Larry Eugene Rivers

Larry Eugene Rivers (born 1950) is a college president, history professor, and author in the U.S.[1]

Biography and education

He was born in the Sharon Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He has a Master's degree from Villanova. He received doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of London.[3] His thesis for the University of London was "Florida's Dissenters, Rebels, and Runaways: Territorial Days to Emancipation."[4]

He married Betty Jean Hubbard, who worked for the City of Tallahassee[5] and has two sons, a history professor and a lawyer. He is Baptist.[6]

Professional career

He served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida A&M University where he was a colleague of Canter Brown Jr. In 2006 he became the president of his alma mater Fort Valley State University. He held that role until 2013. He was a history professor at Valdosta State University (VSU) in Valdosta, Georgia from 2013 to 2017.

Bibliography

• Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001 (with Canter Brown Jr.)
• Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation University Press of Florida, 2009.[7]
• The Varieties of Women's Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post-Civil War Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. (with Canter Brown, co-ed.)
• Mary Edwards Bryan : Her Early Life and Works University Press of Florida, 2016. (with Canter Brown Jr.)
• Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida. University of Illinois Press, 2017.[8][9][10]
• Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

References

1. "Rivers, Larry E. 1950- (Larry Eugene Rivers) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
2. "Larry Eugene Rivers, Author Information, Published Books, Biography, Photos, Videos, and More ★".
3. "Black History Month: Dr. Larry Rivers". Florida State University Calendar.
4. Florida's Dissenters, Rebels, and Runaways : Territorial Days to Emancipation. OCLC 1124214831. Retrieved January 28, 2021 – via OCLC.
5. Cannon, Dymin (December 10, 2019). "Rivers making Tallahassee a better place for more than four decades".
6. "News Headlines - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 2010". www.famu.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27.
7. Larry Eugene Rivers (October 2008). Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3381-5.
8. Egerton, Douglas R. (2013). "Reviewed work: Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida, Larry Eugene Rivers". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 91 (4): 587–589. JSTOR 43487534 – via JSTOR.
9. Paquette, Robert L. (2014). "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida by Larry Eugene Rivers". Civil War History. 60 (2): 211–213. doi:10.1353/cwh.2014.0044. S2CID 140292964.
10. Dangerfield, David (March 2015). "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th-Century Florida. By Larry Eugene Rivers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 264 pp. $55.00)". Journal of Social History. 48 (3): 736–738. doi:10.1093/jsh/shv017.