Charles B. Dew Ephraim Williams Professor of American History B.A. (1958) Williams College Ph.D. (1964) The Johns Hopkins University

Contact
NAB Room 257
Phone: 413.597.2597
Charles.B.Dew@williams.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:45 pm and by appointment


Courses Taught
HIST 164: Slavery in the American South
HIST 364: History of the Old South
HIST 365: History of the New South
HIST 370: Studies in American Social Change
HIST 456: Civil War and Reconstruction


Selected Publications

Books:
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001).  Recipient of the 2001 Fletcher Pratt Award, given by the Civil War Round Table of New York for the best non-fiction book on the American Civil War published in 2001.
Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994). A recipient of the 1995 Elliott Rudwick Prize, chosen as the Finalist for the 1995 Lincoln Prize, and selected as a Notable Book of the Year for 1994 by the The New York Times Book Review. A Norton paperback edition, 1995.
Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966; revised edition, forthcoming, Library of Virginia, 1998). A  Recipient of a 1967 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History A Recipient of the 1966 Fletcher Pratt Award, given by the Civil War Round Table of New York.

Articles and Essays:
"Industrial Slavery, in Stanley L. Engerman and Seymour Drescher, eds., Encyclopedia of Slavery" (New York: Garland Publishing, forthcoming, 1997).
"Slavery and Technology in the Antebellum Southern Iron Industry: The Case of Buffalo Forge, in Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt, eds., Science and Medicine in the Old South" (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 107-126.
"The Slavery Experience, in Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham" (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), 120-161.
"Sam Williams, Forgeman: The Life of an Industrial Slave in the Old South, in James M. McPherson and J. Morgan Kousser eds., Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 199-239.

Research Interests
Ante-Bellum U.S. History; Slavery in the U.S.; U.S. South

Theses Advised
David Gise (2001) Grant and Sherman
Sergio Espinosa (2002) The Sherman Reservation: Land for the Freedmen
Stokley Weinberg (2002) The Massachusetts 54th Regiment

 

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