Dr. Bennett Parten

Assistant Professor of History (2022)

University of Georgia, B.A. (2015);

Clemson University, M.A.(2017); Yale University, Ph.D. (2022)

Teaching and Research Interests:
19 th Century U.S., the Politics of Slavery, Abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction

Upper Division Courses:
Hist 3130: African-American History to 1865
Hist 5134: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Hist 5137: The Antebellum South

Contact Information:
Department of History
Georgia Southern University, Armstrong
11935 Abercorn St.
Savannah, Ga
31419-1997
Office: Hawes 108C
Email: bparten@georgiasouthern.edu

Selected Publications:

“Cyrena Stone’s Civil War: The “Miss Abby Diary” and the Collapse of the Confederate Homefront” American Nineteenth Century History (June, 2024)   
“The Refugee Crisis of Sherman’s March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands,” Civil War History (2024) Vol. 70. No. 1.  
“The Science of Human Rights: American Abolitionism and the Language of Human Rights,” Slavery & Abolition (2023), Vol. 44, No. 2. 
“Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and Georgia’s Refugee Slaves,” Georgia
Historical Quarterly, Vol. CI, No. 2 (2017) 115-146.
“Blow Ye Trumpet, Blow: The Idea of Jubilee in Slavery and Freedom,” Journal of the Civil
War Era, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sept. 2020), 298-318.

Current Research:
Book Manuscript
“Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the History of Emancipation”

Articles
“The Science of Human Rights: Human Rights and American Abolitionism”

Last updated: 8/5/2024