Matthew E. Mason is a professor of history at BYU. He received his PhD in history from the University of Maryland in 2002, and started at BYU in fall 2003 after a year at Eastern Michigan University. He teaches a variety of courses on the history of slavery, early America, and Britain. He has published articles in a variety of journals of national and international reach. He has written two books: Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic (2006); and Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett (2016). He has co-edited books including John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary (2017); and Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (2008).
Classes
- Hist 220: U.S. to 1877
- Hist 220: U.S. to 1877
- Hist 323: Modern Britain
- Hist 366: Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa and the Atlantic World
- Hist 367: Slavery in the U.S.
- Hist 373: The Civil War Era
- Hist 490: Historical Research and Writing
- A HTG 100: American Heritage
- UNIV 291: Unexpected Connections, Biology-Letters
Publications
- The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson
- Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
- Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation
- Massachusetts and the Civil War
- John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary
- Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett