Swarthmore College History Courses (through 2000; all subsequent syllabi are on Blackboard)

• Swarthmore College Department of History
• Course Syllabi
  • The American Colonies
  • The American Revolution
  • United States to 1877 (Fall 1999)
  • United States in the 19th Century: "Race in 19th-Century America"
  • Radicals and Reformers in America: First-Year Seminar
  • Murder in a Mill Town: A Window on Social Change in the Early Republic
  • Coming of the Civil War: Antebellum America
  • History of Manhood in America -- see Radical History Review 64 (Winter 1996), 19-30.

  

  • American Social History Honors Seminar
  • American Political and Diplomatic History 1: Age of Nationalism Seminar

Scholarly Interests

• C.V.
• Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. (Cornell University Press, 2002)
  • Awarded Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2004.
• Crosscurrents in America Culture: A Reader in U.S. History (Houghton Mifflin, 2009).
• Murder in a Mill Town (Book manuscript in progress)

Other Web Sites

A growing (but not nearly comprehensive) list of links to web sites of interest to historians in general, early America scholars, historians of religion in America, as well as sites and places for the history of Philadelphia.