Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 2005-Present
o HIS 163: United States History to 1876 | website
o HIS 164: United States History Since 1877 | website
o HIS 378W: The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1945 | 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 Peter Lang).

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, Encyclopedia Entries, and Book Chapters

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 ”'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 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 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.

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 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 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, Pittsburg, 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 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.