Sean Adams (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1999) is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History and specializes in the history of American capitalism, as well as the history of energy. Dr. Adams’ most recent book argues that America’s fossil fuel addition traces back to the 19th century and is entitled Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the 19th Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014). He is also the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004), a three-volume anthology entitled The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (2013), the editor of A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (2013) and The Early American Republic: A Documentary History (2009), and has written several articles and book chapters in his fields of research. At UF he teaches courses in the history of American capitalism, the global history of energy and 19th century U.S. history. He also leads the Inquire Capitalism program, which provides resources for students, researchers, and the general public on the history of capitalism.
For more, see the program’s website at: https://inquire-capitalism.clas.ufl.edu/