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  • Hope McCaffrey
  • 2024-25
  • American Dissertation Fellowships
  • Northwestern University (Evanston-IL)
  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • History
  • US History
  • "White Men or None": White Women and Democratic Politics in the Free States, 1840–1865
  • Evanston
  • IL
  • United States
  • Hope McCaffrey is a PhD candidate in history focusing on nineteenth-century US women’s and gender history. Her dissertation examines how and why white women who lived in the US antebellum free states sought political power by aligning with the Democratic party from 1840 to 1865. Her work helps to chronicle the history of women who aim to enhance the racial privileges afforded by the preservation of a white supremacist society while reinforcing their subordinate gender position.