Freedmen School, Edisto Island, SC, 1860sPhoto Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Freedmen School, Edisto Island, SC, 1860s

Photo Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

 

My teaching has covered many facets of American History, including the History of Slavery in the US, the broader African American freedom struggle, America in the Industrial and Imperial Ages, and Southern History.

More specifically, I have taught undergraduate survey courses in African American History and U.S. History, as well as upper-level undergraduate courses in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the American South Post-1865, and the Making of Modern America. Undergraduate and graduate research and readings seminars have included the History of Slavery in the U.S., African American History, and Early American History.


Courses Taught: 

  • African American History to 1865

  • African American History Since 1865

  • Slavery in the Americas

  • Slavery in the United States Research Seminar

  • African American Sexuality from Slavery to Freedom

  • The Long Civil Rights Movement Senior Capstone Seminar

  • African American History Graduate Research Seminar

  • Civil War and Reconstruction

  • United States History to 1865

  • United States History since 1865

  • Making of Modern America: 1877-1920

  • History of the New South: 1865-present

  • Readings in US History to 1865 Graduate Seminar

Dressmaking class at Hampton Institute in Hampton, V.A. circa 1899Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Dressmaking class at Hampton Institute in Hampton, V.A. circa 1899

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division