James Humphreys

Education

• Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2005
• M.A., North Carolina State University, 1989
• B.S., Social Science, Campbell University, 1985

Publications

• "William Archibald Dunning: Flawd Colossus of American Letters." The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction. ed. John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2013.
• Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson. Ed., Brian D. McKnight and James S. Humphreys. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2011.
• “The Worst Tortures of the Middle Ages”: Allied Protest against British and American Bombing of Germany during World War II. Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 18 (April 2010): 46-63.
• Francis Butler Simkins: A Life. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.

Courses Taught

• World Civilizations I and II
• US History to 1877
• US History Since 1877
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• Craft, Methods, and Scope of History
• Development of Historical Thinking
• Readings in United States History
• The Old South
• The New South
• Jacksonian Democracy and Sectional Conflict
• Southern Politics and Culture
• Teaching History
• History of Modern Christian Thought

Research Interests

• African-American History;
• Early American History;
• Government;
• Modern European History;
• Southern US History