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 John Lewis Krimmel's "Village Tavern," 1813-14 |
Fall 2010 Courses AMH 3643, TTh @ 2:00 pm: Early American History Through Fact, Film, and Fiction AMH 6932, W @ 5pm: Graduate Research Seminar Office Hours: T & Th: 1-1:45 W: 4-4:45 |
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My research and teaching interests include the social, economic, and political history of the early United States, with a particular emphasis on women, gender, and slavery. My first book, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (UNCP 2004), reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households. In my current research, I am investigating the economic, social, political, and gender dimensions of tavern-keeping and tavern-going in the early republic and antebellum periods. I offer an early American history survey on a regular basis, and I teach upper-division courses in early U.S., women's, southern, and slavery history. I have taught a variety of graduate courses, including a graduate research seminar exploring early American history from the perspective of the Atlantic world, American women's and gender history, and gender and slavery in the Americas. |
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Selected
Publications
"Gender and Slavery," in Mark Smith and Robert Paquette, eds., Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). "Making a Home in Public: Domesticity, Authority, and Family in the Old South's Public Houses," in Craig Friend and Anya Jabour, eds., Southern Families (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming). "Women
on the Move: Travel, Taverns, and Gender in Antebellum America," in
Mark Cheathem, ed., Jacksonian
America (ABC-CLIO, January 2008). "Old
Miss Sho'
Was
Good to Us . . . 'Cause She Was Raisin' Us to Wuk For Her': Widowed
Planters
and Paternalism in the Old South," in Winfred B. Moore, Kyle S. Sinisi,
and David H. White, eds., Warm
Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the
Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, The Carolina Low Country and the
Atlantic
World (University of South Carolina, 2003). "Broken Reeds and Competent Farmers: Slaveholding Widows in the Southeastern United States, 1790-1860," Journal of Women’s History, Summer 2001 "'The Strongest Ties that Bind Poor Mortals Together': Slaveholding Widows and the Construction of Family in the Southeast, 1790-1860," in Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing With The Powers That Be (University of Missouri Press, 2000) "'One Woman so Dangerous to Public Morals': Gender and Power in the Eaton Affair," Journal of the Early Republic, Summer 1997 |
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Previous
Courses
| Graduate Atlanticizing Early American History (Research Seminar) Atlantic Civilization (Readings) American Women's and Gender History, ca 1600-1850 (Readings) African-American History (Readings; Independent Study) Gender and Slavery (Readings) Travel in Early America (Research) |
Undergraduate AMH 2000/2041: Early American History (also Themes in Early American History; Early American Civilization) AMH 3560: The History of Women in the U.S, 1750-1940 AMH 4571: African-American History, 1600-1877 AMH 4930: Early American Women's History, 1600-1865 HIS 4908: Women and the Civil War (Independent Study) IDS 4920 Liberal Studies Colloquium Euro-Indian Encounters in Early America (Online) Senior Seminar: The United States as a Slaveholding Republic; Slavery in the United States |