Fields:
American South, Civil War and Reconstruction, Teaching and Quantitative Methods.
I am a student of the American South and 19th century America with research interests in the Middle Period. I am currently finishing a full biography of George E. Spencer (1836-1893), the prominent and notorious carpetbagger who represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate from 1868 until 1879, but Spencer is also a quintessential vehicle for exploring a generation of ambitious, enterprising, footloose young men constantly on the outlook for the main chance. Among my other abiding interests is helping to prepare graduate students for teaching, and I lead a seminar on pedagogy each fall for all new teaching assistants.
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Selected Publications:
The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and Intersectional Relationships, 1868-1879 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983);
“We Shall Gladly Teach”: Preparing History Graduate Students for the Classroom (booklet: Washington: American Historical Association and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1999)
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Courses Taught:
AY 2005:
Spring
History 356 "The Old South"
History 360 "19th Century U.S. History"
AY 2004
Fall
History 200 "The American Experience"
History 300 "Approaches to History"
History 357 "The New South"
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