Dr. W. Sherman Jackson
On leave, Second Semester 2012-13
Department Profile
Title(s):
- 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
Courses Recently Taught:
- 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.