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First Name
Bonnie
Last Name
Laughlin-Schultz
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
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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 Abolitionismwas 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
Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, Pedagogy, Women