Lorri Glover, Lindsay Young Professor and professor of history, co-wrote The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, which appeared from Henry Holt in August. Historian James Horn described it this way: “In this gripping account of shipwreck, mutiny, perseverance, and deliverance, the epic story of the wreck of the Sea Venture and its consequences for the survival of Jamestown, England’s first successful colony in the New World, is told for the first time. Glover and Smith persuasively make the case that in saving themselves, the 150 castaways stranded for nearly a year on the remote island of Bermuda ultimately saved English America.”
Selected Publications
“The Colonial South,” in Daniel Letwin, ed., The American South: A Reader and Guide (forthcoming)
The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, Henry Holt, 2008
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
“An Education in Southern Masculinity: The Ball Family of South Carolina in the New Republic,” The Journal of Southern History, February 2003
All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000