Sean Adams

Biography

Sean Adams (Ph.D., Wisconsin) is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History and Interim Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, where he teaches classes in the global history of energy, American capitalism, and 19th Century U.S. History. Adams is the founder and director of Inquire Capitalism program (https://inquire-capitalism.clas.ufl.edu/), which supports research on global capitalism and has several public-facing digital research projects on business history. A specialist in the Industrial Revolution, Adams is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins, 2004), Home Fires: How Americans Kept War in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014), and a three-volume anthology entitled The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (Routledge, 2013). He is the editor of The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and The Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is currently writing two books, one on the economic and historical value of land in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as well as a survey of America’s Industrial Revolution.