University of Rochester

Thomas P. Slaughter

Position: Professor

Field: American

Specialty: Europe and the Americas, c.1500-1850; Early America; American Revolution; Humans and Nature..

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983

Leave: Spring 2011

Journals: Editor Reviews in American History

Contact Info

369B Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627

thomas.slaughter@rochester.edu

phone: 585.273.2799
fax: 585.756.4425

Fields of Interest:

My principal areas of interest are the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, and humans in nature. My current research is for a book tentatively entitled Independence: The Beginnings of the United States, which is an attempt to place the American Revolution within an eighteenth century world historical context.

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  • HIS 100: Gateway: The World of Thomas Jefferson
  • HIS 145: Early America, 1600-1800
  • HIS 333W/433: U.S. Colloquium I
  • HIS 345W/445: Just Wars
  • Intensive Readings on Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America

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