Roger Davidson

Roger Davidson is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University.  He is the son and nephew of World War II veterans and a civilian-track graduate of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). 

As a graduate student at Howard University, he served as a research assistant on the African American Civil War Sailors Project; a multi-year Department of Defense and National Park Service funded effort to identify all possible sailors of African descent that served in the United States Navy during the Civil War as well as document their service. 

His master's thesis, "They've Never Been Known to Falter:" The First USCT in War and Peace, and Ph.D. dissertation, "Yankee Rivers, Rebel Shores, " takes a social history approach to Civil War military and naval studies.  He has served as a consultant to the Marine Corps Museum and Heritage Center and appeared in several documentaries on the Civil War and Emancipation.