Keri Holt
Jan 27, 2020Reading These United States
Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830
University of Georgia Press 2019

Derek Litvak is a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland.
Derek Litvak is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland—College Park. His dissertation, "The Specter of Black Citizens: Race, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Early United States," examines how citizenship was used to both bolster the institution of slavery and exclude Black Americans from the body politic.