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 Spring 2014 semester, I will be teaching HIST 318, “Digital History Methods”; and HIST 587, a graduate research seminar focusing on cultural history.

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. It was awarded the 2014 Merle Curti Award for best book in American intellectual history, and a James H. Broussard First Book Prize from SHEAR.

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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