Carol Sue Humphrey is a professor emerita of history at Oklahoma Baptist University where she taught for many years and the author of numerous books and articles on American history and journalism. She has been a member of the American Journalism Historians Association since 1986, serving for years as its secretary. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from UNC-Wilmington, a master’s degree in American history from Wake Forest University and a doctorate in American history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an expert on the press of the American Revolution and the early decades of the Republic, as well as the War of 1812 and the New England Press in early American history.
Her books and articles include:
- “The American Revolution and the Press: The Promise of Independence,” published in 2013;
- “The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833,” focusing on the 50 years after the Revolution during which the American press expanded and became involved in the partisanship that characterized most of this period;
- “The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800”; and
- “This Popular Engine: New England Newspapers During the American Revolution.”