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Department of History

Dr. Loren Schweninger
Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor

Contact Information

Email: llschwen@uncg.edu
Office: 2105 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-3654

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972
M.A., University of Colorado, 1966
B.A., University of Colorado, 1962

Teaching Experience

Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1986-
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1978-86
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1973-78
Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1971-73
Instructor, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970-71

Research Interests

My research interests include Race and Slavery in the United States, African American History, the Nineteeth Century South, and Documentary History. For the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, launched in 1991, see http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions).

Courses Taught

• HIS 301: Race and Slavery in America - Examination of the black experience from ancient to modern times, including pre-colonial Africa, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in the Americas with special emphasis on the United States before 1865.
• HIS 502: African American History: Selected Topics - Examination of selected topics in black history including African beginnings, slavery, racial attitudes, and civil rights.
• HIS 511A: Southern Slavery and the Law (Seminar in Historical Research and Writing) - Locating and using historical source materials, written and oral, published and unpublished.
• HIS 703: Seminar in American History - Research and writing on selected topics in American history.
• HIS 713: African Americans After Slavery - African American history during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the era of Jim Crow, the civil rights and post-civil rights eras.

Recent Publications

Ed. and intro. Marguerite Howell and Nicole Mazgaj, asst. eds. The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Volume 2 Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008). With John Hope Franklin, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Ed. and intro., The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Volume 1 Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001). With John Hope Franklin, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; Paperback Edition, 2000). Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 (Urbana: Illinois Press, 1990; Paperback Edition, 1997).

Awards and Honors

• Research Grants for Race and Slavery Petitions Project: National Historical Publications and Records Commission [NHPRC], 1991-2005; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, 1997-2005; National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH], 1997-2009
• Lincoln Prize, with John Hope Franklin, for Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, 2000
• Research Excellence Award, UNCG, 2002
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2007

Links of Interest

Race and Slavery Petitions Project

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