Syllabi
History 160: American MomentsHistory 260: Women in the United States to 1890
History 276: A House Divided: The United States 1830-1890
History/Environmental Studies 367: Peoples and Environments in the American West
Environmental Studies 260: Grasslands: Human History and Ecology of the American Plains
Upcoming Courses:
History 161: History, Narrative, Fiction: Telling Stories on America's Frontier
Fall 2007 (Freshman Seminar)
This
course explores narrative strategies for telling
about the past, including those used by contemporary participants,
professional
historians, popular non-fiction writers, and novelists. How do we
plot historical events? Where do we mark beginnings and ends,
and how does that shape our understanding of what happened? What
attention do authors give to
environment, setting, and character?
Course participants read an array of narratives and also write their
own, as we explore key episodes in the history of the Western United
States
between the 1830s and the 1930s.
Major emphasis is on cultural and military conflicts, land and natural
resources, and environmental history.
Website
Visit the New Spirits website for an extensive collection of images, documents, and interpretive materials from America's Gilded Age. The 1896 web project is now part of New Spirits.
Selected Publications
Books:
New
Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Angels
in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the
Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Selected Articles:
Domesticity versus Manhood Rights: Republicans,
Democrats, and 'Family Values' Politics, 1856-1896.
The Democratic Experiment:
New Directions in American Political History, ed. Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak,
and Julian E. Zelizer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Marsh Murdock and the Wily Women of Wichita: Domesticity Disputed in the Gilded
Age.
Kansas History (Spring
2002): 2-13.
Pioneers at the Polls: Woman Suffrage in the American
West.
Votes for Women: A Concise
History of the Suffrage Movement, ed. Jean H. Baker. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002. Pages 90-101.
Frances Folsom Cleveland.
In American First Ladies:
Their Lives and Their Legacy. 2nd ed. Ed. Lewis L. Gould. New
York: Routledge, 2001.
Mary Lease and the Sources of Populist Protest.
In The
Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Ed. Ballard
Campbell. New York: Scholarly
Resources, 2000.
Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Electoral
Campaigns in the Gilded Age.
In We Have Come to Stay: American Women and
Political Parties, 1880-1960. Ed. Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller, and
Elisabeth I. Perry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Politics as Social History: Political Cartoons in the
Gilded Age.
OAH Magazine of History 13.4 (Summer 1999): 11-5.
Popular Appeals in the 1896 Campaign.
Nebraska History
77 (Fall/Winter 1996): 129-39.
Work in Progress:
Spellbinder: The Life and Times of Mary E. Lease, People's Advocate