Elizabeth Varon

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon's books include Longstreet ; 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 book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War , won the...See more

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon's books include Longstreet ; 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 book, 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