College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Richard L. Hume

Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 313 – 509-335-4931
rhume@wsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1969

Academic & Professional Interests

Hume's specialty is Civil War and the Reconstruction Era; he also teaches the United States and the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras.

Publications

Hume's articles appear in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Hume co-edited, with F.N. Boney (University of Georgia) and Rafia Zafar (University of Michigan), God Made Man, Man Made Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh (Mercer University Press, 1990). He is currently working, with departmental colleague Professor Jerry B. Gough, on a book manuscript to be titled Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The "Black and Tan" Conventions and the Foundations of Radical Reconstruction.

Photo: Richard L. Hume

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