Sean Adams

Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History

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. 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 broader survey of America’s Industrial Revolution.