For my thirty years at UAB (since 1978) I have specialized in United States History--Middle Period (1815-1877). My research focuses on American history and in particular Southern history. I have published one book: Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1985, reprint edition 2001). Grants from the American Association for State and Local History and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, have supported my research.
Education:Ph.D., Emory University, August, 1976
M.A, Emory University, June, 1975
B.A., Agnes Scott College, June, 1972, with high honors
Research Interests: Major Research in Progress: "Free Churches": Race Relations in Religious Reconstruction in Alabama (book manuscript)
Recent Courses:Introductory undergraduate level: American History from Prehistory to the Present (Reinhardt)
The United States: Colony to Nation to 1815 (UAB)
Twentieth Century United States (UAB)
American History to 1877 (Emory, UAB)
United States Since 1865 (NMU)
United States Since 1877 (UAB)
Southern Women: Image and Reality (UAB)
American Civilization (Emory)
Historian's Craft (UAB)
Graduate level: Historical Research and Writing (UAB)
Seminar in Southern History (Topic: Reconstruction) (UAB)
Southern Urban History (USA)
Historians and Manuscripts: An Introduction to Archives and Historical Editing (UAB, team taught with Marvin Y. Whiting)
Historical Editing: An Introduction (UAB)
Seminar in the Antebellum South (UAB)
Seminar in the Jackson Period (UAB)
Seminar in Nineteenth Century American History (Topic: Sectionalism and Reform, 1815-1860) (NMU)
