Education

B.A. (History) Kansas State University, 1967

M.A. (History) Louisiana State University, 1970

Ph.D. (History) Louisiana State University, 1974

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Southern Representatives and Economic Measures During Reconstruction:

A Quantitative and Analytical Study" (Director: Professor T. Harry Williams)

Teaching

Instructor, History Department, Louisiana State University, Summer 1973

Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Southern California, 1974-1981;

Associate Professor, 1981--

Lower division and general education courses:

HIST 200g The American Experience HIST 254g Southern Political Culture

Upper division courses:

HIST 300 Approaches to History HIST 352 The American Civil War

HIST 356 The Old South HIST 357 The New South

HIST 360 19th Century United States History

Graduate courses:

HIST 570 Historical Scholarship on Pre-1860 North America

HIST 575 Studies in Nineteenth Century United States History

HIST 675 Seminar in Nineteenth Century United States History

HIST 590 Quantitative Methods for Historians

Other courses:

FSEM 100 History of Political Cartooning (10 week Freshman Seminar)

MDA 205 Cultural Forms and Values II: The American South (multidisciplinary G.E. course)

MDA 250 Internship for Liberal Arts Majors: Work and Career--Theory and Practice

Grants and Awards

Warrick Memorial Fund Dissertation Fellowship, Louisiana State University, Spring 1973, Fall 1973

Louisiana State University Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1973-1974

U.S.C. Department of History Travel and Research Funds, 1975, 1977, 198l, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989

U.S.C. Faculty Research and Publication Fund Grant, 1975-1976, 1976-1977

U.S.C. College Research Fund Grants, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Haynes Foundation Summer Fellowship for Faculty, Summer 1977

Award for Distinguished Teaching, U.S.C. Division of Social Sciences and Communication, 1981

American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid for Basic Research, l983

U.S.C. Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Book Award for The South Returns to Congress, 1985

U.S.C. Mortar Board (National Senior Honor Society) Professor of the Month (February 1986); Latter Day Saint

Student Association, Outstanding Teaching (Spring 1999); Gamma Sigma Alpha (Greek Honor Society)

a Professor of the Year (Spring 2002); Alpha Lambda Delta (Freshman Honor Society) Favorite Professor

(Fall 2003)

U.S.C. President's Circle Faculty Award for Teaching, Research, and Service, 1985-1986

U.S.C. Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1990

U.S.C. Skull and Dagger Initiate, 1994 (teaching, mentoring, and service)

American Historical Association Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 1997

U.S.C. General Education Teaching Award, 1998-1999

U.S.C. Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, CET Professorship, 1997-1999

U.S.C. Phi Kappa Phi Initiate, 2000

Book

The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and Intersectional Relationships, 1868-1879 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983, 322 pp.), a collective biography and roll call analysis of the legislative behavior of the 25l Southerners who served in the U.S. House and Senate

during Reconstruction.

Booklet

“We Shall Gladly Teach”: Preparing History Graduate Students for the Classroom (Washington, DC:

American Historical Association and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1999), commissioned by the AHA Teaching Division, 76 pp.

Work in progress

"The Carpetbag Experience: George E. Spencer of Alabama, 1836-1893," a book-length study of the

well-traveled carpetbagger who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1868 to 1879.

Articles

“Political Cartoons,” in Donald H. Johnson (ed.), Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications

(four volumes, San Diego: Harcourt/Academic Press, 2003), III, 527-42 (includes sixteen partial page visuals).

"Rutherford Birchard Hayes," in Frank N. Magill (ed.) and John L. Loos (assoc. ed.), The American

Presidents: The Office and the Men (3 vols., Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, Inc., 1986), II, 379-95.

"Slaves and Free Negroes in Alexandria, 1850-1860," Louisiana History, X (Spring 1969), 147-65;

anthologized in Eugene D. Genovese and Elinor Miller (eds.), Plantation, Town, and County: Essays

on the Local History of American Slave Society (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974), 397-414.

"Municipal Politics and the Negro: Baton Rouge, 1865-1880," in Mark T. Carleton, Perry Howard, & Joseph B.

Parker (eds.), Readings in Louisiana Politics (Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing Division, 1975), 242-66.

Short Articles

“Getting Started” [digest of presentation for an American Historical Association panel, “Into the Classroom!

Teaching Tips and Strategies for TAs and Future Faculty” (2004) with papers by Peter Filene (UNC) and Rudolph Bell (Rutgers), edited by Ivonne Fuentes (Duke)], AHA Perspectives, 42 (October 2004), 22, 24.

"Hugh McCulloch" and "George E. Spencer" in John A. Garraty (gen. ed.), American National Biography

(24 vols., New York: American Council of Learned Societies & Oxford University Press, 1999), XIV,

948-50; XX, 448-49.

“Freedmen’s Bureau,” in Paul Boyer (ed. in chief), The Oxford Companion to United States History

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 291-92.

"California," "Electoral Commission of 1877," "Electoral Count Act of 1887," "Force Acts,"

"Johnson, Andrew," "Radical Republicans," "Reconstruction," "Joint Committee on Reconstruction,"

"Stevens, Thaddeus," and "Thirteenth Amendment,” in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, &

Morton Keller (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (4 vols., New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1995), 250-51, 730-32, 732-33, 856-57, 1175-77, 1659-60, 1679-84, 1684-85, 1890-92,

1959-62.

"John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry," in Frank N. Magill (ed.) and John L. Loos (assoc. ed.), Great Events

from History, American Series (3 vols., Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, Inc., 1975), II, 9l8-24.

Papers and Commentaries

“Getting Started,” paper delivered in a panel, “Into the Classroom! Teaching Tips and Strategies for TAs and

Future Faculty,” American Historical Association Convention, Washington, January 2004.

Chair and commentator on a panel “Teaching Teaching: Training Graduate Students in the Art of

Teaching,” American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, January 2000.

Chair and organizer of a panel "The Future Professoriate: Preparing Graduate Students for the Classroom,"

American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, January 1995.

"New Perspectives on Middle Period Politics," paper/commentary on two papers in a session "Civil-Military

Relations During the Civil War Era," Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 1991.

Discussant in a session "Developing the History of Congress," Social Sciences History Association

Convention, Chicago, November 1985.

Commentary on three papers in a session "Reconstruction Republicans of the Southwest: A Reappraisal,"

American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, December 1984.

"The Carpetbagger as Senator: George E. Spencer of Alabama," delivered at the American Historical

Association, Pacific Coast Branch Convention, Los Angeles, August 1980.

"Southern Republican Congressmen: An Economic Perspective," delivered at the Southern Historical

Association Convention, St. Louis, November 1978.

Reviews

John Esten Cooke, Surry of Eagle's Nest (1866), and John Esten Cooke, The Virginia Comedians (1854), in

Frank N. Magill (ed.), Masterplots: American Fiction Series (12 vols., Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press,

Inc., 1976), X, 6357-58, XII, 695l.

Dorothy Sterling (ed.), The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction (1976),

in Annals of Iowa, XLIV (Summer 1977), 71-72.

James Tice Moore, Two Paths to the New South: The Virginia Debt Controversy, 1870-1883 (1974),

and Robert B. Jones, Tennessee at the Crossroads: The State Debt Controversy, 1870-1883 (1977), in

Civil War History, XXIII (September 1977), 281-84.

Project Review for the Museums and Historical Organizations Program in the Division of Public Programs

of the National Endowment for the Humanities, October 1977.

Glenn M. Linden, Politics or Principle: Congressional Voting on the Civil War Amendments and Pro-Negro

Measures, 1838-1869 (1976), in Journal of American History, LXIV (December 1977), 798-99.

Project Review for the Media Program, Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the

Humanities, January 1979.

With John E. Wills, Jr.: Leila Zenderland (ed.), Recycling the Past: Popular Uses of American History

(1978), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, X (Autumn 1979), 363-64.

Norman E. Tutorow, Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest

(1978), in Southern California Quarterly, LXII (Spring 1980), 102-103.

Patrick W. Riddleberger, 1866: The Critical Year Revisited (1979), in Journal of Southern History, XLVI

(May 1980), 307-308.

Prerevision review for D. C. Heath and Company, October 1980.

Project Review for the General Research Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, August 198l.

Project Review for the General Research Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, April 1982.

Manuscript referee for Princeton University Press, May 1982.

Durwood T. Stokes, Company Shops: The Town Built by a Railroad (198l), in American Historical Review,

LXXXIX (February 1983), 189-90.

Prerevision review for Prentice-Hall, Inc., March 1984.

John Shelton Reed, One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture (1982), in The Public Historian,

VI (Fall 1984), 153-56.

Manuscript referee for West Publishing Company, Inc., March 1984.

Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984), in North Carolina

Historical Review, LXII (January 1985), 98-99.

Manuscript referee for University of Georgia Press, April 1985.

Richard N. Current, Northernizing the South (1983), in Alabama Review, XXXVIII (April 1985), 141-43.

Proposal referee for Prentice-Hall, Inc., September 1985.

Prerevision review for Harper & Row, Publishers, November 1985.

Project review for the Editions Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, December 1985.

Richard F. Bensel, Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980 (1984), in American

Historical Review, XC (December 1985), 128l-82.

Manuscript review for West Publishing Company, January 1986.

Manuscript referee for University of Mississippi Press, January 1986.

Manuscript review for West Publishing Company, June 1986.

Prerevision review for Houghton Mifflin Company, June 1986.

Project Review for the Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities,

December 1986.

Prerevision review for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., July 1987.

Bibliographical and source review for Book of Days (Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, l987), 98-100.

Proposal referee for D. C. Heath & Company, March 1988.

Richard Abbott, The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1880 (1986), in Civil War History, XXXIV

(September 1988), 281-83.

Prerevision review for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., July l989.

David W. Bowen, Andrew Johnson and the Negro (1989), in West Tennessee Historical Society Papers,

XLIV (1990), 86-87.

Prerevision review for McGraw-Hill, September 1991.

Allan G. Bogue, The Congressman's Civil War (1989), in Pennsylvania History, in press.

Joseph A. Fry, John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy (1992), review essay in

Hayes Historical Journal, completed, HHJ has suspended operations.

Manuscript review for McGraw-Hill, June 1993.

Prerevision review for Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, December 1994.

Mark Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (1993) in Civil War History, LX (December 1994), 337-38.

William Warren Rogers, Jr., Black Belt Scalawag: Charles Hays and the Southern Republicans in the

Era of Reconstruction (1993) in American Historical Review, C (February 1995), 238-39.

Manuscript review for Harcourt Brace, October 1997.

Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (2000), in Journal

of Southern History, LXIX (February 2003), 203-205.

Thomas Adams Upchurch, Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow (2004),

in Journal of Southern History, in preparation.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Direction:

Director, 18 undergraduate honors theses (two in progress)

Chair, 7 M.A. committees

Member, 15 M.A. committees

Chair/Dissertation Director, 7 Ph.D. committees

Second or outside reader, 21 dissertations (5 in progress)

Member, 70 Ph.D. committees (total including chair; 7 in progress)

History Department Service:

Creator and Coordinator, History Teaching Assistant Training Program (Fall 1988 to present)

(10-12 session seminar each fall for new teaching assistants)

Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee to rewrite the undergraduate HIST major (Fall 2000 to Spring 2002);

Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee (Fall 1981-Spring 1988; Fall 1991-Spring 1994);

Fall 1995-Fall 1996 (merged with Graduate Studies Committee, 1992-1994); member (Fall 2000—)

Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 1987-Summer 1989; Fall 1992-Summer 1994), member (Fall 1999-

Spring 2000)

Executive Committee (Fall 1976-Spring 1977; Fall 1984-Spring 1985; Fall 1987-Spring 1988;

Fall 1995-Spring 1996; Fall 1997-Spring 1998; Fall 1998-Spring 1999, Fall 2004-Spring 2005)

Search Committee, Latin American Colonial History (Fall 2000-Spring 2001)

Search Committee, American History Senior Positions (Fall 1999-Spring 2000; Fall 2001-Spring 2002;

Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

Search Committee, American West History (Fall 1992-Spring 1993; Chair, Fall 1991—canceled)

Chair, Search Committee, African American History (1981-1982; member, 1980-81)

Search Committee, Russian History (Fall 1975-Spring 1977)

Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta (International History Honorary Society), 1976-1985; Co-

Advisor with Michael Robinson (1986 to 1995); National Best Chapter Award, 1994-1995;

Advisor, 1999-2001

Faculty Advisor, History Graduate Students Association (Fall 1988 to Spring 1995)

Undergraduate Honors Committee (Spring 1993), Honors theses reader (Spring 2002)

Graduate Program Review Committee (Fall 1983); Discussion Leader, History Department Retreat

(Fall 1983); Self-Study Committee (Spring 1986)

Coordinator, History Mutual Learning Program (Fall 1985-Fall 1989)

(22 day-long sessions with high school AP/honors history teachers)

Coordinator, History Day/LA Senior Division Paper Judging (Spring semesters, 1986 to 1997)

Session leader, History Department and LA Unified School District Conference (4/22 & 5/6/89)

on “Implementing the California History-Social Science Framework”

Co-Chair, American Historical Association Local Arrangements Committee (Fall 1980-Fall 1981)

Graduate Essay Award and Ford Research Award Committees (Spring 1975, Spring 1980)

Chair, Map and Equipment Committee (Fall 1975-Fall 1976)

College and University Service:

Director, University Interdisciplinary Majors Program (Fall 1997 to present)

Chair, Faculty Governing Board, University Center for Excellence in Teaching (Fall 1997-Spring

1998)

Chair, Faculty Fellows, University Center for Excellence in Teaching (Fall 1998-Spring 1999)

Faculty Fellow, University Center for Excellence in Teaching (Summer 1997-Spring 1999)

Teaching Assistant Training, group leader (August 1997, 1998, January 1998, 1999); University

New Faculty Orientation, group leader on teaching, (August 1997, 1998); Preparing Future Faculty

workshop (mock interviews and job presentations), group leader (January 1998, January 1999);

Evaluation and Assessment workshop, participant (March 1998); Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Reception, host (March 1998, March 1999); Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Students

workshop, leader (April 1998); confidential consultant, teaching review of a faculty member, report,

at faculty member’s and dean’s request, a USC School (Fall 2001-Summer 2002)

University Committee on Academic Review (UCAR), Internal Review Committee for Rossier School

of Education (Fall 1999, Spring, Summer 2000)

School of Education, Committee on Credentialing and Masters in Teaching, member (Spring, Fall 2003)

Chair, Academic Senate/University Committee on Undergraduate Education (Fall 2000-Spring 2001)

Chair, Selection Committee for University Innovative Teaching Awards (Spring 2001)

Chair, University Graduation and Retention Committee (Fall 1995-Spring 1996)

Chair, Phi Kappa Phi Selection Committee for Graduate and Undergraduate Awards for Original

Scholarly Work (Fall 2001-Spring 2002), member (Fall 2003-Spring 2004, Fall 2004-Spring 2005)

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Governing Board (Spring 2002 to present)

Academic Senate/University Committee on Undergraduate Education (Fall 1996-Spring 2000)

Academic Senate Committee on Academic Integrity (Fall 1999-Spring 2000)

Academic Senate Committee on University Records and Archives (Fall 1999)

Faculty Advisory Committee, Student Athlete Academic Services (Spring 2001-Spring 2004)

Academic Culture Initiative; faculty leader for formation of study groups based on

residential halls, History 200g (Fall 2001)

Search Committee, Leavey Library, two faculty positions (Spring-Summer 1998)

Council of Academic Advisors, Retreat Presentation on IDM Program (Spring 1998)

Academic Senate White Paper Committee on Boyer Commission Report (Summer 1998)

University Committee on Advanced Placement Credit (Fall 1997)

Chair, Faculty Governing Board, College Student Advisement (Fall 1990-Spring 1994); Member,

College Student Service Planning (Summer 1992); six Grade Dispute Panels (Spring 1994 to present)

General Education Program, Social Sciences Representative on the full Committee (1987-1990)

Chair, Ethical Approaches Subcommittee (Fall 1987-Spring 1988; Fall 1989-Spring 1990)

Chair, American Public Life Subcommittee (Fall 1988-Spring 1989)

Member, Appeals Committee (1987-1990)

Member, American Public Life Subcommittee (Fall 1981-Spring 1984)

Chair, Social Sciences Division Undergraduate Recruitment Committee (Fall 1986-Spring 1994)

member (1984-1986, 1988-1989); Recruiting calls and recruiting trips with Admissions to area

high schools (1982-83. 1086-87); Faculty speaker at Trojan forums (Spring 1988, Spring

1989); Lecturer, Preview USC Program (Spring 1992)

College Committee on Recruitment and Enrollment Management (Fall 1987-Spring 1988; Fall

1989-Fall 1991)

College Undergraduate Advisory Committee (Fall 1991-Spring 1993)

College Faculty Mentoring Program, (Fall 1989, Fall 1990, Fall 1991)

University Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid (Spring, Fall 1989)

Chair, University Undergraduate Merit Scholarship Subcommittee of the University Committee on

Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aide (Spring, Summer, Fall 1989, Spring 1990)

Non-Resident Faculty Fellow, Marks Hall (Fall 2004-Spring 2005)

Faculty Advisor, College Learning Communities Program (Spring 1999-Spring 2001);

faculty speaker (Spring 1999); History 200g Learning Communities course; 12 students (Fall 1999); 18

students (Fall 2000); 8 students (Fall 2001); 12 students (Fall 2002); 17 students (Fall 2003), 21 students (Fall

2004)

Annenberg School of Communication, TA Training Program, session leader (Fall 1998, Fall 1999)

College Trustee and Presidential Scholar Interviews (each Spring, 1998--)

College Trustee Scholars Selection Committee (Spring 1994)

Chair, Social Sciences Division Trustees Scholarship Selection Committee (Spring 1989)

Chair, LAS Transfer Scholars Selection Committee (Summer 1989)

College Committee on Department/School Admissions Standards (Spring 1987)

College Teaching Assistant Training, faculty leader for Economics, American Studies and Ethnicity, and History

(two day, front-loaded training in August 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004—)

College Teaching Assistant Training, group leader (August 1997)

Advisory Committee, University Center for Teaching Excellence (Fall 1993-Fall 1996)

Social Sciences Division Committee on Teaching Excellence (Spring, Fall 1979, Spring 1984,

Spring 1985)

Social Sciences Division Teaching Assistant Training Program, presenter (Summer 1990)

Social Sciences Raubenheimer Award Selection Committee (Spring 1981)

School of Engineering, Freshman Engineering Orientation Course, advisor (Spring 2004)

School of Engineering, External Review Committee interviewee re: General Education (Fall 2003)

School of Engineering, Mentoring Training Program, speaker (Summer 1999)

Social Sciences Dean’s Search Committee (Fall 1991-Spring 1992)

University Search Committee for Director of Financial Aid (Fall 1989)

College Search Committee for LAS Dean of Student Services and Special Program (Spring 1989)

Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Selection Committee (Spring 1993)

College Committee on Department/School Admissions Standards (Spring 1987)

Joint Education Project, HIST 200g (Fall 1979 to present)

College Committee on Medicine and the Humanities (Spring 1982)

University Summer Orientation Programs (Summer 1976, Summer 1991)

University Extended Education Committee (Fall 1984-Spring 1985)

College Freshman Only Program, HIST 200g (Fall 1990)

Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Majors Program (late Fall 1981-Spring 1982)

College Academic Innovation Screening Committee (Spring 1981)

Student-Faculty Relations Committee (Fall 1976-Spring 1977)