Office: TMH-229
Email: am34@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.2142

Angela Murphy specializes in mid-nineteenth century US social history, with particular interest in issues of race and ethnicity and in the social reform movements of the era.

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background :
Ph.D. - University of Houston
M.A. - Texas A&M University
B.A. (English) - Texas A&M University

Recent Research Topics :
(1) Black and white resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
(2) Irish American attitudes towards slavery and the abolition movement in the United States

Previous Publications :
(1) “Daniel O’Connell and the American Eagle in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America’s First Irish Nationalist Movement,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter 2007.“
(2) ‘It Outlaws Me and I Outlaw It’: Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse, New York,” African Americans in New York Life and History, January, 2004

Courses Taught

HIST 1310: History of the United States, 1877 to the Present

HIST 1320: History of the United States to 1877

HIST 3346: Era of Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 5345K: Sectionalism and Slavery in the United States

HIST 5345L:  Public Memory and American History