Education
Ph.D., History, Mississippi State University
M.A., History, Middle Tennessee State University
B.A., History, Cumberland University
Faculty Appointments
Associate professor, Cumberland University (since 2008)
Assistant professor, Southern New Hampshire University
Andrew Jackson, Southerner (forthcoming)
Co-editor, Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek (2013)
Editor, Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives (2008)
Old Hickory’s Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson (2007)
“The Shape of Democracy: Jacksonian History and Historians,” The Age of Andrew Jackson, ed. Brian D. McKnight and James S. Humphreys (2011)
“The Failure of a Moderate Southern Voice: Andrew Jackson Donelson’s Role as Editor of the Washington Union, 1851-1852,” in Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism, ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris, Jr. (2008)
“Slavery, Plantation Life, and Debt in Antebellum Tennessee and Mississippi: The Example of Andrew Jackson Donelson,” West Tennessee Historical Society Papers (2007)
“‘The High Minded Honourable Man’: Honor, Kinship, and Conflict in the Life of Andrew Jackson Donelson,” Journal of the Early Republic (2007)
“‘I Shall Persevere in the Cause of Truth’: Andrew Jackson Donelson and the Election of 1856,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly (2003)
Teaching Areas
Jacksonian America
Civil War America
Historical Methods
American Presidency
American Conspiracy Theories
African American history
Academic Integrity
