Courses:
The Constitution in Historical Perspective
Politics, Society, and Cultures in 18th Century America
Survey of American Civilization to the Civil War
The Era of Independence in the Americas (US; Haiti; Mexico)

Education:
A.B. Stanford 1969
J. D. University of Michigan 1972
Ph. D. Columbia 1988

Teaching Specialties:

• American colonial and revolutionary history
• American legal and constitutional history

Herbert Sloan, professor (Barnard College), specializes in early American history. He received his B.A. from Stanford in 1969 and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1988. His published works include Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (1995) and “The Earth Belongs to the Living,” in Peter S. Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (1993). He is presently working on a book to be entitled The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph.