Martha S. Jones
American historian and legal scholar
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Martha S. Jones's Degrees
- PhD History Columbia University
- Doctorate Law Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martha S. Jones is an American historian and legal scholar. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She studies the legal and cultural history of the United States, with a particular focus on how Black Americans have shaped the history of American democracy. She has published books on the voting rights of African American women, the debates about women's rights among Black Americans in the early United States, and the development of birthright citizenship in the United States as promoted by African Americans in Baltimore before the Civil War.
Martha S. Jones's Published Works
Published Works
- Birthright Citizens (2018) (97)
- All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (2007) (54)
- All Bound Up Together (2007) (49)
- Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018) (39)
- Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (2015) (29)
- Time, Space, and Jurisdiction in Atlantic World Slavery: The Volunbrun Household in Gradual Emancipation New York (2011) (22)
- Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (2012) (18)
- Pass·ed Performances: An introduction (2005) (8)
- Hughes v. Jackson: Race and Rights beyond Dred Scott (2013) (4)
- The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole De Saint-Domingue : Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City (2013) (4)
- Emancipation’s Encounters: The Meaning of Freedom from the Pages of Civil War Sketchbooks (2013) (2)
- Mining Our Collective Memory (2004) (2)
- Perspectives on Teaching Women's History: Views from the Classroom, the Library, and the Internet (2004) (2)
- Introduction: Toward an intellectual history of black women (2015) (2)
- Historians’ Forum: The Emancipation Proclamation (2013) (1)
- "Make us a power": African American methodists debate the "Woman question," 1870-1900 (2006) (1)
- Make Us a Power (2007) (1)
- Overthrowing the ‘Monopoly of the Pulpit’: Race and the Rights of Churchwomen in Nineteenth Century America. (2010) (1)
- History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150 (2013) (1)
- Who Here Is A Negro (2014) (0)
- A Simplified Program for Detecting Item Bias and Its Application to a Spatial Visualization Test. (1984) (0)
- Being a Native, and Free Born (2018) (0)
- Female Influence Is Powerful (2007) (0)
- Scott E. Casper. Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. New York: Hill and Wang. 2008. Pp. 286. $25.00 (2009) (0)
- The Future of Reconstruction Studies (2017) (0)
- Something Very Novel and Strange (2007) (0)
- In the Shadow of "Dred Scott": St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America by Kelly M. Kennington, and: Before "Dred Scott": Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857 by Anne Twitty (review) (2018) (0)
- Make Us a Power: African-American Methodists Debate the Rights of Women, 1870-1900 (2006) (0)
- Histories, fictions, and black womanhood bodies: Race and gender in twenty-first-century politics (2015) (0)
- Books We Recommend (2016) (0)
- Right Is of No Sex (2007) (0)
- Too Much Useless Male Timber (2007) (0)
- Confronting Dred Scott (2018) (0)
- What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. By Ariela J. Gross (2010) (0)
- Not a Woman's Rights Convention (2007) (0)
- Lea VanderVelde, Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scot , New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 320. $29.95 cloth (ISBN: 9780199927296). (2015) (0)
- Leave of Court: African American Claims - Making in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sandford (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2012) (0)
- Sailor and Citizen: Being Black and Free on Board US Ships before the Civil War (2015) (0)
- Guy-Sheftall’s edited collection Words of Fire: An Anthology of African- American Feminist Thought (New York, 1995) and Ann Allen Shockley’s Afro-American Women Writers, 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide (2016) (0)
- First the Streets, Then the Archives (2016) (0)
- Forum on Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions” (2023) (0)
- Overthrowing the "monopoly of the pulpit": Race and the rights of Church women in the nineteenth-century United States (2010) (0)
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