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  • Joshua D. Rothman
    Associate Professor
    Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2000

    jrothman@tenhoor.as.ua.edu

    Fall 2008 Office Hours: Wed. 3-4:30 p.m.

    Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Nineteenth Century America
  • Southern History
  • Race and Slavery
  • Social and Cultural History


    • Courses Taught:

  • American South to 1865
  • American South, 1865-1929
  • American Civilization to 1865
  • Slavery in American Popular Culture, 1845-Present
  • Reform Movements in Antebellum America
  • The Nineteenth Century American West
  • Proseminar and Seminar on Southern History, 1776-1865 (Graduate)
  • Literature of American History to 1865 (Graduate)
  • Proseminar in United States History to 1877 (Graduate)


    • Recent Publications:

  • "Antebellum Reform Movements, A Norton Casebook in History" (W.W. Norton, forthcoming)
  • "'The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of the Market Revolution," Journal of American History, forthcoming, December 2008.
  • Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
  • "Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't," in Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals, edited by Juliet A. Williams and Paul Apostolidis (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), pp. 101-133.
  • "'Notorious in the Neighborhood': An Interracial Family in Early National and Antebellum Virginia," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, no. 1 (February 2001), pp. 73-114.
  • "James Callender and Social Knowledge of Interracial Sex in Antebellum Virginia," in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, edited by Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), pp. 87-113.

    • Current Project:

  • "Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America."  University of Georgia Press, forthcoming.

    My current project is a study of America's southwestern frontier during the economic boom of the 1820s and 1830s known as the "flush times." I am closely examining a series of gambling riots and slave insurrection scares, using them a lens through which to understand the social, cultural, and political implications of expansion and speculative capitalism in the antebellum United States. This project has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Office for Sponsored Programs at the University of Alabama, the Deep South Regional Humanities Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Libraries, and a joint award from the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    • Hobbies:

  • Primitive guitar playing (don't even ask whether I can sing-it isn't pretty)
  • Rooting for the Mets (usually equally unpretty)
  • Trying to keep the weeds out of my garden (with mixed success)
  • Wishing I could emulate the cushy lifestyle of my cat
  • Venturing to understand how a toddler works



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