Margaret Storey

Margaret Storey is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in United States History from Emory University in 1999 and is the author of Loyalty and Loss: Alabama’s Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press 2004), the editor of the memoir of a Tennessee Union cavalryman, Tried Men and True: Or, Union Life in Dixie (University of Alabama Press 2011), and co-author, with Nicolas Proctor, of Kentucky 1861: Loyalty, State, and Nation (2017), part of the Reacting to the Past Series from W. W. Norton.

Her most recent article, “War’s Domestic Corollary: Union Occupation Households in the Civil War South,” appeared in LeeAnn Whites’ and Lisa Tendrich Frank’s edited volume, Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2020).

Research and Teaching Interests

• United States History
• The Civil War & Reconstruction
• Slavery & Jim Crow