American History from the Colonial Period through Reconstruction
Politics, Slavery and Race in America from 1790 to 1880
Education
B.A. History Montana State University
M.A. History University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. History University of Wisconsin-Madison
Select Publications
“President James Monroe’s Domestic Policies, 1817-1825: ‘To Advance the Best Interests
of Our Union,’” A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, Stuart Leibiger, ed.,
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. (Kent: Kent State University Press,
1998.)
“`Freedom and Liberty First, and the Union Afterwards,’ State Rights and the Wisconsin
Republican Party, 1854-1861,” in David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson, eds., Union
and Emancipation: Essays on Politics & Race in the Civil War Era. (Kent: Kent State
University Press, 1997.)
Awards
Research Fellowship, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, NY,
2005.
Research Fellow, The Gilder, Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and
Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven, CT, 2005.
Award of Merit, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for best book length study
of Wisconsin history published in 1998.
Department of History & Philosophy
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