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Bercaw, Nancy

Fellowship Advisor

National Museum of American History staff

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Background And Education

education and training

• Ph.D. in Slavery and Emancipation, University of Pennsylvania , American Civilization 1994

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Bercaw, Nancy D., Tell, David, and Wolde-Michael, Tsione. 2021. "Excluding Black Americans from our history has proved deadly." , 2021-10-20. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/20/excluding-black-americans-our-history-has-proven-deadly/. 2021
  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2013. "A Gift for Secretary Chase." in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, edited by Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., 156-157. Smithsonian Books. 2013
  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2010. "The Gendered Construction of Free Labor in the Civil War Delta." in Mississippi Women, edited by Payne, Elizabeth Anne, Swain, Martha H., and Spruill, Marjorie Julian., 113-127. University of Georgia Press. 2010

• blog posting

  • Bercaw, Nancy D. and Arteaga, Patricia. 2020. "How butterfly wings helped a new collecting initiative take flight." [Blog] . 2020. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/butterfly-wings. 2020

• chapter

  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2016. "Slavery and Capitalism." in Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America, edited by Conwill, Kinshasha H., 63-72. Smithsonian Books. 2016
  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2016. "Women Held in Slavery." in Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America, edited by Conwill, Kinshasha H., 48-62. Smithsonian Books. 2016
  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2013. "Slavery and Emancipation." in Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race, edited by Holt, Thomas C. and Green, Laurie B., University of North Carolina Press. 2013
  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2013. "The Thirteenth Amendment." in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, edited by Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., 292-293. Smithsonian Books. 2013

• review

  • Bercaw, Nancy D. 2010. [Book review] "Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household." Journal of Southern History. 723-725. 2010

editor of

• book

  • Gender 2009

Other

Location

• National Museum of African American History & Culture  Department
• National Museum of American History  Department