Director, MATRIX: Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine
Michigan State University, 1998-present.

Chair, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2004-present.

Professor of History, Michigan State University, 2004-present.

Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University 1999-present.

Core Faculty, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1998-present.

Adjunct Curator, MSU Museum, 1998-present.

Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University, 1994-99.

Assistant Professor of History, Washington University, 1986-94.

Andrew Mellon Instructor of History, Rice University, 1985-86.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University, 1984-85.

Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley, 1973-77;
B.A. in History and Political Science, 1977.

Graduate: The Johns Hopkins University, 1977-88;
Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, 1978
M.A. in History, 1979
Ph.D. in History, 1988.

Why Americans Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern Electoral Politics, 1880-1918 (New York: New York University Press, 2000).

Principal Investigator, "Path to the Present: A Model Program to Improve and Support Teaching of Modern American History in Michigan," Teaching American History grant, U.S. Department of Education, 2004-7. 

Principal Investigator, "South Africa : Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy", NEH Educational Development Proposal, 2004-6 [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “The Spoken Word: New Resources to Transform Teaching and Learning,” NSF Collaborative International Digital Library project, 2003-08. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Planning for the Electronic Records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Mellon Foundation, 2002-04. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “South African Film and Video Project,” United States Department of Education, 2002-05. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Quilt Treasures On-line,” American Quilt Alliance, 2002-04.

Principal Investigator, “Michigana: An On-line Interactive Encyclopedia of Michigan Culture,” Michigan Humanities Council, 2002.

Principal Investigator, “Internet Capacitation for the University of Mali,” United States Aid for International Development, 2002-03.

Principal Investigator, “The American Quilt Index,” NEH Preservation and Access Project,
2001-04. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Michigan Writers’ Network,” Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, 2001-02. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Promoting Women’s Political leadership in West Africa: The Internet and Skills for Democracy,” US State Department Citizens Exchange Program, 2001-02. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Bi-National Partnership,” Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, 2000-03. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Multi-Lingual Digital Library for West African Sources,” NSF International Digital Library Project, 2000-04. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “Partnership between Tertiary Institutions and Disadvantaged Communities in Kwazulu-Natal,” USAID, 2002-04. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, Planning for “The American Quilt Index,” NEH Preservation and Access Project, 2000.

Principal Investigator, NSF Digital Library Initiative II, “National Gallery of the Spoken Word,” 1999-2004. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, US Department of Education, “Accessing African Scholarly Journals,” 1999-2004.

Principal Investigator, USIA Citizens Exchange Program, “The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing,” 1999-2002.

Principal Investigator, Michigan Department of Education Grant, “Civics OnLine,” 1999-2000. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, NEH Teaching with Technology Materials Development Grant, “Historical Voices,” 1998-2000. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, NEH FOCUS Grant, “Planning for an OnLine Interdisciplinary Multimedia Journal for the Humanities,” 1998-99. [view word file]

Principal Investigator, USIA Citizens Exchange Program, “Building Scholarly Networks in Southern Africa: Solving the Problems of Communication through the Internet,” 1998-99. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, NEH Chairmen’s Grant, “Linking Scholars and the Public: A Web Site on the American Revolution,” 1997-98.

Principal Investigator, USIA Citizens Exchange Program, “West African Humanists and Social Scientists: Solving Problems of the Internet,” 1997-98. [view pdf]

Principal Investigator, “A Virtual Center for the Arts and Humanities in Michigan,” Michigan Humanities Council, 1997-2000.

Principal Investigator, NEH Educational Grant, "H-Net: Humanities OnLine," 1995-96.

Principal Investigator, NEH Educational Grant, "Creating the History Classroom of the Twenty-First Century," 1995-98.

Member of NINCH Working Group that co-authored The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials,” 2002, http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/acknowl.html

Member of the EU-US Working Group on Spoken-Word Collections that co-authored 2003 Future Research Agenda Report, 2003.[view pdf]

Member of the National Academy of Science, Computer Science and Technology Board’s Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, First Report on Digital Archiving and NARA, Washington, DC, April 2003, http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089476/html/

“Liberalism,” The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia, ed. By Richard S. Kirkendall, (Boston, G.K. Hall, 1990).

With Michael Fegan and Dean Rehberger, “Media Matrix: Creating Secondary Repositories,” European Conference on Digital Libraries, Bath , England , September 2004. [view pdf]

“Interoperability and Secondary Repositories: What Can we Do to Build for the Future Now,” TICFIA 2004 Project Directors Meeting, San Diego , April 2004. [view pdf]

“Giving Voice to History: Incorporating Aural Literacy in History Teaching,” H-Net Affiliated Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,” Washington , D.C. , January 2004.

With Jerry Goldman, David Donald, and Dean Rehberger, “The Spoken Word: New Resources for Teaching and Learning,” NSF-JISC All-Projects Meeting, Stanford , California , December 2003.

Speaker, “Roundtable on Building a Cyber-infrastructure for the Humanities,” Closing Plenary, CNI Fall Meetings, Portland , Oregon , December 2003.

With Jerry Goldman, “Turning Streaming Media into Useful Resources: Results from the National Gallery of the Spoken Word, ” NSF DLI PI meeting, Washington , DC , December 2003. [view pdf]

With Michael Fegan, “Beginning an African Online Digital Library,” NSF DLI PI meeting, Washington , DC , December 2003. [view pdf]

“Peering into the Future of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age,” Key note address, Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections, Northeast Document Conservation Center Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2003. [view pdf]

With Dean Rehberger, Michael Fegan, David Bailey, Scott Pennington, and Justine Richardson, “Online Communities of Oral History and Narrative: Five Years of Digital Oral History Projects at MATRIX,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Bethesda , Maryland , October 2003.

"'Envisaging the Future:' Building Multimedia Digital Repositories For Long-Term Preservation, Access, and Use," "Envisaging the Future": Digital Research and scholarship in the Humanities Conference, The Australian National University, 2003. [view pdf]

With Jerry Goldman and Dean Rehberger, "The Problems of Ingesting and Delivering Complex Objects from Digital Repositories," Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries, Chania, Crete, June 2003. [view pdf]

With Dean Rehberger and Michael Fegan, “The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories,” CNI Taskforce Briefing, Washington, DC, April 2003. [view pdf]

“H-Net at Ten Years: Growth, Change, Impact, and Future Direction," .hist 2003: History and New Media Conference, Berlin, Germany April 2003. [view pdf]

“Building Multimedia Cultural Heritage Repositories for the Future,” TICFIA 2003 Project Directors Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2003. [view pdf]

“Peering into the Future of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age,” South African National Cultural History Symposium on the Future of Cultural Heritage, Durban, South Africa, February 2003. [view pdf]

With Peter Knupfer, “H-Net Ten Years On: Usage, Impact and the Problems of Professionalization in New Media,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2003. [view link]

“Building Multimedia Repositories for the Future,” OCLC Institute Symposium, “Growing the Digital Library,” Annual Meeting of the American Library Association, January 2003. [view pdf]

“Building a Multimedia Digital Repository of the Spoken Word: Observations from the National Gallery of the Spoken Word DLI2 Project,” American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2002. [view pdf]

Chair and Commentator, “Digital Opportunities Through Technology and Communication: DOT-COM,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 2003.

“Historical Voices: Reflections on Developing a Distributive Multimedia Digital Repository for Aural Resources,” Digital Resources for the Humanities, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, September 2002. [view pdf]

“New Directions, New Collaborations: Computer Science and the Humanities, Building Blocks for the Future,” OCLC Digital and Preservation Coop Conference, May 2002.

With Jerry Goldman, “Developing Historical Voices: A Multimedia Digital Repository,” CNI Spring Task Force Meetings, Washington, DC, April 2002. [view pdf]

With Dean Rehberger and Michael Fegan, “Launching a Multimedia Digital Repository,” European Community/NSF All Projects Concertation, Rome, Italy 2002. [view pdf]

With Melanie Shell-Weiss and Paul Turnbull, “Alternatives to Pay-for-View: The Case for Open Access to Historical Research and Scholarship,” H-Net Affiliated Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 2002. [view link]

“Building the National Gallery of the Spoken Word," Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, New York, 2001. [view pdf]

Chair, Roundtable, "Graduate Training in the Digital Age: A Roundtable Discussion of What History Departments Should Be Doing," H-Net Affiliated Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 2001.

With Melanie Shell Weiss, “Bringing Historical Voices Online,” Living Heritage: Oral History, Practice and Policy Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2000. [view pdf]

Chair, “Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age,” Presidential Session at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 2000.

With Melanie Shell-Weiss, "Bridging Differences or Reinforcing Barriers: The Challenge of Preserving and Accessing Oral Histories in the Digital Age" Oral History Association Annual Meeting, 2000.

With Bartlomiej Plichta, “Giving Voice to History: The National Gallery of the Spoken Word,” NINCH Building Blocks Conference, Washington DC, September 2000.

“The Media Revolution (Multimedia and Internet) and Historical Research, 19th International Congress of Historical Science, Oslo, Norway, 2000.

With Melanie Shell-Weiss, “Bridging Disparate Voices: The Challenge of Bringing Sound Online, 19th International Congress of Historical Science, Oslo, Norway, 2000.

“Disparate Voices: The Challenges of Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Invention in Creating the National Gallery of the Spoken Word," H-Net affiliated session at the Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, 2000.

Commentator, “Reexamination of the Function and Role of Copyright,” and “The Impact of Technological Change on the way in which Scholars, Educational Institutions, Libraries, and Archives Deal with Intellectual Property,” Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property, Ohio State University, 2000.

With Michael Seadle, Jack Deller, John Hansen, and Jerry Goldman, “Building a National Gallery of the Spoken Word,” Digital Library Initiative II Conference, Ithaca, New York, 1999.

With Jerry Goldman, “The Political and Social Implications of the IT Revolution for Education: The Internet and the University in the 21st Century,” Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, September 1999. [view pdf]

“Giving Voice to History on the Internet,” H-Net Affiliated Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 1999.

“The Internet and South African National Cultural Heritage,” South African Bi-National Cultural Heritage Partnership Conference, 1999.

With David Wiley, African Internet Connectivity Project: Higher Education Uses of Internet Technologies – New Applications for International Development, ALO Roundtable, June 1999. [view pdf]

“Oral History in the 21st Century,” Oral History Association, 1998.

“Building International Communities of Scholars and Teachers: H-Net, the Internet, and the University of the 21st Century,” The Future of the Humanities, Bergen, Norway, 1998.

“Building International Communities of Scholars and Teachers: H-Net, the Internet, and the University of the 21st Century,” GhaCLAD, Accra, Ghana, 1998.

Panelist, The Future of the Profession, Organization of American Historians, 1998.

“Envisioning the Future: A Progress Report on Incorporating New Technology with History Pedagogy,” H-Net Affiliated Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 1998.

“Envisioning the Future: Arts and Letters in the Digital Age,” Muses, 1997.

“The Arts and Humanities: Partners at the Threshold of the 21st Century,” Michigan Humanities Council Symposium, 1997.

Chair, “The Internet and the Future of Political Science,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1997.

“The Electronic‘Classroom’ of the Twenty-First Century," Missouri Conference on History, 1997.

Panelist, “Electronic Discussion Lists in Political Science,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1997.

“A Virtual Center for the Arts and Humanities in Michigan — A Vision for the Future,” Michigan Humanities Council Symposium, 1997.

Panelist, AHA Roundtable, Bibliographic Developments and Opportunities on the World Wide Web, H-Net Affiliated Session at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1997.

“Networking the Networks,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 1996.

Panelist, AHA Roundtable: "Book Reviewing in the Electronic Age," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1996.

"Networking the Study of Politics: H-Pol and the Creation of a Scholarly Discourse on the Net," Social Science History Annual Meeting, 1995.

Commentator, "The Future of Humanities Teaching," NEH Project Directors Symposium, 1995.

"Voting, Non-Voting, and American Democracy," Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1993.

Commentator, "Women and Culture During the Great Depression," Duquesne History Forum, 1990.

Commentator, "The New Deal as Regime, Legacy, and Distortion," Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1990.

Commentator, "Conservatism and Liberalism in 20th Century America," Eleventh Mid-America Conference on History, 1989.

"Why Americans Stopped Voting: A Social Analysis of American Political Behavior, 1880-1918," Harvard University, 1986.

With Brian Jon Adams, “Internet Capacitation at the University of Bamako, Mali: Challenges and Solutions under the Leland Initiative,” African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 2003. [view pdf]

"Building a Multimedia Digital Repository of the Spoken Word: Observations from The National Gallery of the Spoken Word DLI2 Project" National Library of Australia, 2003. [view pdf]

“A Multi-Faceted Approach to Integrating IT into International Education,” Innovative Strategies for Internationalizing Higher Education Conference,” Chicago, Illinois, April 2003. [view pdf]

With Scott Pennington, “Reinvigorating African Universities: The Need for African Digital Libraries and the Challenge to Build Them,” Tufts University, December 2002. [view pdf]

With Dean Rehberger and Michael Fegan, “Building a Distributive Multimedia Digital Repository for Long term Access and Preservation,” Michigan State University, November 2002. [view pdf]

“A Multi-Faceted Approach to Bridging the Digital Divide: MSU, MATRIX, and H-Net,” at The Impact of New Technologies on Teaching and Research in International Studies Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, October 2002. [view pdf]

“Collaborations between US and African Universities and Faculties: Building Capacity for Internet-Enhanced Education and Research,” at “Higher Education and Global Development: Building Capacity for Internet-Enhanced Education and Research,” ALO Forum, October 2002. [view pdf]

With Jerry Goldman, “Digitizing Spoken-Word Collections,” Tutorial at European Conference on Digital Libraries, Rome, Italy, September 2002.

With Scott Pennington, “ Building an African Online Digital Library: Project Briefing,” Dakar, March 2001. [view pdf]

“Enough Handwringing and Cyber-News Searching: What Do We Do with This Election,” American Studies Roundtable, MSU, 2000.

“Creating a National Gallery of the Spoken Word: Research Challenges in Making Aural Resources Useful on the Internet.” Multimedia Information Series, University of Maryland, 2000. [view pdf]

“The Future of the Past: History in the Digital Age,” MSU University Club, East Lansing, April 2000. [view pdf]

“Preserving South Africa’s Cultural Heritage, MSU Alumni Lifelong Education Series, 2000.

“The Future of the Past: Teaching and Researching History in the Digital Age,” Northern Illinois University 2000. [view pdf]

“The Future of the Past: History in the Digital Age,” MSU Libraries Colloquia Series, East Lansing, November, 1999. [view pdf]

“Creating a National Gallery of the Spoken Word,” Tufts University, Boston, 1999.

“Internet and Multimedia: American Studies (Research and Education) in the 21st Century,” Kansai American Center, Osaka, Japan, 1998.

“Interactive Networks: Implications for Journals”, Mellon Seminar, History Journals and the Electronic Future, Indiana University, 1997.

"The Internet for Social Scientists and Humanists," Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Seminar, 1995.

"H-Net at Two Years: Accomplishments and Challenges," HNET95, 1995.

“Humanities OnLine,” National Advisory Council, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, 1995.

“History OnLine and On the Desk,” College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, Lifelong Education Series, 1995.

"Connecting to the World: An Introduction to the Internet for Humanists," Florida State University, 1994.

"Jacking into Cyberspace: A Humanist's Guide to the Internet, Michigan State University, 1994.

"Elections, Parties, and Voters: A Historian's Look at the Future of American Politics," Ethical Society of St. Louis, Missouri 1992.

"The Impact of the Cold War on American Culture and Society," International Educational Consortium Workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, 1990.

"Teaching the Civil Rights Movement," St. Louis Special School District Workshop, 1990.

"George Orwell Was Wrong: Thoughts on the End of the Cold War," International Education Consortium Dinner, St. Louis, Missouri 1990.

"The Civil Rights Movement in American History," International Educational Consortium Workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989.

"The Meaning of Vietnam in U.S. History," International Educational Consortium Workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989.

"Contemporary American Culture: The Impact of the Media," Older Adult Service and Information System, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988.

"James Baldwin of Harlem," Afro American Studies Program on "Baldwin in 1988," Washington University, 1988.

"The American Family: A Social History of an Ever Changing Institution," Meramec Liberal Arts Series, St. Louis Community College, 1988.

"Politics, Culture and Higher Education: Send Off Address to the 1988 Graduates in Arts and Sciences," Washington University.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, www.h-net.org.

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, www.h-net.org/reviews.

Historical Voices, www.historicalvoices.org.

African Online Digital Library, www.africandl.org.

The Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org/testing

Civics Online, www.civics-online.org.

Michigan Writers Network, www.michigan-writers.org.

The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing, www.matrix.msu.edu/iwdo.

Internet Education for Poland, www.obywatel.org.

Amagugu: South African National Cultural Heritage, www.saculturalheritage.org.

Executive Director, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, 1997-present.

Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine, 1998-present.

Member, National Academy of Science, Computer Science and Technology Board’s Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, 2002-04.

Managing Editor, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1994-present.

Member, Scholars' Advisory Committee, Digital Library Federation, 2004-present.

Steering Committee Member, Humanities, Arts, Science, technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), 2004-present.

Elected Member, Research Division, American Historical Association, 2000-03.

Member, Task Force on Intellectual Property, American Historical Association, 2002-present.

Member, NSF-Delos Task Force on Spoken Word Archives, 2002-03.

Member, National Advisory Board, METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standards, 2002- present.

Member, National Advisory Board, Center for New Media History, George Mason University, 2001-present.

Member, National Advisory Board, MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken ArCHives, 2002-present.

Member, Nominating Committee, Social Science History Association, 2001-02.

Steering Committee Member, Building Blocks Project, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-present.

Member, Best Practices in Humanities Digitization Advisory Board, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 1998-present.

Member, Bi-National Advisory Board, South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program, 1999-2003.

Member, National Advisory Board, The Society for History Education, 1999-present.

Core Faculty Member, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 2000-present.

Advisory Board, The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College, 2000-01.

Faculty, Information Technology and the Future of Education, The American Studies Center, Salzburg Seminar, 1999.

Field Reviewer, Institute for Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grants, Preservation and Digitization, 2002.

Panelist, EdSitement Review Committee, NEH, 1999.

Member, Organization of American Historians’ Ellis Hawley Prize Committee, 1998-99.

Member, Joint Arts and Humanities Steering Committee for the State of Michigan, 1997-2000.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Multimedia History, 1998-2004.

Adjunct Curator, Michigan State University Museum, 1998-present.

Conference Chair, “Envisioning the Future: Creating the Humanities ‘Classroom’ of the 21st Century, 1997.

Chair, Executive Committee, H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, 1994-97.

Program Committee Chair, H-Net Annual Meeting, 1996-2000.

Guest Editor, OAH Council of Chairs Newsletter, August, 1996.

Member, National Advisory Board, Riverweb, National Computing Super Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1996-present.

Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, History Department, Michigan State University, 2002-03, 2003-04.

Graduate Policy Committee, History Department, Michigan State University, 1996-97, 1999-2001.

Graduate Admissions Committee, History Department, Michigan State University, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2001-02.

Undergraduate Studies Committee, History Department, Michigan State University, 1994-95, 1997-98.

Member of the Editorial Board of H-Pol, An International Electronic Discussion List on Political History, 1993-present.

Member of the Editorial Board of H-Teach, An International Electronic Discussion List on Teaching History, 1993-present.

Founding Editor, H-Teach, An International Electronic Discussion List on Teaching History, 1993-95.

Dean's Advisory Committee on Educational Computing at Washington University, 1992-93.

Chair, Washington Center Program, Washington University, 1992-93.

Coordinator, Parent's Support Group, Child Development Center, Washington University,
1991-94.

Steering Committee American Culture Studies Program, Washington University, 1989-94.

Washington University Bookstore Advisory Committee, 1989-92.

History Department Search Committee, position in Nineteenth-Century American Women's History, Washington University, 1990-91.

Director, History Honors Program, Washington University, 1987-98, 1989-90.

History Department Search Committee, position in African-American History, Washington University, 1988-89.

Faculty Sponsor, Phi Alpha Theta and History Undergraduate Student Association, Washington University, 1987-88, 1989-93.

History Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, Washington University, 1986-94.

Elected, Research Division, American Historical Association, 1999.

On Behalf of H-Net, The James Harvey Robinson Prize for Innovative History Teaching, American Historical Association, 1997.

Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, 1994 (declined).

Election to Omicron Delta Kappa, The National Leadership Honorary Society, Elected as a Faculty Member for Excellence in Teaching, 1993.

Citation for Excellence in Teaching, Washington University's Chapter of the Mortar Board, The International Senior Honorary, 1992.

Rolling Stone Magazine's 1991 Honor Roll of Top College Professors.

The Council of Students of Arts and Sciences Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Washington University, 1988.

Andrew W. Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Rice University, 1985-86.

The Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship Award, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.

Graduated with Honors in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.

Review of The American Political Nation, 1838-1893, by Joel Silbey, Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1993), "Giving Aid and Comfort."

Review of Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990, by Linda Hunt, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 48 (September 1992). "Men, Women, and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,"

Review of The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930, by Paula Baker, Reviews in American History 20 (March 1992).

Review of The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, by James A. Morone, Gateway Heritage (Winter 1992).

Review of Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History, edited by Robert Sklar and Charles Musser, Film Quarterly 45 (Winter 1991-92).

Review of Agrarianism and Reconstruction Politics: The Southern Homestead Act, by Michael L. Lanza, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 518 (November 1991).

Review of A Gift to Glory In: The First Hundred Years of the Missouri Botanical Garden, (1859-1959), by William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Missouri Historical Review 86 (October 1991).

Review of Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State: The Johnson Presidency, by David M. Welborn and Jesse Burkhead, Journal of Southern History 57 (August 1991).

Review of "Guilty By Suspicion," Gateway Heritage 12 (Summer 1991).

Review of The Congressman's Civil War, by Allan G. Bogue, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21 (Spring 1991).

Review of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia, by Robert Fishman, Gateway Heritage 9 (Fall 1988).

Michigan State University:

Graduate Seminar in Humanities Technology

Graduate Seminar in Modern American Historiography; History 801 [link]

Graduate Research Seminar in Modern American Politics, History 812 [link]

Undergraduate Research Seminar on the Protests of the Sixties [link]

Modern America, 1919-present; History 306 [link]

Survey of United States History, 1877-present; History 203 [link]

Faculty of Record, The US and the World, Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities 201

Washington University:

Graduate Seminar in Twentieth-Century American History

Graduate Seminar in Modern America: 1877-1929.

Graduate Seminar in Recent America: 1929-present

Graduate Seminar in Modern Mass Politics, 1877-present

Modern America, 1877-1929

Modern America, 1929-present

American Culture and Society, 1919-1945

Modern American Culture and Society, 1945-present

Seminar in American Political History, 1877-present

Seminar in American Mass Politics, 1776-present

Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Mass Politics

Seminar in The Protests of the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies

FOCUS Program: Social Change and Social Movements

FOCUS Program: American Society: Perspectives on Equality and Inequality

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine. (http://www.h-net.org)

American Historical Association (http://www.theaha.org)

Organization of American Historians (http://www.oah.org)

African Studies Association (http://www.africanstudies.org)

Social Science History Association (http://www.ssha.org)

Oral History Association (http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha)

Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (http://www.h-net-org/shgape)

The Society for History Education (http://www.cslb.edu/~histeach)

The National Council for History Education (http://www.history.edu/nche)

Phi Beta Kappa (http://www.pbk.org)