Dr. W. Sherman Jackson
Title:
Professor Emeritus of History
Education:
PhD 1969, Ohio State University
MA, North Carolina Central University
BA, Southern University
Teaching and Research Interests:
- American Constitutional history and law
- Presidential studies
- Civil War and Reconstruction
Selected Publications:
- “Losing a Constitutional Monopoly: Black Americans and the Fourteenth Amendment since 1945,” Modern America Examined: A Reader, ed. Jerry Baydo, National Social Science Press, 2003
- Reconstruction: The Lost Promise , American Education Publishers, 1970
Work in Progress:
Dr. Jackson is currently working on a project entitled Supreme Court and Judicial Emasculation, 1780-1900. He has served on the advisory committee for the National Underground Railroad Museum and as history consultant to the National Park Service.