Dr. Holly Brewer
assistant professor of history
(919) 513-3513
hbrewer@social.chass.ncsu.edu
U.S. Colonial history. Children and the law. Early American history; pre-19th century crime and punishment.

Civil Rights

Dr. Walter A. Jackson
associate professor of history
(919) 513-2213
walter_jackson@ncsu.edu
Civil rights history; race relations; U.S. intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement. Book on social engineer Gunnar Myrdal nominated for Pulitzer and Bancroft awards.

Civil War

Dr. William C. Harris
professor of history
(919) 513-2215
william_harris@ncsu.edu
Civil War; Abraham Lincoln and the South. Lincoln as President. North Carolina during the Civil War. Second place honors, 1998 Lincoln Prize competition. Edited 1999 book, In the Country of the Enemy, the Civil War reports of a Massachusetts corporal.

Dr. John David Smith
Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of history;
director, public history program
(919) 515-3715
smith_jd@unity.ncsu.edu
Slavery, Civil War and Southern history. Author of Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro.

Constitutional History

Dr. Stephen Middleton
associate professor of history
(919) 513-2220
stephen_middleton@ncsu.edu
U.S. Constitutional and legal history.

Cowboys/Frontiers/Latin American

On the Web
Check out http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/~slatta to visit Dr. Richard Slatta's Lazy S Ranch. There you can explore the history of cowboys, bandits, and frontier life in North and South America.

Dr. Richard W. Slatta
professor of history
(919) 513-2229
slatta@ncsu.edu
social.chass.ncsu.edu/~slatta
Cowboys; frontiers; Latin American history. Internationally known expert on cowboy and ranch history for North and South America. Author of award-winning The Cowboy Encyclopedia. Educational computing for historical research.

Labor/Labor Unions

Dr. David A. Zonderman
associate professor of history
(919) 513-2222
zonderman@social.chass.ncus.edu
American labor history, labor reform, workers' response to technological change. Also, trade unionism and industrial relations in the contemporary workplace.

Race Relations

Dr. Gail O'Brien
professor of history, associate dean of College
of Humanities and Social Sciences
(919) 513-2231, (919) 515-2467
gobrien@social.chass.ncsu.edu
World War II and post World War II years with focus on racial violence, African-Americans, and the criminal justice system.

Technology

Dr. Ross Bassett
assistant professor of history
(919) 513-2230
ross_bassett@ncsu.edu
History of technology; history of semiconductor technology.

Westward Movement

Dr. James E. Crisp
associate professor and assistant dept. head of history
(919) 513-2236
james_crisp@ncsu.edu
www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/history/crisp.html
American West, Antebellum South, Texas Revolution and Texas Republic. Published articles on Davy Crockett, Anglo-Mexican relations and Gen. Sam Houston in Texas Monthly, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and The Alamo Journal.