![]() I have retired from teaching, but I still enjoy reading, researching, and writing history, which I do in Rhode Island, the beautiful Ocean State. I also served terms as executive director of the University’s Center for the Humanities and as chair of its history department. And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in Ties That Bound, these women, as the day to day managers of their households, dealt with the realities of a. ![]() in history is from the University of Maryland, College Park, and I currently hold the position of professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island, where for twenty years I taught courses on United States history and on slavery. Chicago University of Chicago Press 2017. Marie Jenkins Schwartz Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves. I am proud to have received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other recognition, including awards from the Southern Association for Women Historians, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, and the Organization of American Historians. Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves. ![]() ![]() As a writer and historian, I focus on United States history, especially stories about women, children, slavery, race, and medicine. ![]()
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