Harry Watson

Professor and Director of the  Center for the Study of the American South Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1976

Research Interests

Watson's specialties are the antebellum South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He serves as Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South and co-editor of its journal, Southern Cultures. His most recent book is Andrew Jackson Versus Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (1998). His most recent article is "'The Common Rights of Mankind:' Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republican South," The Journal of American History 83 (June 1996), 13-43.

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Graduate Students Advised by Harry Watson

• Kristin Deiss
  
• Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle
• Joshua Lynn
  
• Patrick O'Neil
• Darin Waters
• Timothy Williams

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 127 -- United States History to 1865
• HIST 128 -- United States History since 1865
• HIST 366 -- North Carolina History Before 1865
• HIST 367 -- North Carolina History Since 1865
• HIST 563 -- Jacksonian America, 1815-1848
• HIST 586 -- The Old South
• HIST 835 -- Readings in the Antebellum South

Contact

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of History

CB #3195, Hamilton Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

Phone: (919) 962-5436