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Office Hours:
Office:Library 351, ext 5343
Office hours by appointment.
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Litt.D., Washington and Lee University; Litt.D., St. Michael's College; Ph.D., Harvard University.
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Areas of Specialization
History of the American Civil War, Historiography
Courses Taught
U.S. History: 1861-1960; Readings in American History: The Civil War and American Historical Memory; Readings: The First New Nation; Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America: 1800-1848; Between the Wars, 1914-1941: End of American Innocence?; Great American Historians; Vernon L. Parrington Reconsidered; Life and Labor in the Old South; The Mind of the Old South.
Books
The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1979).
Ed., A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (Louisiana State University Press, 1986).
Ed., Jesse Carpenter, The South as a Conscious Minority (Southern Classics Reprint: University of South Carolina Press, 1990).