Teaching

• HST 305 - America in the Age of Revolution
• HST 306 - Civil War and Reconstruction
• HST 300 - Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1500-1725

Research

Research activities

• Travers is currently researching a new book project, concerning a little-known encounter between pirates and the Royal Navy that culminated in a dramatic trial in nearby Newport, Rhode Island.

Research

Research interests

• The ways that violence – imagined, threatened, or actual – has influenced (and still influences) American societies, politics, and identities

Select publications

• Travers (2015).
  Hodges’ Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War
  
  
• Travers
  Casualty of Revolution: The Sad Case of Elizabeth Smith of Boston
  Online Journal of the American Revolution
  

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