Participant Info
- First Name
- Bonnie
- Last Name
- Laughlin-Schultz
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- blaughlinschul@eiu.edu
- Affiliation
- Eastern Illinois University
- Website URL
- http://www.eiu.edu/include12/global/profile.php?id=blaughlinschul
- Keywords
- Civil War, women, antislavery, reform, United States, women's rights, antebellum, history wars, memory, abolitionism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz is a historian of the 19th century United States who specializes in in American women’s history. Her first book, The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism, was published in 2013 and was named a Kansas Notable Book in 2014. She is now working on a project about 19th century antislavery reformers and their ideas about American history as well as presentations for educators and others about past and contemporary history wars. She teaches the US survey, American women’s history, history of gender & sexuality, Civil War history, and social studies teaching methods, and she serves as coordinator for Social Science Teaching. She also serves as the Preservice Teacher Liaison to the Illinois Civics Hub and is a consultant on the Guardians of American Democracy Constitutional Democracy as Content and Practice micro-credentialing course for K-12 teachers.
- Recent Publications
- “Having It All: Lucy Stone, Motherhood, and the Woman’s Rights Movement, 1851-1893,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 25 (March 2021)
- Is Justice Blind? An Inquiry Design Model Unit for High School Civics, Illinois Civics Hub, May 2020
- “Confronting the Disconnect in Student Understanding of the Causes of the Civil War,” in Teaching the Causes of the American Civil War, Mike Karpyn et al. (Peter Lang, 2020)
- We Shouldn’t Talk about Voting without Talking about Voter Suppression: Complicating the Ideal of One Person, One Vote, Illinois Civics Hub, February 2020
- Rethinking the ‘Both Sides’ Reflex, Illinois Civics Hub, January 28, 2020
- The Fate of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans, Illinois Civics Hub (2019)
- “Women’s Rights and Gender Ideology, 1848-1890,” The Routledge History of Nineteenth Century America, Jonathan Wells (Routledge, 2018)
- “‘How John Brown Smashed the Whisky Barrel’: John Brown’s Children in Southern California and Memory of the American Civil War,” California History 92 (Fall 2015), 16-36
- The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism (Cornell University Press, 2013)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @laughschultz
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Pedagogy, Women
