Larry Rivers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
678-839-6038
lrivers@westg a.edu
Technology Learning Center - Room 3220
Fields of Study: African American Religion; Civil Rights Movement; United States, 1945-present
- B.A., Public Relations, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, 2004
- M.A., History, Vanderbilt University, 2006
- Ph.D., History, Vanderbilt University, 2010
Spring 2025 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-6694 (Graduate Student Writing) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E06 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 92D external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3363 (African-Amer History Snc 1865) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 06 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3362 (African-Amer History to 1865) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4469 (The Civil Rights Movement) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E07 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: E06 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3363 (African-Amer History Snc 1865) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2112 (U S History II (since 1865)) Section: 08 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3362 (African-Amer History to 1865) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
“Militant Reconciling Love”: Howard University’s Rankin Network and Martin Luther King, Jr., Journal of African American History 99 (Summer 2014).
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”: Virgil Darnell Hawkins’s Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle, Florida Historical Quarterly 86 (Winter 2008).
Florida’s Black Heritage, an introduction to the Florida Black Heritage Trail Magazine, published by the Florida Department of State, 2002.
The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law, 1949-2000, a book published by the Florida A&M University Foundation, Inc., 2000.
“They…Exalt Humbug at the Expense of Science and Truth”: Dr. John P. Wall and the Fight Against Yellow Fever in Late-Nineteenth Century Florida, a research article in The Sunland Tribune: Journal of the Tampa Historical Society, 1999.