Greetings!

My name is W. Caleb McDaniel. I’m an assistant professor of history at Rice University and a scholar of the nineteenth-century United States. I am also a Board Member and social media director for Historians Against Slavery.

On this site you can find my CV and publications, occasional posts on my current research and teaching, and some geeky computer hacks.

Contact

Feel free to email me at or send me snail mail at my department. I also tweet, pin, tumble, git, and LibraryThing.

In the Fall 2013 semester, I will be teaching FWIS 173, a freshman writing seminar on “Legendary Americans,” and HIST 246, “The American Civil War Era,” with Fay Yarbrough. Beginning November 11, I will be in residence for a month at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University.

Book

My first book, The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform, was published by LSU Press in May 2013.

You can read the introduction online for free, purchase the book from Amazon, or download from Project Muse.

You can also listen to an interview about the book on the New Books in American Studies podcast. Links to additional reviews and coverage are available on my Pinboard page.

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