W. Sherman Jackson

Contact

• jacksows@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 272 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5137
• Office hours: MWF 8:30-9:00 am

Titles

• Associate Professor of History
• Affiliate of the Black World Studies Program

Education

• PhD 1969, Ohio State University
• MA, North Carolina Central University
• BA, Southern University

Teaching and Research Interests

• American Constitutional history and law
• Presidential studies
• Civil War and Reconstruction

Recently taught courses

• HST 111-112 Survey of U.S. History
• BWS/HST 365 Civil War and Reconstruction Era
• HST 387 U.S. Constitution to 1865
• HST 388 U.S. Constitution since 1865

Selected Publications

• “Losing a Constitutional Monopoly: Black Americans and the Fourteenth Amendment since 1945,” Modern America Examined: A Reader, ed. Jerry Baydo, National Social Science Press, 2003
• Reconstruction: The Lost Promise , American Education Publishers, 1970

Work in Progress

Dr. Jackson is currently working on a project entitled Supreme Court and Judicial Emasculation, 1780-1900. He has served on the advisory committee for the National Underground Railroad Museum and as history consultant to the National Park Service.