Title
George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies (1986)
Degree
BA, MA City College of New York 1973, 1974; PhD New York University 1982
Specialties
Colonial and revolutionary American history, social history, labor and urban America
Interests
History of New York City
Selected Publications
Chains and Freedom: the Life and Adventure of Peter Wheeler: A Colored Man Yet Living, A Slave in Chains, A Sailor in the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross. (Edited and with an introduction by Graham Russell Hodges, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009)
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Aboliitonist and the Underground Railroad in New York City. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciusko, and Agrippa Hull. A tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and the tragic betrayal that divided a nation. Co-Authored with Gary Nash. (New York: Basic Books, 2008)
Taxi! A Cultural History of the New York City Cabdriver. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004)
Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution(Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996)
"Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Garland Publishing Company, 1994)
Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986)
Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date (Garland Publishing Company)
Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition, etc.
Distinctions
Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, China, 1998; Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History, Peking University, 2006-07
|