Dwight Henderson
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Dwight Henderson, Professor of History, received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. As an Americanist, Dr. Henderson focuses on the period from the adoption of the Constitution to the post-Civil War era. He has taught courses in the history of the South, Jackson through Civil War periods, and United States constitutional history. He has also taught courses in the History of the Science and Technology in the U.S. and Environmental History of the U.S. Dr. Henderson has published two books and several articles dealing with the early legal history of the United States. Both books focus on the establishment of the federal court system and the development of federal criminal law. His first book uncovered new evidence that the Sedition Act of 1798 was applied to a number of the Fries rebels from Pennsylvania while his second book revealed that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was first applied during the War of 1812. His interest has continued in issues related to the Bill of Rights and in particular the first amendment. His first article dealt with the coal mining industry in Texas. During the 1990s he began researching the Texas Hill country, now broadened to include the entire Edwards Plateau. In Spring 2002, he served as a Fulbright lecturer at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, where he taught a graduate US Environmental History course to 43 students. This was the first environmental history course taught at that University. In Spring 2003 he taught a Comparative Environmental course for the graduate students at UT San Antonio.