Margaret Storey

Margaret Storey is a Professor and Associate Dean at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, DePaul University. She holds a PhD from Emory University and teaches courses on the history of the United States, focusing on antebellum slavery and anti-slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow Era.

Education

• PhD, Emory University

Margaret Storey's research explores the intersection of political culture, social dynamics, and military influence during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her work centers on Unionists, gender roles in occupied territories, and the evolution of postwar Southern society.

Her publications highlight themes spanning the American Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and Southern History. Key subfields include political loyalty, anti-Confederate sentiment, gender studies, wartime memoirs, and the impact of military governance on social structures.

Margaret Storey's contributions to historical education include co-authoring the Reacting to the Past Series game Kentucky 1861: Loyalty, State, and Nation. She has authored and edited seminal works such as Loyalty and Loss and Tried Men and True, reflecting her expertise in primary source narratives and socio-political analysis.