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: 12/14/2023
