My current research entails a study of the life and times of Azeline Hearne, an illiterate freedwoman who immediately after the Civil War managed to test the limits to achieving racial justice in Robertson County, Texas. She cohabited with her master during slavery and shortly after emancipation she inherited his entire estate, which included one of the most profitable cotton plantations in East Texas. To read the Introduction to my book in progress about her life that I have tentatively titled Counterfeit Justice: A Texas Freedwoman's Story, click here.

To read the introductory chapter to my book about Texas politics during the Civil War era,


click here .
For further information regarding my reseach interests, see my résumé.

To view a collection of Texas ballots from the Reconstruction period, click here.

My Massachusetts dataset is available from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Click here on ICPSR Study No: 8242 cited as "ELECTORAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, 1848-1876: MASSACHUSETTS (Computer file)." The collection contains electoral and demographic data for Massachusetts counties and cities during 1848-1876. The data for this collection were compiled to study electoral changes in the state's politics during the Civil War period and to link the changes to socioeconomic determinants of support for the Republican and Democratic parties. The data include election returns, data from Massachusetts state censuses, Massachusetts General Court reports, data from the Archives of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and data from the Massachusetts Bureau of State of Labor. There are 367 cases and 31 records per case with a logical record length of 80.

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