Len Travers
len.travers@umassd.edu
Office: 508-999-8313
Len Travers (B.A. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 1980; M.A. Boston University, 1989; Ph.D. Boston University, 1992) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Before coming to UMass Dartmouth, Travers worked at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, and before that was Director of Interpretation at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His teaching focuses on the history of early America, and Northeast regional history.
Recent upper-level courses taught:
- HST 300 Piracy in the Atlantic World, 1500-1725
- HST 301 The American Colonial Era 1492-1763
- HST 305 Revolutionary America 1763-1826
- HST 307 Plymouth Colony 1600-1692
- HST 311 New England Maritime History
- HST 345 War and Society in America 1500-1865
Professor Travers also conducts American History survey courses HST 115 and HST 116; HST 201 Critical Skills for the History Major (required for all History students); and 400-level seminars. Recent seminar topics include:
- Nineteenth-Century New Bedford
- The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763
- Revolutionary Lives
His published works include Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic (1997); Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days (2006); and The Correspondence of John Cotton, Jr., 1640-1699 (2009).
Currently he is conducting research for a book on war, captivity, and survival during the French and Indian War.
Last Updated On: 10/29/08
