Russell R Menard

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• Colonial America
• early American history
• economic and social history of the British Colonies in North America
• economic development of the Lower South in the eighteenth century
• history of slavery
• late nineteenth-century U.S. social history
• origins of plantation slavery in British America
• West Indies

Courses Taught

• Hist 3801 - The People of Early America: 16th to 18th Centuries

Publications

• The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. Menard, Russell, University of North Carolina Press, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1985.
• Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. Menard, Russell, University of North Carolina Press, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1991.
• Slave Demography in the Lowcountry, 1670-1740: From Frontier Society to Plantation Regime. Menard, Russell, 1995.

Awards

• McKnight Research Award