Curriculum Vitae:
Patrick D. Reagan

Contact Information

Patrick D. Reagan
Tennessee Technological University
Department of History
Box 5064
Cookeville, Tennessee 38505
(931) 372-3342 (personal office)
(931) 372-3332 (History Department office)
e-mail: preagan@tntech.edu

446 Freeze Street
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
(931) 528-3998

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), 1982
• M.A., Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), l976
• A.B., Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), 1975
  Honors in History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Publications

Books

• History and the Internet: A Guide (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002) with accompanying web site.
• Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). A volume in the series the Political Development of the American Nation: Studies in Politics and History, edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. Nominated for five national awards. Tied for Second Place for the Ellis Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians, 2001.
• American Journey: World War I and the Jazz Age (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group/ Primary Source Microfilm, 2000), a multimedia history of the United States, 1890-1929, which includes 17 interpretive essays, over 200 primary source documents with head notes, 300 pictures with captions, audio and video clips, period music, an annotated timeline, bibliographies, maps, and multiple search functions. Available in CD-ROM and by subscription at American Journey Online.
• Introduction for reprint of 1938 work, Horace Coon, Money to Burn: Great American Foundations and Their Money (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1990), in Philanthropy and Society Series edited by Richard Magat.
• Co-editor with Frank Annunziata and Roy T. Wortman, For the General Welfare: Essays in Honor of Robert H. Bremner (New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris: Peter Lang, 1989). Author of the Preface, an article, "Governmental Planning in the Late New Deal," and a bibliography to this collection of essays.
• Co-editor with Jerold E. Brown, Voluntarism, Planning, and the State: The American Planning Experience, 1914-1946, with a foreword by Ellis W. Hawley, (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1988). Author of Preface, an article, "The Organizational Nexus of New Deal National Planning," and "American Planning: A Bibliographical Essay" to this work.

Articles

• Essay on "Planning," in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, ed. Robert S. McElvaine (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003), Vol. 2, pp. 757-762.
• Entries on "Alvin Hansen," "Gardiner C. Means," "National Resources Planning Board," and "Reorganization Act of 1939," in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, ed. Robert S. McElvaine (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003), Vol. 1, p. 421 and Vol. 2, pp. 603-604, 688-689, 813-814.
• "The Election of 1936," in American Presidential Campaigns and Elections, 3 vols., eds. Ballard C. Campbell and William G. Shade (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003), pp. 738-756.
• "Business and the Economy," chapter in American Decades Primary Sources, 1990-1999, ed. Cynthia Rose (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004), pp. 45-93. Selection, editing, introduction, and significance of fifteen primary sources with bibliographies on the economic history of the 1990's.
• "Business and the Economy," chapter in American Decades Primary Sources, 1980-1989, ed. Cynthia Rose (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004), pp. 73-120. Selection, editing, introduction, and significance of fifteen primary sources with bibliographies on the economic history of the 1980's.
• Entries on "The Surge of Public Employee Unionism," "Labor Law Reform and Its Enemies," "Low Pay, Bossy Bosses Kill Kids' Enthusiam for Food-Service Jobs" and "An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980s," in "Business and the Economy," chapter in American Decades Primary Sources, 1970-1979, ed. Cynthia Rose (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004), pp. 80-83, 106-110, 110-115, and 115-118. Introduction and significance of four primary sources with bibliographies on the economic history of the 1970's.
• Entries on "What the Public Thinks About Big Business, " Consumer Credit: High But Safe," and "Convention Expels Teamsters," in "Business and the Economy," chapter American Decades Primary Sources, 1950-1959 (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004), 66-70, 73-75, 78-81. Introduction and significance of three primary sources with bibliographies on the economic history of the 1950's.
• "African Americans in World War II," in American Journey: World War II (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002).
• "The U.S. Home Front in World War II," in American Journey: World War II (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002).
• "The Legacy of World War II," in American Journey: World War II (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002).
• All bibliographies, web site selections, and museum information for all twenty-one chapters in American Journey: World War II (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002). Topics include "From Poverty to Prosperity: The Coming of World  War  II," "Isolationism  and American Entry into World War II," "Pearl Harbor,"  "War in  the  Pacific,"  "The War in Europe,  Africa,  and  the  Mediterranean," "Battles and Campaigns," "The Wartime Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt," "The Military Commanders," "The Wartime Conferences--1941-1945," "Enemy Aliens: Japanese Americans in World War II," "Intelligence  and Espionage," "Hollywood, Propaganda, and World War  II,"   "Nazi Germany," "Weapons of World War II," "The U.S. Home Front in World War II," "African   Americans in World War II," "Women During World War  II,"  "World Leaders," "The Atomic Bomb," "The End of the War," and "The Legacy of World War II."
• "Fighting the Good War at Home," Reviews in American History 25 (September 1997): 481-487, review of John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front.
• "Republicans and Realignment: The New Deal Years," Reviews in American History 24 (March 1996): 132-137, review of Clyde P. Weed, The Nemesis of Reform: The Republican Party During the New Deal.
• Harriman Strike of 1933-1934," and Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority," in Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, ed. Carroll Van West. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1998.
• With W. Calvin Dickinson. "Business, Labor, and the Blue Eagle: The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike of 1933-1934," in Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the Culture, ed. Carroll Van West. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
• With W. Calvin Dickinson. "Business, Labor, and the Blue Eagle: The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike of 1933-1934," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Fall 1996): 240-255, special issue, "Modern Tennessee, 1920-1970," one of five Tennessee statehood bicentennial issues.
• "From Depression to Depression: Hooverian National Planning, 1921-1933," in Business-Government Cooperation, 1917-1932: The Rise of Corporatist Policies, ed. Robert F. Himmelberg, Vol. V in Business and Government in America Since 1870 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), pp. 341-366.
• "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (G.I. Bill)," in Great Events from History, II: Business and Commerce (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1994), pp. 845-850.
• Entries on Lauchlin Currie, Marriner Eccles, Alvin Hansen, National Resources Planning Board, recession of 1937-1938, Temporary National Economic Committee in Dictionary of United States Economic History, eds. James S. Olson with Susan Wladaver-Morgan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992).
• "The Withholding Tax, Beardsley Ruml, and Modern American Public Policy," Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives 24 (Spring 1992); 18-31.
• "Strategy and History: Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," The Journal of Military History 53 (July 1989): 291-306.
• "From Depression to Depression: Hooverian National Planning, l921- 1933," Mid-America 70 (1988): 35-60.
• Entries on Eveline Burns, Lauchlin Currie, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Alvin Hansen, Charles Edward Merriam, National Resources Planning Board, recession of 1937-1938, Temporary National Economic Committee in Historical Dictionary of the New Deal, ed. James S. Olson (Westport,Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1985).
• "The Ideology of Social Harmony and Efficiency: Workmen's Compensation in Ohio, 1904-1919," Ohio History 90 (1981): 317-331.

Electronic and New Media Publications

• The Presidency of George W. Bush: An Historical Bibliography, December 2006
• Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and Election of 2004, October 2004
• "The Rise and Fall of Presidential Power?" review essay on Herbert S. Parmet, Presidential Power from the New Deal to the New Right on New Deal scholarly list, July 2002.
• "Industrial Unionism: A Chapter in American Democracy," module for Retrieving the American Past: A Customized U.S. History Reader (Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003, 2004).
• "Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions" website at http://www.tntech.edu/history/tnbudget.html, Spring 2002.
• "Labor History on the Internet," web page designed for use by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) website at http://www.lawcha.org/, Spring 2001.
• Author of sixteen entries in History Resource Center: United States (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000).
• Review essay on Brian Balogh, ed., Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade on H-Pol Internet list, May 1998, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.
• Review essay on J. Richard Piper, Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933 on H-Pol Internet list, March 1998, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.
• Michael J. Bennett, When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America on H-State Internet list, May 1997, part of the H-Net Reviews Project.
• Editor, Guidebook for New Faculty at Tennessee Technological University, AAUP, TTU Chapter, May 1995, June 2000 print edition and online edition regularly revised.

Computers, the Internet, and Instructional Technology Work

• National Board of Editors, History Resource Center: United States and History Resource Center: Modern World, Macmillan Reference USA, 2003-present.
• "Labor History on the Internet," web page designed for use by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) website at http://www.lawcha.org/, Spring 2001.
• Focus group participant for the World History Resource Center site, the Gale Group, American Historical Association convention, Boston, MA, January 6, 2001.
• Participant in Pearson Publishing focus group on world wide web sites and history instruction, Organization of American Historians convention, St. Louis, MO, March 31, 2000.
• "Multimedia History on Compact Disc," New Media Classroom Institute, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, Nasville, TN, May 25, 2000.
• Resource person and participant in "The Blues, Bluegrass, and Blue Suede Shoes: Southern Culture in the New Media Classroom," New Media Classroom Institute, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 22-26, 2000.
• Participation in Syllabus Central, History Matters project sponsored by the Center for History and the New Media and the American Social History Project.
• Panelist on "Moderating Lists and Building the H-Net WWW: A Roundtable Discussion," Envisioning the Future: Creating the Humanities Classroom of the 21st Century, H-Net Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 25-28, 1997.
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences World Wide Web Site National Committee, Fall 1995-1997.
• Editorial design, creation and maintenance of H-SHGAPE web site for the Society for Historians of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Spring 1995-present.
• Editorial design, creation, and maintenance of Tennessee Technological University, History world wide web site, 1994-present.
• Editorial design, creation, and maintenance of Tennessee Technological University, American Association of University Professors world wide web site, 1995-present.
• Editorial design, creation, and maintenance of Tennessee Technological University, College of Arts and Sciences world wide web site, 1995-1997.
• Editorial design, creation, and maintenance of Tennessee Technological University, Reserve Officer Training Corps world wide web site, 1996-1997.
• Editorial design, creation, and maintenance of Cumberland Microcomputer Users' Group world wide web Site, 1996-present.

Other Publications

• Student Guide to Accompany The Great Republic: A History of the American People by Bailyn, Dallek, Davis, Donald, Thomas, Wood, Fourth Edition. (Lexington, Ma.: D.C. Heath, 1992), 2 volumes.
• America and the War with Iraq: A Bibliography for Instructors (Lexington, Ma.: D.C. Heath, 1991). A study guide and bibliography for lecture preparation and classroom discussions.
• "Workers Face Industrialization: The Nation and Community Levels," in Tennessee in American History, eds. Larry H. Whiteaker and W. Calvin Dickinson (Needham Heights, Ma.: Ginn Press, 1989).

Honors, Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

• Selected for Who's Who in American Education (1995, 1997, 2007); Who's Who Among America's Teachers & Educators (2007); Directory of American Scholars (2003); Who's Who in the South and Southwest, twenty-third through twenty-sixth editions (1994-2000); Who's Who in the World (1996); and Dictionary of International Biography (1994, 1995, 1998).
• Selected for National Board of Editors, History Resource Center: United States and History Resource Center: Modern World, Macmillan Reference USA, 2003-present.
• Nominated for University Caplenor Faculty Research Award, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002.
• Winner of first Dean's Award for Innovative Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Tennessee Technological University for work with Tennessee Tech History Web Site, August 1997.
• Tennessee Tech History site referenced in Dennis A. Trinkle, Dorothy Auchter, Scott A. Merriman, and Todd E. Larson, The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Sources (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997); Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman, The History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Sources (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000); Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman, The History Highway 3.0: A Guide to Internet Resources (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002); and Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 2000).
• Winner of Faculty Non-Instructional Grant (sabbatical leave) to work on writing for book manuscript, 1994-1995.
• Selected for Outstanding Faculty in Honors Award, Tennessee Technological University Honors Program, 1992-1993.
• Nominated for Outstanding Faculty in Honors Award, Tennessee Technological University Honors Program, 2000-2001.
• Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Tennessee Technological University, 1992-1993, 1995-1996.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Iowa, 1984.
• Two grants from the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for research at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1979, 1980.
• Four-Year University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1975-79.
• Henry G. Dalton American Studies Fellowship (Kenyon College), 1975-76.
• Four-Year Kenyon College Sponsored, National Merit Scholar, 1971-75.
• Grant from Committee for Faculty Research, Tennessee Technological University for research on postwar planning during World War II, 1993-1994.
• Grant from Committee for Faculty Research, Tennessee Technological University for research on the voluntary tradition in America, 1990-1991.
• Four grants from the Committee for Faculty Research, Tennessee Technological University for research on American national planning, 1985-1989.
• Grant from Dean's Office, College of the Arts and Sciences, Tennessee Technological University, for completion of editorial work on Voluntarism, Planning, and the State, 1986.
• Grant from the Committee for Faculty Research, Tennessee Technological University for research at the Herbert C. Hoover Library, 1983-1984.
• Two grants from the Foster Rhea Dulles Memorial Fund, Department of History, Ohio State University for research at the University of Chicago Library , 1980, and the Library of Congress, 1979.
• Grant from the Graduate Student Alumni Research Awards, Graduate School, Ohio State University for research at the Library of Congress and the National Archives, 1979.

Paper Presentations

• Presenter, "Graduate Schools in the Digital Age: Research and Publication," Organization of American Historians convention, Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 2003.
• "Multimedia History on Compact Disc," New Media Classroom Institute, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 25, 2000.
• Participant in Political History Workshop, "State and Society" session, Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, MO, April 1, 2000.
• Chair, "Military Operations and Leaders: America in World War II," Ohio Valley History Conference, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, October 22, 1999.
• Invited participant at "The New Deal: Then and Now" conference, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, June 4-6, 1998.
• Panelist on "Moderating Lists and Building the H-Net WWW: A Roundtable Discussion," at "Envisioning the Future: Creating the Humanities Classroom of the Future," Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 25-28, 1997.
• Panelist on "The Associative State: A Roundtable on the New History of Philanthropy, Social Science, and Twentieth Century Political Economy," Economic and Business Historical Society convention, Savannah, GA, April 27, 1996.
• "Beardsley Ruml, the Withholding Tax, and Modern American Public Policy," Tennessee Historians Conference, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, September 21-22, 1990.
• Invited participant at conference on "Private Action and Social Policy," Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 14-16, 1989.
• Moderator and discussant in session, "Perspectives on Modern Planning and Public Policy," Economic and Business Historical Society convention, Charleston, South Carolina, April 29, 1989.
• "Domestic National Planning in the New Era of the 1920s," Southwestern Social Science Association convention, San Antonio, Texas, March 20, 1986.
• "Governmental Planning in the Late New Deal," Social Science History Association convention, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1983.
• "The Organizational Nexus of American National Planning, l900-l937," Organization of American Historians convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 8, 1983.

Signed Book Reviews

• Jeffry A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and in the Twentieth Century in Business History Review 82 (Spring 2008): 200-202.
• Alonzo L. Hamby, For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930's in American Historical Review 110 (December 2005): 1554.
• Patrick J. Hearden, Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order During World War II in Business History Review 79 (Autumn 2005): 642-645.
• Jeff Singleton, The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression in Journal of American History 88 (September 2002): 692-693.
• Project WhistleStop: Truman Digital Archive Project in Journal of American History 88 (March 2002): 1631 and History Matters (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University).
• Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 in Business History (United Kingdom) 43 (July 2001): 157-158.
• Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal Coalition: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Spring 2001): 60-61.
• Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 in Journal of Economic History 59 (March 1999): 239-240.
• Staughton Lynd, ed. "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early Thirties in Ohio History 107 (1998): 102-103.
• Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman in The Alabama Review 50 (July 1997): 224-225.
• Ballard C. Campbell, The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present in Journal of Economic History 56 (September 1996): 752-753.
• Robert H. Zieger, The CIO, 1935-1955 in Ohio History 105 (1996):110-111.
• William G. Scott, Chester I. Barnard and the Guardians of the Managerial State in The Journal of American History 80 (March 1994): 1513-1514.
• Richard A. Reiman, The New Deal and American Youth: Ideas and Ideals in a Depression Decade in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 85 (1994): 41.
• Robert L. Daugherty, Weathering the Storm: The Ohio National Guard in the Interwar Years, 1919-1940 in Ohio History 103 (1994): 81-82.
• Michael Bradshaw, The Appalachian Regional Commission: Twenty-Five Years of Government Policy in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 52 (Winter 1993): 269-270.
• Douglas Carl Abrams, Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal in The Historian 55 (Summer 1993): 775-776.
• John W. Sloan, Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity in American Historical Review 97 (October 1992): 1309-1310.
• Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South, ed. Robert H. Zieger in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 51 (Summer 1992): 128-129.
• Judith Sealander, Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929 and Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City in Labor History 33 (Spring 1992): 308-311.
• The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences, eds. Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple in The Journal of American History 78 (December 1991): 1040-1041.
• Priscilla Long, Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry in The Historian 53 (Winter 1991): 373-374.
• Hindy Lauer Schachter, Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation in Business History Review 64 (Winter 1990): 787-789.
• Richard J. Altenbaugh, Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s in Now and Then 7 (Fall 1990): 42-43.
• George W. Knepper, Ohio and its People in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114 (October 1990): 577-578.
• Keith Dix, What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining in The Historian 52 (May 1990): 513-514.
• D. Jerome Tweton, The New Deal at the Grassroots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota in Journal of Economic History 49 (September 1989): 784-785.
• Carl E. Krog and William R. Tanner, eds., Herbert Hoover and the Republican Era: A Reconsideration in Business History Review 61 (1987): 151-152.
• Donald T. Critchlow, The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society in Journal of Economic History 47 (1987): 284-285.
• Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 46 (1987): 120-121.
• Robert L. Morlan, Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League,1915-1922 and Patrick K. Coleman and Charles R. Lamb, comps., The Nonpartisan League, 1915-22: An Annotated Bibliography in Ohio History 96 (1987): 166-168.
• John Earl Haynes, Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota's DFL in Ohio History 94 (1985): 221-223.
• James C. Cobb, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1980 in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 43 (1984): 87-89.
• Marion Clawson, New Deal Planning in Business History Review 56 (1982): 113-116.
• Philip W. Warken, A History of the National Resources Planning Board: 1933-1943 in Business History Review 55 (1981): 110-112.
• H. Roger Grant, Insurance Reform: Consumer Action in the Progressive Era in Ohio History, 89 (1980) 360-362.
• Ronald Leslie Numbers, Almost Persuaded: American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920 in Ohio History 88 (1979): 226-228.

Postgraduate Seminars and Workshops

• "The Blues, Bluegrass, and Blue Suede Shoes: Southern Culture in the New Media Classroom," New Media Classroom Institute, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 22-26, 2000.
• "The New Rationality: Planners and Politicians in Wartime and Interwar America, 1917-1945," National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, University of Iowa, directed by Lawrence E. Gelfand and Ellis W. Hawley, June-August l984.
• "Military History Workshop," United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June-July 1983.

Fields of Specialization

• Twentieth Century United States History
• United States Economic (Business and Labor) History
• United States Military History
• History, Computers, the Internet, and Instructional Technology
• Modern European History

Teaching Experience

Teaching at TTU

• Professor in History, 1992-Present
  Tennessee Technological University
• Associate Professor in History, 1987-1992
• Assistant Professor in History, 1982-1987

Courses Taught at TTU

• U.S. survey: American History, 1607-1877
• U.S. survey: American History, 1607-1877 (large section)
• U.S. survey: American History, 1877-Present
• U.S. survey: American History, 1877-Present (large section)
• U.S. survey: American History, 1877-Present (Summer session)
• Honors course in U.S. History: American History, 1607-1877
• Honors course in U.S. History: American History, 1877-Present
• Historical Methods
• Economic History of the United States: Business and Labor History
• American Military History
• The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945
• Postwar America, 1945-Present

Teaching at Kenyon College

• Visiting Instructor in History
  Kenyon College, 1980-1982
• U.S. survey in one-year course
• America in the Age of Roosevelt, 1933-1945
• Cold War America, 1945-Present

Teaching at Ohio State University

• OSU Presidential Fellow, 1975-1976, 1978-1979
• Graduate Teaching Associate in History, 1976-1978, 1979-1980
• U.S. survey in two-quarter sequence

Administrative/Committee Work

University Committees

• Extended Education Committee (2001-2003)
  
• Information Technology Committee [formerly Computer Resources Committee] (1994-2000) (Chair, 1997-1998)
  Planning Subcommittee (1997-1998)
  Academic Computing Subcommittee (Spring 1997-1998)
  World Wide Web Subcommittee (Spring 1997-1999)
  Chief Information Officer Subcommittee, Chair (Fall 1997-Spring 1999)
• Military Affairs Committee (1987-present)
  Chair, 1990-1994, 2000-2001, 2002-2003.
• President's Commission on the Status of Women (1989-1993)
  Subcommittee on Library Resources (1990-1993)
  Subcommittee on Personnel Evaluation (1989-1990)
• Committee for Undergraduate Research Award, Honors Program (Spring 1993)
• Copyrights and Patents Committee (1989-1992)
• Executive Committee of AAUP Chapter (1987-1989, 1990-1991)
• Committee X (Internet and web site) of AAUP Chapter (1996-present)
• Advisory Board Subcommittee for Presidential Search (1986)

College of Arts and Sciences Committees

• Instructional Technology Committee (1996-2000) (Chair, 1997-1998)
• Self-Study Committee (1993-1994) for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaccreditation
• Dean's Advisory Council (1988-1992)
• Academic Misconduct Committee, alternate (1986-1990)

Department of History Committees

• Curriculum Committee (1993-present)
  Chair, Subcommittee on U.S. History Text (1993-1995)
• Computer Resources Committee (1989-present)
• Tenure Review Committees (1989-present)
• Faculty Scholarship Committee (1988-1996, 2002)
  Chair, 1990-1993, 1995-1996
• U.S. History Survey Text Liaison (1988-1995)
• External Peer Review Committee (1993-1995, 1999-2000)
• Faculty Search Committee, Medieval European history (2001-2002)
• Faculty Search Committee, U.S. Social and Cultural (2000-2001)
• Faculty Search Committee, Women's history (2000-2001)
• Faculty Search Committee, Native American position (1995)
• Faculty Search Committee, U.S. Colonial (1992-1993)
• Faculty Search Committee, Modern Europe/Russia/Middle East (1990-1991)
• Faculty Search Committee, U.S. Social/Women's (1990-1991)
• Faculty Search Committee, European/World (2001-2002)
• History Department BASE Examination Committee, Chair (1994-1995)
• Departmental Chair Search Committee (1993-1994)
• Self-Study Committee for university reaccreditation (1992-1994)
  Chair, Subcommittee on Undergraduate Education (1993-1994)
• History Alumni Survey Committee (1992-1993)
• Promotion Committees (1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-2000)
• Departmental Goals Committee (Fall 1992)
• Goals and Outcomes Assessment Committee, Chair (1991)
• Georgia S. Hood I Scholarship (1983-1988) (Chair, 1987-1988)
• Self-Study Committee for university reaccreditation (1983-1984)
  Subcommittee on Education Activities
• Nolan Fowler Scholarship Committee (1982-1983)
• Audiovisual Media Committee (1982-1983)

Scholarly Referee and Consulting Work

• Grant evaluator for National Science Foundation and the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada.
• Manuscript Evaluator for Bedford/St. Martin's Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
• Manuscript evaluator for Longman Publishers, Summer 2002.
• Manuscript referee for Carol Berkin and Betty S. Anderson, The History Handbook (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
• Referee for revision of William H. Chafe, Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, fourth edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), Spring 2001.
• Referee for "Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962" module for XanEdu (http://www.xanedu.com/), Spring 2001.
• Participant in Gale Research focus group on World History section of the History Resource Center, American Historical Association, January 6, 2001.
• Referee and commentator for revision of William Freidheim, A Web of Connections: A Guide to History on the Internet (Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999), Fall 2000.
• Referee and commentator for Volume 6 of Depression, U.S.A. (London, Eng.: Brown Partworks, 2000)
• Referee for revision of John H. Cary, Julius Weinberg, Thomas L. Hartshorne, and Robert A. Wheeler, The Social Fabric: American Life from 1607 to 1877, eighth edition (New York: Longman, 1999), December 2000.
• Referee for revision of Robert A. Doughty et al., American Military History and the Evolution of Western Warfare (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1996), for Houghton Mifflin, June 2000.
• Participant in Pearson Publishing focus group on world wide web sites and history instruction, Organization of American Historians convention, St. Louis, MO, March 31, 2000.
• Manuscript referee for Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, ed. Robert H. Zieger (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997).
• Commented on paper later expanded as Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
• Manuscript reader for Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr, Business Enterprise in American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992, 1994), second and third editions.
• Manuscript referee for Bernard Bailyn, Robert Dallek, David Brion Davis, David Herbert Donald, John L. Thomas, Gordon S. Wood, The Great Republic: A History of the American People (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1992), two volumes, fourth edition.
• Manuscript referee for Business History Review, The Historian, and The Journal of Military History.
• Steering Committee, Robert H. Bremner Memorial Fund, Ohio State University, 1997-1998.
• Participant in presidential rating poll with results published as William J. Ridings and Stuart B. McIver, Rating the President: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders, From the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent (Seacaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1997).
• Internet adviser for business groups in Cookeville, TN, 1995-1996.
• Consultant for "The Wilder-Davidson Story: The End of an Era," an oral history project of coal mining communities in Tennessee, sponsored by the Tennessee Humanities Council, 1984-1988. Part of this work involved assistance with four-part television program which aired on WCTE-TV, Public Broadcasting Service channel, Cookeville, Tennessee in February 1987.
• Outside Honors Examiner for the Department of History, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, May 10-12, 1985.
• Humanities consultant for "The Class of 1929," documentary film about the impact of the Great Depression on lives of high school graduates from Mount Vernon, Ohio sponsored by the Ohio Program in the Humanities, 1981-1982.

Public Service Work

• President, Tennessee Technological University chapter, American Association of University Professors, 1987-1988, Vice President, 1986-1987
• Editor, AAUP at TTU web site
• Editor, Tennessee State Conference of American Association of University Professors Newsletter, 1986-1989.
• Interview regarding the teaching of military history with Jayne Miller, National Journalism Center, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2008.
• "Using the Internet," presentation for County History Workshop sponsored by the Upper Cumberland Institute and the Upper Cumberland Development District, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, July 20, 2002.
• Lectures on "The American Presidency Since 1933: From Cultural Lag to Timequake," and "Citizenship and the Internet," Inquiring Minds program, Extended Education, Tennessee Technological University, 1997-1998.
• Regular interviews for news programs on WSM, 650 AM radio, Nashville, TN, 1991-present regarding military issues and history.
• President, Vice President, member of Executive Comittee of Cumberland Microcomputer Users' Group (CMUG), Cookeville, TN
• Editor of Cumberland Microcomputer Users' Group (CMUG) web site
• Reader in U.S. History for College Board Advanced Placement Examination program, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989, 1990.
• Guest lecture on Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers to joint meeting of Phi Alpha Theta (history national honorary society) and Scabbard and Blade (ROTC national honorary society), May 1988.
• Arranged for visit of Doris Brinker Tanner, veteran, to speak on the Women's Airforce Service Pilots in World War II along with showing of film, "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter," in program sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series and the Department of History, April 1986.
• Arranged for visit of Czech emigre novelist, Joseph Skvorecky, for two lectures sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, February 1985.
• Interviewed Joseph Skvorecky about his novel, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) for "Tennessee Writers," PBS Channel 22, WCTE, Cookeville, Tn., on February 28, 1985 for two air dates in March 1985.

Membership in Professional Associations

• American Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians
  Organizing Committee, Ellis W. Hawley Prize (1994-1997)
• The Historical Society
• American Association of University Professors
• Tennessee Conference of AAUP
• American Association of University Professors at TTU
  editor of AAUP at TTU web site
  editor of Guidebook for New Faculty at TTU, June 2000.
• Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progessive Era (SHGAPE)
  founding editor (1994-2006) of H-SHGAPE web site
• Society for Military History
• Southern Historical Association
• National Council for History Education
• Tennessee Historical Society

References

• Alonzo L. Hamby
  Ohio University
  Department of History
  Athens, Ohio 45701-2979
  (740) 593-4334, 593-4332, or 592-1764

• Ellis W. Hawley
  University of Iowa
  Department of History
  Iowa City, Iowa 52242
  (319) 335-2299 or 351-1805
  

• Guy Alchon
  University of Delaware
  Department of History
  Newark, Delaware 19716
  (302) 831-2371, 831-2878, or 451-2371

• Roy T. Wortman, emeritus
  Kenyon College
  Department of History
  Gambier, Ohio 43022
  (740) 427-5316, 427-5319, or 427-4179

• Robert H. Bremner, deceased
  K. Austin Kerr, emeritus
  Warren R. Van Tine
  Ohio State University
  Department of History
  106 Dulles Hall
  230 West 17th Avenue
  Columbus, Ohio 43210-1367
  (614) 292-2674

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