Samantha Yost, West Virginia University undergraduate, performs directed legal research in the Claiborne County, Mississippi, courthouse. 

Teaching Interests
U.S. Slavery; Southern History; Women and Gender; Law and Society; Early American History

Vanderbilt University
HIST 2855:  U.S. Women's and Gender History to 1865 
HIST 2860:  U.S. Women's and Gender History since 1865 
HIST 1667:  Famous American Trials  
HIST 8055:  Methods in Legal History (Graduate)
HIST 4960:  Capstone: Race and Law
HIST 2662:  U.S. Slavery
HIST 6400:  Readings in American History to the Civil War (Graduate)
Upcoming Courses:
HIST 1111:  Law and Order in American History
HIST 1400:  U.S. History, 1776-1877
HIST 2239:  Sex and the Citizen: Women and the Law in the United States
HIST 4960:  Capstone: Citizenship

West Virginia University 
HIST 152     Growth of the American Nation to 1865
HIST 152H  Honors: Growth of the American Nation to 1865
HIST 445     History of American Women
HIST 468     The Old South 
HIST 484     Historical Research Capstone:  Southern Women’s History
HIST 484     Historical Research Capstone:  American Slavery
HIST 495     Directed Undergraduate Research in Legal History
HIST 495     Directed Undergraduate Research in Southern History
HIST 496     Senior Thesis
HIST 793     Graduate Readings in Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World