Williamjames Hoffer
Professor
Department of History
Seton Hall University
United States of America
Biography
Williamjames Hoffer teaches a number of subjects including legal, economic and military history all with a view towards understanding how governments change and are affected by change with a focus on the United States. As both a lawyer and historian, he combine a number of different techniques not necessarily to find answers, but to start asking good questions. I bring this perspective to my research as well, which concentrates on political and legal history in the modern U.S. though future projects will look earlier. He believe that universities are the greatest contributors to human advancement and am very pleased to be a small part of that effort.
Research Interest
Legal, economic and military history
Publications
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• Supreme Court: An Essential History. The University Press of Kansas, 2007
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• The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism and the Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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• Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
