Eliza Pinckney

Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 820

Jan 11, 2021 7:00 pm
52:47 mins

Lorrie Glover looks at the life of Eliza Pinckney, one of the wealthiest planters in pre-revolutionary America. Catherine Clinton, of the University of Texas at San Antonio, shares a complicated perspective on the Civil War from the diary of Mary Chesnut, a Southern feminist.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

38m

Lorri Glover looks at the life of Eliza Pinckney, one of the wealthiest planters in pre-revolutionary America.

Mary Chesnut's Diary

15m

Catherine Clinton, of the University of Texas at San Antonio, shares a unique perspective on the Civil War from the diary of Mary Chesnut, a Southern feminist.