Overview
I focus on the history of the 19th-century United States, and in particular on the history of the enslavement of African Americans in the South. The expansion of slavery in the United States between the writing of the Constitution in 1787 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 had enormous consequences for all Americans. Indeed, the expansion shaped many elements of the modern world that we now live in, both inside and outside the borders of the United States. I am writing a book about that process: the experience of the slave trades and forced migrations that drove expansion, the systems of labor that emerged, the economic and political and cultural consequences for women and men and children.
In the news
- Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom
- Freedom-seekers inspire doctoral candidate’s work
- Mellon grants $1M to deepen and improve Freedom on the Move
- Freedom on the Move project inspires music performances
- ‘Words as battle axes’: A&S professors appear in Frederick Douglass film
- American slavery focus of Becker Series in History
- Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads
- Oluo offers practical antiracism strategies in MLK Lecture
- Author, journalist Ijeoma Oluo to give annual MLK Lecture
- NEH grants Cornell $750K to develop ‘Freedom’ database
- Center’s grants seed diverse research in the social sciences
- Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula
- Fugitive slave ad database receives grant from Mellon
- Teaching Hard History with Freedom on the Move
- Professors to teach new fall course on impeachment
- Migrations initiative announces cross-campus awards
- Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced
- Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition
- Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves
- Freedom on the Move launches database of fugitives from American slavery
- History of Capitalism initiative takes big-picture approach
- West Campus course fosters dialogue on race, campus climate
- Freedom on the Move project awarded NEH grant
- Baptist, Hutchinson awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
- Slavery and today's policing
- Impact of service learning in Jamaica 'goes both ways'
- Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history
- New interdisciplinary initiative explores capitalism
- History prof. explains aftermath of slavery
- Teaching Slavery to Reluctant Listeners
HIST Courses - Spring 2025
- HIST 2001 : Supervised Reading - Undergraduate
- HIST 3002 : Supervised Research - Undergraduate
- HIST 3430 : History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 8004 : Supervised Reading