Dr. Solomon K. Smith

Associate Professor of History (2010).

B.A. in History, College of William and Mary, 1998; M.A. in History, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000; Ph.D. in History, University of Georgia, 2009.

Teaching and Research Interests:  American Colonial, First Contact, American Revolution, Piracy during the Golden Age, Atlantic History.

Upper-Level Courses:

• HIST 4431 Invasions of the Americas: Contact, Encounter, & Colonization
• HIST 4432 Early America 1670-1763
• HIST 5133 Revolutionary America 1763-1790
• HIST 5234 Pirates in the Americas, 1490-1750
• HIST 3030 The Great War for Empire: A Global History of the Seven Year’s War

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Contact Information: 

Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054

Office: #2002, Interdisciplinary Academic Building
Tel.: 912-478-5742
Email: sksmith@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: 912-478-0377

Selected Publications: 

• “Firearms Manufacturing, Gun Use, and the Emergence of Gun Culture in Early North America,” 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, 34 (Autumn 2014).
• “Pounding Dice into Musket Balls: Using Wargames to teach the American Revolution,” The History Teacher. Vol. 46, No. 4 (August 2014): 561-576.
• “‘Better to not look at a place, then send an unsupported man there as agent: Chaplain Thomas Callahan and the Arrival of the Freedman’s Bureau in Shreveport,” North Louisiana History 36:4 (Fall 2005): 154-167.
• “The Freedman’s Bureau in Shreveport: The Struggle for Control of the Red River District,” Louisiana History 41:4 (Fall 2000): 435-465.

Professional Activities, Honors, and Awards:

• Vice President for the Board of Directors of the Mulberry Grove Plantation Foundation 2013-2017. Recent interview by Atlanta Journal Constitution.
• Summer Award for Faculty Development, Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Southern University, 2014.
• Overdyke Article Prize, 2005, for “‘Better to not look at a place, then send an unsupported man there as agent: Chaplain Thomas Callahan and the Arrival of the Freedman’s Bureau in Shreveport,” North Louisiana History 36:4 (Fall 2005): 154-167.
• President’s Memorial Award, Spring 2001, Publication Committee, Louisiana Historical Association, for “The Freedman’s Bureau in Shreveport: The Struggle for Control of the Red River District,” Louisiana History 41:4 (Fall 2000): 435-465.

Current Research:

• Book Manuscript: ‘A Profound Secret in the Breast of a Very Few’: Industrial Ventures in the Chesapeake Region, 1720-1820.

Last updated: 3/30/2022