She is currently writing a book on the history of Savannah, Georgia, during the Civil War era, entitled Saving Savannah: Civil Wars in the Georgia Lowcountry, 1854-1872 (forthcoming, Alfred A. Jones’ major publications include a college textbook, Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the American People, coauthored with Peter Wood, Elaine Tyler May, Tim Borstelmann, and Vicki Ruiz (2003, 2004, 2005) a memoir, Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001) a survey of American labor history, A Social History of the Laboring Classes from Colonial Times to the Present (1999) and several monographs, including American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998) The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1992) Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985) and Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (1980). She was chair of the Brandeis history department from 1996 to 2002. in history from the University of Wisconsin. in American Studies from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. She specializes in the history of African Americans, labor, women, family and the American South. Truman Professor of American History at Brandeis University.
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