Home page for Dr. Cheryll Ann Cody
In 1974 Cheryll Ann Cody received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in History and English from the University of Minnesota She continued her studies there, completing her Master of Arts degree in American History in 1977. In 1982 she earned a Ph.D. in American History with supporting fields in Geography and Anthropology, also at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in Southern history with an interest in family and demography, her dissertation “Slave Demography and Family Formation: A Community Study of the Ball Family Plantations, 1710 – 1896,” has provided the basis for several of her refereed articles. In 1996-1997 she returned to graduate school completing an additional nine semester hours in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her publications include “There was No Absalom on the Ball Plantations: Slave Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, 1720 – 1833, ” which originally appeared in the American Historical Review and has been reprinted several times, most recently in Slavery: A Reader, edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin. She also published “Naming, Kinship, and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833, “ in The William and Mary Quarterly, In addition she has published essays in Ethnohistory and Southern Studies and contributed her work to More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Barry Gaspar and Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South edited by Larry Hudson.
A three time recipient of an NEH Travel to Collections Grant, Dr. Cody has also received funding for her research from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the American Historical Association’s Albert Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere. She has presented research papers and served as commentator at both national and international meetings including the I.U.S.S.P. Conference on the Peopling of the Americans in Veracruz, Mexico and the XVII International Congress of Historical Sciences in Madrid.
Links to articles available on line:
"There Was no "Absalom" on the Ball Plantations"
"Naming, Kinship and Estate Dispersal"
"Kin and Community Among the Good Hope People after Emancipation"
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ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIST 1301 AND HIST 1302 FALL SEMESTER 2008
Please Come to Class Before Purchasing TEXT BOOK
Students May Purchase Required Monographs in Advance
Hist 1301 Required Monograph: 1776 by David McCullough
Hist 1302 Required Monograph: Polio: An Amerian Story by David Oshinsky
Calendar September 2008
Sept 15 Monday Map Quiz both Classes
Sept 17 Web Assignment Introduction Meet in Library Computer Classroom
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Fall Semester 2008
Hist 1301 Syllabus (word file)
Hist 1302 Syllabus (word file)
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Houston Community College is Hosting the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit
"Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon" from August 21 through November 30
To download exhibit flier in pdf Click on "Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon"
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LINK TO HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE COUPON
http://hccs.edu/hcc/System%20Home/Departments/Communications/news/HMCoupon.pdf
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HIST 1301 Course Assignments, Lecture Outlines, etc
Lecture 1 (word file)
Lecture 2 (word file)
Lectures 3 through 6-7 (word file)
Map Quiz Assignment (word file)
link to National Geographic Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
1776 Questions (word file) This Exam will be given on October 29, 2008
INTERESTING MEDIA LINKS
CNN Report on Archeology at George Washington's Boyhood Home
Video (double click for full screen), Photos, Map and Text
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/washington.boyhood.home/?iref.hpmostpop#cnnSTCVideo
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HIST 1302 Course Assignments, Lectures, etc.
Lecture 1 (word file)
Lectures 2 through 6 (word file)
Map Quiz Assignment (word file)
Link to National Geographic Xpeditions World Atlas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
Link to CIA World Factbook Reference Maps
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/refmaps.html
Oshinsky Questions Polio: An American Story (word file)
This test will be given on November 24
Link to web podcast: Historian David Kennedy
"The Great Depression and World War II"
http://gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p=13
INTERESTING MEDIA LINKS
Link to American World War I Posters
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm
Link to Birth of a Nation Theater Poster
Link to Farm Security Administration Great Depression Photos
Six Photographers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap01.html
Link to "Zoot Suit Culture" from the PBS documentary
http://pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_sfeature/pop_zoot.html
Link to American World War II Posters
http://www.historynow.org/12_2007/interactive.html
Link to Four Freedoms Posters and Audio Link to FDR speech
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.html
Link to "Daisy Spot" LBJ 1964 Presidential Campaign
http://lbjlibrary.tv/media/lbjvideo/daisyspot.wmv
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Hist 1302
Films We will be viewing this semester
The Prize (Part I) (Word file)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Word file)
Queen Lilioukalani (Word file)
Richard Nixon (Part I) (Word file)
