Lois Horton
Professor
Lois E. Horton received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1977. Her coauthored books (with James Oliver Horton) include: Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory; Slavery and the Making of America; Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America; In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860; Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North; and the coedited A History of the African American People. Hard Road to Freedom was selected as a Choice Best Academic Book, and In Hope of Liberty received the Oxford University Press nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Her articles on the issues of American identity; race, class, and gender; and 19th Century African American struggles for freedom and equality have been published in the U.S. and Europe. She has been a guest professor in Munich and Hawaii and held a research fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. She received the 1998 Annual Scholarly Recognition Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. She has also held the Fulbright Distinguished John Adams Chair in American History at the University of Amsterdam in the fall of 2003.
Research Interests
African American, 19th Century US, Social, Urban
Office Hours (Fall 2008)
On leave
Contact
Email: lhorton@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.3901