Dr. Warren M. Billings, Chair

1964–1968, attended Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois. Graduated Ph.D. in history. Dissertation: “‘Virginias Deploured Condition’: The Coming of Bacon’s Rebellion, 1660–1676.” Dissertation director: Emory G. Evans.

1963–1964, attended the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Graduated A.M. in history.

1958–1962, attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Graduated A.B. in history. 1954–1958, attended and graduated James Blair High School, Williamsburg, Va.

Early and Revolutionary America. American Legal History. Documentary Editing. Principles of Archivy.

U.S. Survey, 1500–1865.

History of Early America, 1607–1700.

Law in Early America.

Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1700–1791.

Social and Material Culture of Early America.

Proseminar in Early American History.

Research Seminar in Early American History.

Seminar in Documentary Editing.

Seminar in Archivy.

Seminar in the History of American Law.

The Conduct of Trial in Colonial Virginia.

I directed sixty-three masters’ students and served on dissertation committees at LSU, UNO, the University of Maryland, and the College of William and Mary.

2010–, Visiting Professor of Law, the College of William and Mary Law School.

December 2005–, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans.

Fall 2002, Visiting Williams Professor of Law, University of Richmond.

2001–2004, Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans.

1994–2005, Distinguished Professor of History, University of New Orleans.

1988–1994, Research Professor of History, University of New Orleans.

1980–1984, 2005, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of New Orleans. 1978–1988, Professor of History, University of New Orleans.

1974, Acting Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans

1972–1978, Associate Professor of History, University of New Orleans.

1968–1972, Assistant Professor of History, Louisiana State University in New Orleans (now University of New Orleans).

1964–1968, Graduate teaching assistant, Northern Illinois University.

1962–1963, worked as an apprentice crane operator on various construction jobs in Richmond, Virginia and its environs.

Agricultural History, American Historical Review, American Journal of Legal History, American Quarterly, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Illinois History, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, The Law Librarian, Louisiana History, Nautical Research Journal, New England Quarterly, North Carolina Historical Review, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Presidential Studies Quarterly, South Carolina Historical Magazine, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, William and Mary Quarterly.

Biographical sketch of Sir William Berkeley on Virtual Jamestown <http://www.virtualjamestown.org/>

The Statehouses of Jamestown on ibid.

UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH:

“Towards the Creation of a System of Records Management for the Louisiana Judiciary.” Report submitted to Joe W. Sanders, Chief Justice of Louisiana, 15 March 1978.

Point of Order: Parliamentary Law and the Virginia General Assembly, 1619-2007. A biography of William Claiborne, 1600–1677.

A history of the Louisiana State Bar Association.

“The Making of the King James Bible.” Delivered at the Malcolm C. Webb Symposium, New Orleans, La., October 2011.

“Who Was Nathaniel Bacon?” The Friends of Green Spring House Annual Lecture, Williamsburg, Va., October 2011.

“Using Digital Archives to Facilitate Historical Research and Teaching.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Philadelphia, Pa., July 2011.

“From the College of Henricus to the College of William and Mary.” Delivered at Henricus State Park, Chester, Va., March 2011.

“Huey P. Long, Jr. and Harry F. Byrd, Sr.: Two Southern Caudillos.” Delivered at the annual Meeting, Louisiana Historical Association, Lafayette, La., March 2011.

“‘Send us . . . what other Lawe books you shall see fitt:’ Books That Shaped the Law in Virginia, 1600–1860.” Delivered at the Sixth Virginia Forum, Lexington, Va., March 2011.

“Southern Caudillos: Harry F. Byrd, Sr., and Huey P. Long, Jr.” Delivered at the Fifth Virginia Forum, Newport News, Va., April 2010.

Panelist. “How Southern Was/Is Virginia.” Delivered at the Fifth Virginia Forum, Newport News, Va., April 2010.

“The General Assembly of 1619: Myths and Realities.” The 2009 Jamestown Lecture on Representative Government, a series sponsored by Preservation Virginia and the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va., July 2009.

Commentator, “Louisiana’s Political Identity across the Empires, 1780–1970.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Monroe, La., March 2009.

Moderator, New Directions in Seventeenth-Century Virginia History: A Panel Discussion. Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Richmond, October 2007.

“Why Jamestown?” Delivered at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., October 2007.

“Why Not Jamestown?” Delivered at the Botetourt County Historical Society, Fincastle, Va., October 2007.

Commentator, Early Modern Virginia: New Thoughts on the Old Dominion. A symposium sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the State University of New York, Binghamton, Hampden-Sydney College, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Charlottesville, Va., August 2007.

“John Cowell: Legal Lexicographer.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Legal History and Rare Books Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, New Orleans, La., July 2007. “Historical Comparisons of the Civil and Common Law.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, Baton Rouge, La., April 2007.

“English Legal Writers and the Origins of Virginia Law.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. St. Louis, Mo., July 2006.

“Anglo-Indian Relations in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Delivered at the symposium Learning Lessons from the Past for the Future sponsored by the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, June 2006.

Panelist. “Race, Law, and Politics in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Library Association, New Orleans, June 2006.

“Writing Sir William Berkeley’s Biography.” Delivered at the Metairie Literary Guild, Metairie, La., April 2006.

“Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Virginia Society.” Delivered at the 2005 Heritage Lecture Series sponsored by the Jamestown–Yorktown Foundation and the Capital Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia), Jamestown, September 2005.

“Sir William Berkeley and the Making of the General Assembly.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Order of the First Families of Virginia. Washington, D.C., April, 2005

Commentator. “Louisiana’s Legal History.” Annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Lafayette, La., March 2005.

“A Brief History of the General Assembly.” Keynote address delivered at the Virginia General Assembly Project sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Richmond, July 2004.

“The Pleasures of Doing History.” Keynote address delivered at the inaugural conference of the Lambda Rho Chapter of Phil Alpha History Honorary Society, Inc., Grambling State University, February 2004.

“From William Hakewill to Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Procedure Manuals.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Legal History and Rare Books Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, Seattle, July 2003.

“Rummaging the Transylvania Law Library.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, Lexington, Ky., April 2003.

“Properties of the Elephant: Members of the General Assembly, 1619-1700.” The Sixteenth Emanuel Emroch Lecture, T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, October 2002.

“The Splendid Myth of the Civil Code.” Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase Series. Sponsored by the Department of History, University of New Orleans, October 2002.

“A Little Parliament: The General Assembly of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century,” Delivered at the Tenth Annual Jamestown Lecture Series, Jamestown, October 2002.

“Towards a Research Agenda for Legal History: Some Modest Proposals.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Orlando, July 2002.

“Sir William Berkeley and Green Spring House.” Delivered to the Friends of the National Park Service for Green Spring, Williamsburg, April 2002.

“Politics Most Foul: Winston Overton’s Ghost and the Louisiana Judicial Election of 1934.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, New Iberia, March 2002. “Louisiana & The Law.” Delivered as part of the series Conversations with the Past sponsored by the Department of History and Geography of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Lafayette, November 2000.

“Mixed Jurisdictions and Convergence: The Louisiana Example.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the International Association of Law Librarians, Dublin, August 2000.

“Sir William Berkeley, Virginia Planter and Politician.” Delivered at the 1999 Heritage Lecture Series sponsored by the Jamestown–Yorktown Foundation, Jamestown, April 1999.

“A Bar for Louisiana: Origins of the Louisiana State Bar Association.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Alexandria, March 1999.

“Sir William Berkeley: Governor of Virginia.” Delivered at a scholars’ round table convened by the National Park Service at Jamestown, June 1998, as part of the planning for the commemoration of the founding of Jamestown.

“The New Louisiana Legal History: How It Began, Who Does It, and What It Is.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, New Orleans, March 1998.

“Colonial Leadership in 17th Virginia.” The concluding lecture in the series “Jamestown’s People: Virginians in the 17th Century, sponsored by the Virginia Military Institute and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, September 1997.

Commentator. “Kinship and Power in the Lower South.” Annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Winston-Salem, N.C., June 1997.

Commentator. “The Constitution of 1812 Revisited.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Bossier City, March 1997.

“Lewis Kerr and Legal Treatise Writing,” Delivered at the University of Maryland Seminar in Early American History, College Park, February 1997.

“Using Archives in the Classroom.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Hammond, 1996.

“Colonial Virginia Law and Its Historians.” Delivered at the joint annual meeting of the Virginia Association of Law Libraries and the Southern Eastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, Richmond, April 1995.

“The Supreme Court of Louisiana and the Administration of Justice, 1813–1994.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Houma, La., March 1995.

“George Grossman’s Elements of Legal Research.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Seattle, July 1994.

“Confessions of a Court Historian.” Presidential address to the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, New Iberia, La., March 1994.

“Councils, Assemblies, and Courts of Judicature: The Development of Representative Government in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Delivered at the 1994 Heritage Lecture Series sponsored by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Yorktown, Va., January 1994.

“Sir William Berkeley.” Presented at the Fall Colloquium of the (Omohundro) Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., October 1993.

“Imagining Jamestown.” The inaugural lecture in the annual Jamestown Lecture Series sponsored by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Williamsburg, Va., October 1993.

“Sir William and the Invention of Self.” Delivered at the annual conference of the British Association of American Studies, Sunderland, Eng., April 1993.

“Sir William Berkeley, A Cavalier Turned Virginian.” The Nineteenth Annual Mary F. Carroll Lectures, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va., October 1992.

“Sir William Berkeley: Promoting Virginia Through Diversification.” Delivered at the Samuel Hartlib Conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Eng., July 1992.

“Sir William Berkeley: From Cavalier to Virginian.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Ft. Worth, Tx., November 1991.

“The Courts of Louisiana, 1803–1879.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, New Orleans, La., July 1991.

“Getting Published in Louisiana History: The Anonymous Reader’s Perspective.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Baton Rouge, La., March 1991.

“The Louisiana Chief: Edward Douglass White and the American Judicial Tradition.” Delivered at the Louisiana State University in Shreveport Fall Forum, Shreveport, La., November 1990. Commentator. “Washington Before Washington.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., March 1990.

“Virginia and the Colonial Origin of the Bill of Rights.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tuscaloosa, February 1990.

Commentator, “Political Authority, Republicanism, and the Virginia Courts.” Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, La., November 1990.

“‘THE ANCIENT TRYAL BY JURY IS PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS’: The Origins of Criminal Guarantees in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.” Delivered at the Northern Virginia Studies Conference, Gunston Hall, Lorton, Va., October 1990.

Commentator, “Documentary Evidence from the Quill Pen to the Electronic Age: Decline or Revolution?” Association for Documentary Editing, Charleston, S.C., October 1990.

“The Search for Sir William Berkeley.” Delivered at the Staff Break Series, North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C., September 1990.

“Criminal Law in Louisiana.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Alexandria, La., March 1990.

“The Sir William Berkeley Papers Project.” Delivered at the Mellon Fellows Colloquium, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va., August 1989.

“Crimes and Punishments in Louisiana.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of the Early Republic, Charlottesville, Va., July 1989.

“The Law of Servants and Slaves in Colonial Virginia.” Delivered at the New Orleans Area History Seminar, Loyola University, November 1988.

“Framing the Constitution of the United States.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Archives of Louisiana, New Orleans, La., October 1988.

“VERITAS EX DOCUMENTIS: What Truth?” Presidential address to the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, New Orleans, La., October 1988.

“Berkeley and Effingham: Who Cares?” the Alexander W. Weddell Lecture, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va., September, 1988.

“Preserving Legal Materials: The Historian’s Perspective.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Atlanta, Ga., June 1988.

“Durand of Dauphiné: An Itinerant Huguenot in Colonial Virginia.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, Baton Rouge, La., June 1988.

“The Glorious Revolution in America: The Revolution That Wasn’t.” Delivered at the Conference on the Glorious Revolution in America—Three Hundred Years After, sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., April 1988.

“The Louisiana Constitution of 1812.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, New Iberia, La., March 1988.

“From this Seed: The Constitution of 1812.” Delivered at In Search of Fundamental Law: Louisiana’s Constitutions. A series sponsored by the Louisiana State Library and the Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, La., October 1987.

“The Constitutional Convention, May–September 1787.” Delivered at the Provost Lecture Series at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., August 1987.

“Daniel Shays and the Constitution of 1787.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana division of the Farmers Home Administration, Baton Rouge, La., June 1987.

“Building Grass Roots Support for the Documentary Heritage Trust of the United States.” Delivered at the joint annual meeting of the National Council on Public History and the Society for History in the Federal Government, Washington, D.C., April 1987.

Chairman/commentator, “The American South and the U.S. Constitution.” Fifth Citadel Conference on the South, Charleston, S.C., April 1987.

“‘A Course of Study’: Books That Shaped Louisiana Law.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, New Orleans, La., March 1987.

“The Colonial Origins of the Constitution.” Delivered at the annual History Forum of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Ala., February 1987.

Convener, moderator, and commentator, “Judging and the Constitution: the View from the Bench.” A forum in observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution sponsored by the Louisiana Bicentennial Commission, the Friends of the Law Library of Louisiana, and the Friends of the Earl K. Long Library, New Orleans, La., November 1986.

“A National Trust for Our Documentary Heritage.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, Charlottesville, Va., September 1986.

“Louisiana’s Court Records: What Exists, Where to find Them, and How to Interpret Them.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Shreveport, La., March 1986.

Chairman and commentator, “1676 and All That.” Southern Historical Association, Houston, 1985. “The Law of Servants and Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Delivered at The Law in Early America, 1607-1861. A conference sponsored by the New-York Historical Society, New York City, May 1985.

“The Origins of the Bill of Rights.” Delivered at The Bill of Rights: Two Centuries of Debate—A Forum sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Louisiana Committee for the Humanities (now the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), New Orleans, La., March 1985. “The Supreme Court and the Education of Louisiana Lawyers.” Delivered at the France-Louisiana Judicial Seminar, sponsored by the Criminal District Court for Orleans Parish and the Louisiana Bar Association, New Orleans, La., November 1984.

“The Supreme Court and Legal Education in Antebellum Louisiana.” Delivered at a symposium on nineteenth-century American law sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio, November 1984.

“The Legacy of François-Xavier Martin.” Delivered at the Louisiana Historical Society, New Orleans, La., November 1983.

“The History and Uses of Ship Models.” Delivered at the Gulf Coast Section of the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New Orleans, La., October 1983. Commentator, “Crime and Punishment in the Colonial South.” Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Ky., November 1981.

“Cardinal Principles: Historical and Archival.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, Princeton, N.J., November 1979.

“The Evolution of Due Process of Law.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Association, St. Louis, Mo., November 1978.

“Law and Culture in the Colonial Chesapeake.” Delivered at the (Omohundro) Institute of Early American History and Culture’s Thirty-eighth Conference on Early American History, Cornell University, March 1978.

“Historical Materials in the Supreme Court Archives.” Delivered at the second Symposium on Louisiana State Archives, Hammond, La., June 1977.

“Records of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.” Delivered at the first Symposium on Louisiana State Archives, New Orleans, La., December 1976.

“The Spirit of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, Mo., April 1976.

Chairman and commentator, “Louisiana and the American Revolution.” Louisiana Historical Association, Lafayette, La., March 1976.

“Patterns of Ownership and Distribution of Blacks in Seventeenth–Century Virginia, 1634–1689.” Delivered at the (Omohundro) Institute of Early American History and Culture’s Thirty-second Conference on Early American History, College Park, November 1974.

“The Development of Political Institutions in Colonial Virginia, 1634–1676.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Houston, Tx., November 1971.

“The Causes of Bacon’s Rebellion: Some Suggestions.” Delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Ga., November 1967.

American Association of Law Libraries, Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (honorary life member), Nautical Research Guild, Southern Historical Association, Virginia Historical Society, Louisiana Historical Association, Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1982–2005, Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Member, Virtual Jamestown Advisory Board, 2004–2007.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery, 2001–2008. Member, Jamestown 400th Commission, 2003–2008.

This was a federal entity named by the Secretary of the Interior that planned and executed programs to mark the quadricentennial of the founding of the republic on a national level.

Member, Board of Trustees, Preservation Virginia, 2002–2008; 2011–.

Member, Board of Directors, Friends of the National Park Service for Green Spring, Inc., 2000–

Member, Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board, 1998–2000.

Member, Board of Directors, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, 1998– 2001.

Member of Strategic Planning Group for the Quadricentennial of the Founding of Jamestown, 1997–1998.

Member, Board of Directors, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 1996–1999.

Chairman, Advisory Board, Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, 1995–2008.

Founding member, Board of Directors, Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society. Commissioner, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1988–1990.

Chairman, ad hoc search committee for executive director of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 1990.

President, Association for Documentary Editing, 1987–1988.

Member, Association for Documentary Editing Steering Committee to establish the Documentary Heritage Trust of the United States, 1986–1988.

Chairman, Program Committee, Association for Documentary Editing, 1986–1987.

Member, Council of the Association for Documentary Editing, 1985–1989.

Director of Publications, Association for Documentary Editing, 1985–1986.

Member, Committee on By-Laws, Association for Documentary Editing, 1981–1984.

Member, Program Committee, Association for Documentary Editing, 1982.

Chairman, Committee on By-Laws, Association for Documentary Editing, 1979–1981.

Member, Committee on Educational Standards, Association for Documentary Editing, 1979–1980. Executive secretary, archives-history committee, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Judicial Circuit, 1978–1982.

Member, Douglas Adair Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 1987–1992. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1988–1992.

Member, Board of Directors, Louisiana State Museum, 1989–2004.

Vice-chairman, Board of Directors, Louisiana State Museum, 1991–1992.

Member, W.R. Irby Committee (finance and property management), Louisiana State Museum, 1993–2004.

Treasurer, Board of Directors, Louisiana State Museum, 1997–2004.

Chairman, W.R. Irby Committee, Louisiana State Museum, 1997–2004.

Chairman, Buildings and Grounds Committee, Louisiana State Museum, 1993–1997.

President, Louisiana Historical Association, 1993–1994.

Chairman, Committee on Constitution and By-laws, Louisiana Historical Association, 1998–2007. Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana Historical Association, 1992–1994.

Member, Board of Directors, Louisiana Historical Association, 1987–1988, 1993–1997.

Member, Committee on Charter and By-laws, Louisiana Historical Association, 1986–1988. Chairman, Nominating Committee, Louisiana Historical Association, 1984–1986, 2009–2010. Member, Publications Committee, Louisiana Historical Association, 1983–1984.

Consulting Coordinator of Research, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1985–1986.

Trustee, University of the South, 1980–1989.

Reader for the William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, Louisiana History, Journal of Southern History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Reader for Cambridge University Press, University of Florida Press, LSU Press, the University of South Carolina Press, Southern Illinois University Press, the University of Virginia Press, and Prentice-Hall. Evaluator of proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Consultant to the Supreme Court of Louisiana on the preservation and management of court records. A director of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Records Project, which was begun to organize, repair, index, film, and digitize the records of the court. Consultant to the Department of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary and Southside Historical Sites, Inc. Flowerdew Hundred archaeological project, 1974–1979. Member of a statewide committee that advised the Chief Justice of Louisiana on the care and management of the state’s judicial records, 1977–1979. Member of the Advisory Board of WWNO-FM, the New Orleans affiliate of National Public Radio, 2000–2008. Chaired an ad hoc committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana that distributed undesignated funds for diocesan recovery projects post-Katrina.

Lectureships

Jamestown Lecturer on Representative Government, Library of Virginia, July 2009. Emanuel Emroch Lecturer, University of Richmond, October 2002.

Mary S. Carroll Lecturer, Mary Baldwin College, October 1992.

Alexander W. Weddell Lecturer, Virginia Historical Society, September 1988.

Prizes

Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography. Given by the Virginia Historical Society for Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (Baton Rouge, 2004). April 2005.

Archie K. Davis Research Fellow, 1995–1996.

Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellow, 1989, 1992.

Grant-in-aid of research from the American Philosophical Society, 1975, 1992. Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989. LSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 1987–1988.

UNO Summer Scholar, 1984, 1986, 1988.

Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1981–1982.

Grants from the UNO Graduate Research Council, 1971, 1977, 1984, and 1986. Grants from the UNO College of Liberal Arts Research Fund, 1971, and 1976.