Benjamin Lewis FitzpatrickBenjamin Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor History at Morehead State University. He received his B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame where he was awarded the Graduate Teaching Award from he Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. His specialty is African American history with an emphasis on slavery and the slave trade. His additional research interests include antebellum cultural and political history and antebellum Kentucky history. For the past twenty years, he has dedicated his career to teaching U.S. History at the college level, serving as a Visiting Lecturer at Eastern Kentucky University and Indiana University, South Bend, and as an Assistant Professor of History at Florida State College, Jacksonville. Dr. Fitzpatrick teaches a variety of American history courses, including the Civil War and Reconstruction and Kentucky History. In addition, for the past several years, he has worked to promote history education by serving as a scholar consultant for the Kentucky Humanities Council’s Kentucky Chautauqua program. Read More Read Less