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 Southern and Legal History
HIST 496     Senior Thesis
HIST 793     Graduate Readings in Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World