Current Semester
Spring 2013 Courses:
HIST 513: Social & Cultural History
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm (Spring 2013 semester) and by appointment
Office: Wilson 2-160
Phone: (406) 994-5201
Email: joanhoff1@aol.com
Research Interests
Legal Status of U.S. Women
Presidents
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Select Publications
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Faustian Diplomacy: From Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-521-71404-4)
Too Little, Too Late: Changes in the Legal Status of U.S. Women(New York: Rowman and Littlefield, in press)
The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary (Basic Books, 2000), 450pp.
The Nixon Presidency, co-edited with Dwight Ink (New York: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1996), 320 pp.
Voices of Irish Women: Past and Present, co-edited with Moureen Coulter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 285 pp.
Nixon Reconsidered (Basic Books, 1994), 475 pp.; paperback edition, 1995
Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women from the American Revolution to the Present (New York University Press, 1991), 525 pp.; updated paperback edition, 1994
For Adult Users Only: The Dilemma of Violent Pornography in the United States, co-edited with Susan Gubar (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 248 pp.
Rights of Passage: The Past, Present and Future of ERA, edited for OAH (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), 140 pp.
Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt, co-edited with Marjorie Lightman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), 266 pp.
Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Judicial Bias in Britain and the United States, co-authored with Albie Sachs (London: Martin Robertson & Co., 1978; reprinted, New York: The Free Press, 1979), 250 pp.
Herbert Clark Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (Little, Brown and Company, 1975), 300 pp.;reprinted Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1992
Report on the West Coast Women’s Studies Conference (Know, Inc., 1974), edited, 150 pp.
Ideology and Economics: U.S. Relations with the Soviet Union, 1918-1933 (University of Missouri Press, 1974), 192 pp.
The Twenties: The Critical Issues (Little, Brown and Company, 1971), edited, 200 pp.
American Business and Foreign Policy, 1920-1933 (University Press of Kentucky, 1971), 333 pp.







