Franklin Sammons

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History, 2021
• M.A. University of Georgia, History, 2011
• B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, American Studies, 2009

Research

• 18th and 19th Century North America
• Borderlands and Indigenous History, Legal History, Political Economy.

Current Research

I am revising my book manuscript entitled Yazoo’s Settlement: Finance, Law, and Dispossession in Early America. The book revisits one of the most notorious episodes in the early republic — the Yazoo land sales — to examine how finance and law operated as technologies of settler colonialism that helped transform the Native Southeast into the Cotton Kingdom prior to the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Teaching

• History of North America
• U.S. History
• Native American History
• History of Capitalism
• 18th and 19th Century North America
• Borderlands and Indigenous History, Legal History, Political Economy

Selected Publications

• 2012 With Sarah Buonacore, “Adventures on Wall Street: Finance and Industry in American Dime Novels,” Financial History: The Magazine of the Museum of American Finance(Fall 2012)

• 2011 “Confederate Veteran Organizations,” in John Inscoe, ed., The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011)

Peer-Reviewed

• 2020 “The Fruit of the Yazoo Compromise: Mississippi Stock and the Panic of 1819,” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter 2020): 671-676.

• 2021Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic, by Ariel Ron, Business History Review, Vol. 95, No.2 (2021): 346-348

• 2021 Borderland Narratives: Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces,edited by Andrew K. Frank and Glenn Crothers, The History Teacher (Forthcoming)

• 2019 Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty, by William Davenport Mercer, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Summer 2019)

• 2016 The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, by Calvin Schermerhorn, Ohio Valley History, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall 2016).