Sally E. Hadden (born 1962) is an American legal historian and professor of history.[1] She specializes in the histories of early America, slave law, and the American legal profession.

Sally Hadden
Born1962 (age 61–62)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
Harvard University (JD, PhD)
Occupations
  • Legal historian
  • history professor
SpouseRobert F. Berkhofer III

Education and early career

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The youngest of five children, Hadden became interested in legal history while studying as an undergraduate with historian William Leuchtenburg. She received her B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984, and her J.D. in 1989 and History Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, where her dissertation was advised by early American historian Bernard Bailyn.[2]

Academic career

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Hadden is the author of Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, among other books. The Law and History Review described Slave Patrols as the "first full-length work" to thoroughly examine slave patrols' "origins, character, variations, demise, and legacy."[3] Hadden's monograph was described in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History as "thoroughly researched," "remarkably complete," and "commendably cautious."[4] Her work on the topic was later featured in The 1619 Project[5] and the History Channel documentary Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters.[6]

The author of over two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, Hadden has frequently collaborated with other prominent legal historians, including Maeva Marcus and Patti Minter. With Alfred Brophy she co-edited A Companion to American Legal History (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).[7] She has also led a Colonial Society of Massachusetts initiative aimed at making formerly untranscribed and unpublished historic legal documents available to scholars.[8] Hadden has served for decades on the Law and History Review editorial board, as well as on committees for the OAH, Southern Historical Association, Massachusetts Historical Society, and the ASLH, from whom she was the first woman to receive the Craig Joyce award.[9]

Hadden has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Humanities Center, British Library, American Historical Association, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and other institutions. In 2010, Hadden became a professor of history at Western Michigan University. Prior to that time, she taught at Florida State University, University of Toledo, and Harvard University.

Personal life

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Hadden is married to medieval historian Robert F. Berkhofer III, son of American historian Robert F. Berkhofer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-founded the Kalamazoo chapter of Feed the Fight Kalamazoo, an organization that provided meals to first responders.[10]

Selected Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ "Sally Hadden". Western Michigan University. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Sally Hadden: Reflections on Bernard Bailyn". Law & History Review. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. ^ Quigley, Paul D. (2004). "Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Review)". Law and History Review. 22 (2): 433–434. doi:10.2307/4141656. ISSN 1939-9022. JSTOR 4141656. S2CID 145446003. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Weir, Robert M. (May 1, 2002). "Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 33 (1): 135. doi:10.1162/00221950260029327. ISSN 1530-9169. S2CID 142805032. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  5. ^ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (2021). The 1619 Project. New York: One World. pp. 104, 508–510.
  6. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0823691/
  7. ^ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/A+Companion+to+American+Legal+History-p-9781118533772
  8. ^ https://www.colonialsociety.org/documents
  9. ^ https://aslh.net/award/craig-joyce-medal/
  10. ^ https://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/feed-the-fight-kalamazoo-delivers-its-final-meals-062421.aspx
  11. ^ Donlan, Seán Patrick (2015-07-03). "Signposts: new directions in southern legal history". Comparative Legal History. 3 (2): 336–339. doi:10.1080/2049677X.2015.1110982. ISSN 2049-677X. S2CID 155603859.
  12. ^ Wilson, Steven Harmon (2014). "Review of Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 118 (1): 79–81. ISSN 0038-478X. JSTOR 24388854.
  13. ^ Bodenhamer, David J. (2015). "Review of Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 94 (2): 269–271. ISSN 0015-4113. JSTOR 24769189.
  14. ^ Brown, R. Ben (2014). "Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History ed. by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter (review)". Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 112 (2): 314–317. doi:10.1353/khs.2014.0087. ISSN 2161-0355. S2CID 161680022.
  15. ^ Hoffer, Peter Charles (February 2014). "Alfred L. Brophy and Sally E. Hadden, eds., A Companion to American Legal History, Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. 582. $195.00 (ISBN 1-4443-3142-4)". Law and History Review. 32 (1): 222–223. doi:10.1017/S0738248013000771. ISSN 0738-2480. S2CID 144193506.
  16. ^ Tomlins, C. L. (2014-03-01). "A Companion to American Legal History". Journal of American History. 100 (4): 1180–1181. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau017. ISSN 0021-8723.
  17. ^ Sirks, A. J. B. (2014-12-03). "Book Review: A companion to American legal history, edited by Sally E. Hadden and A.L. Brophy". Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'histoire du droit / The Legal History Review. 82 (3–4): 334. doi:10.1163/15718190-08234p08. ISSN 0040-7585.
  18. ^ Kendall, John (2014-01-01). "A Companion to American Legal History". Reference Reviews. 28 (1): 11–12. doi:10.1108/RR-06-2013-0156. ISSN 0950-4125.
  19. ^ Brown, Steven P. (2014). "Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822–1825 by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., David I. Durham, Sally E. Hadden (review)". Alabama Review. 67 (3): 299–302. doi:10.1353/ala.2014.0021. ISSN 2166-9961. S2CID 162283063.