History Department

Thomas Slaughter

Thomas Slaughter

Professor

369B Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
tslaught@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.273.2799
fax: 585.756.4425

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983

Courses Offered
(subject to change)

Spring 2009
HIS 345W/445: Just Wars

Fall 2009
HIS 145: Early America, 1600-1800
HIS 333W/433: U.S. Colloquium I

Spring 2010
On Leave

Fields of Interest
Europe and the Americas, c.1500-1850; Early America; American Revolution; Humans and Nature.

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.

Representative Publications:

  • The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition (2008).
  • Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness (2002).
  • Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Related Writings (2001).
  • The Natures of John and William Bartram (1996).
  • Bloody Dawn: Race and Violence in the Antebellum North (1996).
  • William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings (edited, 1996).
  • The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986).