Richard L. Hume
Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 313 – 509-335-4931
rhume@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1969
Academic & Professional Interests
Hume's specialty is Civil War and the Reconstruction Era; he also teaches American surveys and courses on the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras.
Publications
Hume's articles appear in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Hume co-edited, with F.N. Boney (University of Georgia) and Rafia Zafar (University of Michigan), God Made Man, Man Made Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh (Mercer University Press, 1990). He has recently co-authored a book with departmental colleague Professor Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press, 2008).