Dr. Charles Johnson

African-American and American military history

Ph.D. History - Howard Univ.
M.A. History - Morgan State Univ.
B.A. History - Morgan State Univ.

Courses

Undergraduate: Civil War and Reconstruction; American Military Experience; Colloquium in US History; History of the US I & II

Graduate: Antebellum Free Blacks, 1800-1860; African Americans to 1900; African Americans in the Twentieth Century; Civil War and Reconstruction; Colloquium in US History; The US at War in the Twentieth Century; Directed Readings; Seminar in the Twentieth Century US; Supervised Research; Thesis Guidance

Select Publications

• African Americans and ROTC (McFarland, 2002).
• "If We Must Die": African Americans in the World Wars," in The African American Odyssey, ed. Debra Newman Ham (Library of Congress, 1998).
• African American Soldiers in the National Guard (Greenwood Press, 1992).
• "Frazier A. Boutelle," "Arthur Brooks," "Arthur Brown," "Christian Fleetwood," and "James Walker," in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, eds. R.W. Logan and M. Winston (Norton, 1982).
• "Pea Island: the United States Coast Guard's Black Life-Saving Station," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 3 (1982): 67-82.
• "Black Seminoles: their History and Quest for Land," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 1 (1980): 45-58.
• "The First Separate Battalion, District of Columbia National Guard," and "The 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the Siege of Fort Wagner," in The Afro-American Bicentennial Commission Report (Afro-American Bicentennial Commission, 1976).