American Nineteenth Century History, Alabama Review, Journal of Appalachian Studies, and North and South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society. Anonymous reviewer for Journal of Southern History.

SIDELIGHTS:

Margaret M. Storey is an academic. Born on March 15, 1969, Storey began her higher education studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, earning a bachelor of arts degree in history and English, cum laude, in 1991. Storey completed a Ph.D. in United States history in 1999 from Emory University. Her dissertation dealt with the topic of Union sympathizers living in Civil War-era Alabama.

Storey began lecturing as a teaching associate at Emory University in 1996. Just before completing her doctoral degree, she began working as an instructor at Chicago's DePaul University. By the time her dissertation was finished, she was promoted to assistant professor of history at DePaul University. She held this position until 2004, when she was made an associate professor of history at the university. Her research interests include Southern U.S. history, Civil War history, and nineteenth-century U.S. social and political history.

Storey is a professional member of the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. A recipient of numerous research grants, Storey received DePaul University's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. She is a contributor to periodicals and academic journals, including the Journal of Southern History, Historical Journal, American Historical Review, American Studies, New-York Jour-nal of American History, American Nineteenth Century History, Alabama Review, Journal of Appalachian Studies, and North and South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society.

Storey published her first book, Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, in 2004. The account, a revised edition of her dissertation, considers the difficulties faced by Union supporters living in Alabama during the American Civil War. Storey focuses primarily on social, cultural, and ideological aspects of their life, rather than making political assessments.

Brian Donovan, reviewing the book on H-CivWar, described the book as "a thorough, well-written, and informative contribution to an important new trend" among Civil War historians. Donovan concluded that "Loyalty and Loss is an important work for understanding the dynamics of allegiance in the Civil War. While the study is localized and circumscribed (those wishing to further investigate Storey's methodology can refer to her extensive appendices), it fits snugly into a large and growing field of social history that recasts an important aspect of Civil War studies. Well written, informative, and accessible, Loyalty and Loss is on the front line of Civil War social history and is a welcome addition to recent scholarship." David A. Lincove, reviewing the book in the Historian, commented that "Storey deploys a wide variety of primary and secondary sources." Lincove labeled it "an important contribution" in the field of Southern Unionist studies. Lincove concluded that "Storey provides a clear picture of unionists in Alabama who came together to resist the Confederacy from its beginning out of complete loyalty to the United States, rather than initially cooperating with the secessionist cause."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, February 1, 2006, Samuel L. Webb, review of Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, p. 184.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 1, 2005, J.Y. Simon, review of Loyalty and Loss, p. 919.

Historian, March 22, 2006, David A. Lincove, review of Loyalty and Loss, p. 166.

Journal of American History, June 1, 2005, Robert C. Kenzer, review of Loyalty and Loss, p. 223.