Field-Of-Study: U.S. History

Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, established himself as one of the most insightful American historians writing today with his very first monograph: Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999). Using the slave market as the hub of his study, he

Joshua Brown is the executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is author of Beyond the Lines: The