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

Teaching Interests
U.S. Slavery; Law and Society; U.S. South; Women and Gender; Early America; Global Legal History

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

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