Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 2005-Present
o HIS 163: United States History to 1876 | website | website
o HIS 164: United States History Since 1877 | website | website
o HIS 376W: Early America to 1783 | website
o HIS 378W: The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1945 | website
o HIS 388W: Public History | website
o HIS 475W: America and the World: Cultural Interactions | website
o HIS 571W: Colonial and Revolutionary America | website | website | website
o HIS 575W: Recent America, 1876-1933 | website
o HIS 576W: Contemporary America, 1933-2001 | website
o HIS 597W: Independent Study: Jefferson, Madison and the American Founding | website
o HIS 597W: Independent Study: Flashpoints in American History | website
o HIS 597W: Independent Study: Founding Fathers, Founding Documents | website

Assistant Professor, Norfolk State University, Norfolk Virginia, 2001-2005
o HIS 101: History of World Civilizations, Since 1300
o HIS 102: History of the American Republic, 1492-1876
o HIS 103: History of the American People, 1877-2000
o HIS 328: History of Virginia, 1607-1865
o HIS 330: History of Colonial America, 1492-1763
o HIS 490R: History of the American Revolution and Federal Era, 1763-1800
o HIS 490T: Public History and Technology

Master Lecturer, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1997-2001
o HIST 2003: History of the American Republic, 1492-1877
o HIST 2013: History of the American People, 1877-2001
o WCV 1013: History of Western Civilization, 1492-2001

Recipient, "Award For Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology"
o Norfolk State University, Faculty Award, 2004.

Co-Recipient, Baum Teaching Grant
o University of Arkansas, Spring 2001.

Books

o Jeffrey Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools (under contract with the University of Virginia Press).

o Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles Ford, Sonia Yaco, Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2009).

o Jeff Littlejohn and the Walker County Historical Commission, Huntsville (Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2009).

Articles and Book Chapters

o ”'Sit Down Children, Sit Down': The Sit-In Movement in Norfolk, Virginia.” In Voices from Within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy, edited by William Alexander, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, and Charles Ford, 330-344. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

o "The Brown Decision in Local Context: Race and Public Education in Norfolk, Virginia." In Brown v. Board of Education: Its Impact on Public Education, 1954 - 2004, edited by Dara Byrne, 165-175. New York: Word For Word Publishing for the Thurgood Marshall Foundation, 2005.

Encyclopedia Entries, Book Reviews, and other Publications

o Review of The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States' Rights by Frank Lambert (Oxford University Press, 2010), forthcoming in the Journal of Southern History.

o "Massive Resistance" in the Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Paul Finkelman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

o “The Southern Manifesto” in Milestone Documents in American History, edited by Paul Finkelman, (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008).

o "Irving Brant,” in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, ed. Roger K. Newman (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006).

o "The Civil War," "The Korean War," "World War II - Military and Foreign Affairs," "World War II - Domestic Affairs," in The Encyclopedia of American Political History, edited by Paul Finkelman and Peter Wallenstein (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001).

o "Democracy in the Age of the Great Society: The Lippmann-Dewey Debate" in The Ozark Historical Review 29 (Spring 2000): 41-51.

o "Academician to Radical Activist: Bertrand Russell, 1912-1916" The Ozark Historical Review 25 (Spring 1996): 1-19.

o Principal Investigator. “Democracy and Diversity in Walker County, Texas.” Grant funded by Sam Houston State University, 2010. SHSU funding: $14,000. Project website.

o Web-Director. “Waterways to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Virginia.” Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009. NEH funding: $100,000. Principal Investigator: Cassandra Newby-Alexander. Project website.

o Principal Investigator. “Democracy and Diversity in Walker County, Texas.” Grant funded by Humanities Texas, 2009. HTX funding: $4000. Project website.

o Participating Scholar. Teaching American History Grant, 2005 - 2009. $990,940 Federal Grant to Virginia Beach Public Schools. Where History Occurs (W.H.O.) -- Director: Georgeanne C. Hribar.

o Participating Scholar, Teaching American History Grant, 2005 - 2008. $828,968 Federal Grant to Texas Education Service Center Region VI. Reviving the Tradition: Conceptualizing American History -- Director: Bill Shuttlesworth.

o Principal Investigator. “The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia.” Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004. NEH funding: $24,500. Project website.

o Principal Investigator. “A Community Forum with the Norfolk 17.” Grant funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2004. VFH funding: $2,500. Project website.

o Web-Director. “The Tale of Two Churches: Emanuel A.M.E., Monumental Methodist, and the Underground Railroad in Portsmouth, Virginia.” Grant funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2004. VFH funding: $12,000. Project website.

o NEH Summer Fellowship. "American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective" Directed by Donald Kommers at Notre Dame, 2003.

o Recipient of $700 Research Grant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, 2003.

o Web-Director. “Mirrored Communities.” Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003. NEH funding: $25,000. Principal Investigator: Cassandra Newby-Alexander. Project website.

o Web- Director. “Race, Time, and Place: African Americans in Tidewater, Virginia .” Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002. NEH funding: $25,000. Principal Investigator: Cassandra Newby-Alexander. Project website.

o 2010. "Walter E. Hoffman and the Agonies of Busing: The Justice at the Center of 'Forced Justice,'" The Virginia Forum, Christopher Newport University, April 16, 2010.

o 2010. "Samuel Walker Houston and the African American Training School at Galilee, Texas," Spring Meeting of the East Texas Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2010.

o 2010. "Sit Down Children: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sit-In Movement in Tidewater, Virginia," Norfolk State University, February 18, 2010.

o 2009. “The All-American City and the Last Throes of Tokenism, 1959-1971,” Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2009.

o 2009. “Democracy and Diversity in Walker County Texas,” Texas Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 2009.

o 2009. "'We Don't Want Norfolk to be Like Richmond': The Coordinated Retreat from Busing in Norfolk, Virginia, 1975-1987,” Association of the Study of African American Life and History, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2009.

o 2009. "Diversity and Democracy in Walker County Texas,” Association of the Study of African American Life and History, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2009.

o 2009. “'It's Time to Put Away Your Administrative Knee Pants, Hula Hoops and Bob Jacks': School. Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia, 1959–1975,” Virginia Forum, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia, April 2009.

o 2008. "The All-American City and the Last Throes of Tokenism, 1959-1971,” Fourth Biennial Conference, Urban History Association, Houston, Texas, November 2008.

o 2008. "The Fiftieth Anniversary of School Desegregation in Virginia, 1958-59,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Birmingham, Alabama, October 2008.

o 2008. "The All-American City and the Last Throes of Tokenism: Norfolk, Virginia, 1960-1964,” Southwestern Social Sciences Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2008.

o 2008. “'Sit Down Children, Sit Down': Milton Gay, Jr. and the Student Movement in Norfolk, Virginia,” Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, February 19, 2008.

o 2007. “'By the Hundreds': The Fight for Racial Equality in Norfolk Public Schools, 1959 - 1963,” America 's 400th Anniversary: Voices from Within the Veil, Norfolk, Virginia, February 2007.

o 2006. “The School Closing Crisis in Norfolk, Virginia – 1958-1959,” Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.

o 2006. “Re-thinking the Riddick Case: The Lessons of Re-segregation in Norfolk Public Schools,” Southwest Social Sciences Association Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 2006.

o 2006. “The Man Who Remade Madison: Irving Newton Brant and the Father of the Constitution,” Southwest Social Studies Association Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 2006.

o 2005. "The Brown Decision in Local Context: Race and Public Education in Norfolk, Virginia," American Association of History and Computing, Seattle, Washington, January 2005.

o 2004. "The Brown Decision in Tidewater Virginia,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2004.

o 2004. "The Brown Decision in Local Context: Race and Public Education in Norfolk, Virginia," Hood College conference "Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Unfinished Business of Brown v. Board of Education, Frederick, Maryland, March 2004.

o 2004. "Making More of Method: Teaching Public History and Technology at Norfolk State University," American Association for History and Computing. January 2004.

o 2010. "Diversity and Democracy in Walker County Texas." Presentation at the May 2010 meeting of the Walker County Historical Commission.

o 2010. "Huntsville, Houston, and Beyond: Public History Projects at Sam Houston State University." Chaired Undergraduate Research Panel at the Southwestern Social Sciences Convention in Houston, Texas, April 1, 2010. Students included Kevin Browning, Philomena Buxton, Stephan Pachica, and Amanda Haynes.

o 2010. "Civil Rights - Sit-Ins." Radio appearance on the fiftieth anniversary of the sit-in demonstrations in Tidewater, Virginia. WHRV's "Hear Say with Cathy Lewis." February 3, 2010. Audio stream

o 2009. ”From Fitzhugh to Foster: Family Stories and the Founding of the Houston Chronicle.” Presented with student Kevin Browning at the October 2009 meeting of the Walker County Historical Commission.

o 2009. “History Day at Huntsville State Park: Walker County in the 1930s.” Presented with students from HIS 388 at Huntsville State Park, September 2009. Website.

o 2009. ”What's the Story? A Constitution Day Mystery.” Presented at the SHSU Constitution Day Celebration, September, 2009.

o 2008. "Huntsville 's World War II Prisoner of War Camp" Faculty advisor and conference chair for students Nathan Pope and Jared Gamble, East Texas Historical Association, September 2008.

o 2008. “Religious Liberty: From the Revolutionary Era to the Culture Wars." Presented at the SHSU Constitution Day Celebration, September, 2007.

o 2007. “Direct Action: The Sit-Ins In Tidewater, Virginia.” Presented to the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth , August 2007.

o 2006. “Religious Liberty in Historical Perspective,” with Thomas Cox. Presented at the SHSU Constitution Day Celebration, September, 2006.

o 2006. “School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia." Presented at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, February 2006.

o 2005. “The Constitutional Revolution of 1937.” Presented at the SHSU American Democracy Project Conference, November, 2005.

o 2005. “Civil Liberties in Wartime: A Historical Perspective,” with Thomas Cox. Presented at the SHSU Constitution Day Celebration, September, 2005.

o 2005. Virginia Public History Trips, 2004-05. Website.