Major Problems in Atlantic History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American Hsitory)
Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000. Rothman teaches courses on the history of the Atlantic World, slavery and abolition, and the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. His first book, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, was published by Harvard University Press in 2005. He is currently working on a study of New Orleans in the 19th century. Rothman lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Marian and their dog Mel.