Professor Emeritus, History; PhD, Stanford University
Stanford PhD. Professor of history, Johns Hopkins 1994-2014; University of California, Irvine, 1971-94. Published and taught United States history, especially the social and political history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South, including slavery, free people of color, the Civil War, and related topics. Directed or co-directed 33 completed PhD dissertations; served on committees of 44 additional completed PhD dissertations. Fellowships include awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Huntington Library Times Mirror Foundation Distinguished Research Fellow.
Current Interests: Continued research and publication in United States history.