{"id":287,"date":"2000-02-16T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2000-02-16T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/letterstoclio\/?p=287"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:47:53","slug":"meet-dr-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2000\/02\/16\/meet-dr-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Biography<\/span><\/h3>\n

Antwain K. Hunter is a U.S. historian working on slavery and emancipation in the Antebellum South. He is a native of Leominster, Massachusetts and earned his B.A. in History at <\/span>Westfield State College <\/span><\/a>before heading to the <\/span>University of Connecticut<\/span><\/a> for his M.A., also in History. Dr. Hunter earned his Ph.D. in the <\/span>Richards Civil War Era Center<\/span><\/a> at the <\/span>Pennsylvania State University<\/span><\/a>. He teaches courses that cover topics and eras in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Colonial America, the American Revolution, American Slavery, the U.S. South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Transatlantic World. When he\u2019s not working, Dr. Hunter likes engaging Butler students as a Faculty in Residence, fishing from his kayak, playing the guitar, watching college sports, playing hurling and Gaelic football with the Indianapolis Gaelic Athletic Association, cooking, and traveling to new places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Research and Scholarship<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Hunter\u2019s current book project examines the legal and community dynamics of black North Carolinians\u2019 firearm use in the colonial and antebellum eras. His recent publications include, \u201c\u2018A nuisance requiring correction\u2019: Firearm Laws, Black Mobility, and White Property in Antebellum Eastern North Carolina\u201d in the <\/span>North Carolina Historical Review<\/span><\/i><\/a>; \u201c\u2018In the Exercise of a Sound Discretion, Who, of This Class of Persons, Shall Have a Right to the License\u2026\u2019: Family, Race, and Firearms in Antebellum North Carolina\u201d in the <\/span>Journal of Family History<\/span><\/i><\/a>; and \u201c\u2018Patriots,\u2019 \u2018Cowards,\u2019 and\u2018Men Disloyal at Heart:\u2019 Labor and Politics at the Springfield Armory,1861-1865\u201d in the <\/span>Journal of Military History<\/span><\/i><\/a>. He was also an on-screen contributing historian for <\/span>America: Facts vs. Fiction<\/span><\/i>\u2019s episode on the Civil War (aired March 4, 2017 on AHC) and on the President Benjamin Harrison documentary \u201c<\/span>A President at the Crossroads<\/span><\/a>\u201d (aired October 19, 2017 on PBS\/WFYI).<\/span><\/p>\n

Upcoming and Current Butler Courses<\/span><\/h3>\n