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FACULTY & STAFF

Dr. Thomas F. Jackson

Contact Information

Email: tfjackso@uncg.edu
Office: 2141 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-4040

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994
M.A., Stanford University, 1987
B.A., Georgetown University, 1981

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006-
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2000-2006
Assistant Professor, Smith College, 1994-97
Instructor, Stanford University, 1990
Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 1984, 1985, 1987

Courses Taught

HIS 212: Survey of U.S. History since 1865
HIS 332: Civil Rights and Black Freedom, 1940-1980 - Southern and national civil rights politics in light of local and human rights dimensions of the wider black freedom movement. Special attention to leadership, economics, local movements, and white resistance.
HIS 340: The United States Since World War II - Selected social, political, and international trends and events: Cold War and Vietnam; conservatism from McCarthy to Reagan; black freedom, radicalism and the Great Society; feminism; mass immigration and multicultural America.
HIS 511A: Seminar in Research and Writing - "Reverberations of the Rights Revolution, 1941-1981"
HIS 524: Twentieth Century U.S. History: Selected Topics - "Civil Rights: Social Struggle, Politics and Policies, 1940-1980"
HIS 702: Colloquium in American History since 1865 - Issues of historical interpretation from Reconstruction to the present.
HIS 703: Seminar in American History - Research and writing on selected topics in American history.
HIS 709: Introductory Research Seminar - "Public Culture and American Democracy" - Will focus on methods, sources, and writing; research paper based on primary and contextualized in secondary sources.

Publications

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). Winner of the 2007 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award of the Organization of American Historians.

Radio and Television

"The Forgotten Martin Luther King," on KPFK and Pacifica Radio, The Scholars’ Circle and The Insighters, January 19, 2014. Link: http://www.armoudian.com/log/scholars-circle/the-scholars-circle-insighters-radio-jan-19th-2014/. Listeners should start at 1730/3480 count.
"Freedom Now! Militancy, Media, and Memory in the Civil Rights Revolution of 1963" on Channel 10 Charlottesville talk, December 10, 2013. Part of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship series. Video at http://vimeo.com/87111871.