Expertise
American Political Culture
Research Interests
The United States in the 1800s, including politics, women's history, the Civil War, and the antislavery movement.
Biosketch
Michael Pierson is the author of the books Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics, Mutiny at Ft Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans, and Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition, as well as numerous articles.