The course will introduce students to the theory and practice of history. It will use the Underground Railroad and its connections to enslavement and abolition as the vehicle for teaching skills in historical thinking, research, and writing. The Underground Railroad was a loose network of individuals...
John R. Legg is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His research focus includes Indigenous history, the United States and Canada, and the Civil War era. His dissertation, "In Our Own Rightful Territory": Dakota Mobility, Diplomacy, and Belonging in Mni Sota M...
Jane Hooper received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2010. She teaches courses in global and Indian Ocean history, as well as the history of Africa and the slave trade. Her first book, Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800, was published in 2017 by Ohio University...
Slavery and its abolition was one of the major issues in the United States leading up to the Civil War. Southerners saw slavery as a positive good for themselves and for the enslaved people they controlled. Abolitionists saw slavery as a blemish on the nation and were committed to bring it to an end....
Dr. Charles Chavis, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and History at George Mason University, has published a new book titled, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State, with Johns Hopkins University Press. From the publisher’s website:...
