Education
Ph.D., The
Dissertation: “The Status of Women in the Disciples of Christ Movement,1865-1900.”
M.A., The
Thesis: “Oliver Perry Temple, New South Agrarian.”
B.A.,
Teaching Interests
American Social and Intellectual, Southern History, Civil War, Historiography.
Professional Experience
Professor,
T. K. Ann Professor of American History, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China, 1993-94 (one year appointment; classes taught: graduate seminars in American historiography, American thought).
Associate professor,
Faculty, Evening Program,
Faculty, Evening Program, The
Teaching Assistant, The
Research Assistant, The Andrew Johnson Papers project, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1970-71.
Professional Activities
Associate editor, West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, 1983-84.
Educational Advisory Committee,
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1990-91.
American History Award Committee, Southwest Social Studies Association, 1993-95 [chair, 1995].
Awards committee, Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award for the Southern Historical Association, 1997-98 (Given for the outstanding article in the Journal of Southern History over a two year period).
Hospitality Committee, Southern Historical Association Convention, 1999.
Chair, C. Vann Woodward Prize, Southern Historical Association, 2003 (Given for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in southern history, 2002).
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2003-04
Nominating Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2004-05
Chair, Nominating Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2005-06
Refereed articles for Journal of Southern History, Restoration Quarterly, Journal of
Refereed manuscripts for
Awards
“A. Elizabeth Taylor Award” for the outstanding article on southern women for 1994 given by the Southern Association of Women’s Historians. [”Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the Patrician Cult of the Old South,” region>
“H. Bailey Carroll Award” for the outstanding article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly for 1994.
The E. Merton Coulter Award for the outstanding article in the Georgia Historical Quarterly for 1991.
Co-winner, “Outstanding Paper in American History” presented to the Southwest Historical Association Convention,
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“John Trotwood Moore Award, 1987,” given by the Tennessee Historical Society for the outstanding article in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly in 1986.
“Marshall Wingfield Award, 1983,” given by the West Tennessee Historical Society for the outstanding article in the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers for 1982.
Recognitions
Professional Service Award,
Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship,
Designated the T. K. Ann Endowed Professor at The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies,
Keynote speaker, North Carolina Historical and Literary Society, November 1990.
Biographical entry in Susan M. Trosky, ed., Contemporary Authors (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1990), vol. CXXIX, pp. 22-23.
Cullen Research Grants,
Books
“The Southern Quest for a Suitable Past: Historiography and Social Control,1890-2000"
The objective of this study is to explore the mechanisms by which southern elites imposed censorship upon the writing of history in order to legitimize their control over their region from 1890 to 2000. Beginning with the creation of the Confederate societies’ historical committees and continuing through the historical revisionism of the post-Civil Rights Movement, the work will trace the cultural and intellectual assumptions which led white Southerners to develop historical literature at variance with that of the rest of the region>
Books
Class and
William Edward Dodd: The South’s Yeoman Scholar.
Contributions to Edited volumes
“That Which God Hath Put Asunder”: Southern Baptists, Race, and Social Order, 1890-1920,” in Glenn Feldman, ed., Politics and Religion in the White South (
“Free Speech and the ‘Lost Cause’ in the Old Dominion,” Kevin Hardwick, ed.
“E. Merton Coulter” and “Charles S. Sydnor” in Glenn Feldman, ed., Making Southern History: Twentieth Century Historians and their Culture (
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“The Christian Woman’s Board of Missions and the Disciple Path to Women Preaching,” in Carroll Osborn, ed., Essays on Women in Earliest Christianity (2 vols.,
“Developing Dynamic Media productions for National History Day Competition,“ in David De Boe, ed., Sponsor’s Handbook for Junior Historians and Webb Society Chapters (Austin, Texas: Texas State Historical Association, 1990).
“Plain Folk and Apology: Frank L. Owsley’s Defense of the South,” in James C. Cobb and Charles R. Wilson, eds., Perspectives on the American South, an Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture, IV (1987), 101-14.
“Introduction,” The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires (5 vols.,
Southern History, LXXI (November 2005), 833-852.
“The Best History Money Can Buy: Eugene Campbell Barker, George Washington Littlefield,
and the Quest for a Suitable Past,” Gulf South Historical Review, XX (Fall 2004), 28-48.
“The Work Among the Colored Brethren: Race, Religion, and Social Order in the New South, 1890-1920,”
“What Southern Patricians ‘Knew’ about the Negro: Race Ideology in the Missionary Quests of Lucinda and Mary Helm,” The Register of the
“John Trotwood Moore and the Patrician Cult of the New South,”
“Thomas Nelson Page and the Patrician Cult of the Old South,” International Social Science
Review, LXXII (Fall 1997), 110-21.
“Free Speech and the ‘Lost Cause’ in
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55.
“Free Speech and the ‘Lost Cause’ in the Old Dominion,” Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, CIII (April 1995), 237-66.
“Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the Patrician Cult of the Old South,” region>
LXXVIII (fall 1994), 509-35.
“Free Speech and the ‘Lost Cause’ in
New South,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCVII (January 1994),
433-78.
“Class Contrasts in the Antebellum Trans-Mississippi: An Analysis of Twenty-nine Confederate Autobiographical Questionnaires,” Louisiana History, XXXIII (fall 1992), 363-80.
“Free Speech at the
Historical Quarterly, LXXI (July 1992), 1-17.
“A Virginia Scholar in Hitler’s Court: The Tragic Ambassadorship of William Edward
Dodd,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, C (July 1992), 323-42.
“Thomas Perkins Abernathy: Defender of Aristocratic Virtue,” The
1992), 83-102.
“Textbooks of the Lost Cause: Censorship and the Creation of Southern State Histories,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXV (fall 1991), 507-33.
“William Edward Dodd: The South’s Yeoman Historian,” The North Carolina Historical Review,
LXVI (July 1989) 301-20.
“Class Contrasts in Old
“Class and
1985), 31-60.
“
1983), 260-73.
“The Poor, Plain Folk, and Planters: A Social Analysis of Middle
“Caste and the Classroom in Antebellum
(spring/summer 1982), 39-54.
“Women’s Superiority in Disciple Thought,” Restoration Quarterly, XXIII (Fall 1980), 7-12.
“Disciple Images of Victorian Womanhood,” Discipliana, XL (spring 1980), 151-60.
“Oliver Perry Temple and the Struggle for
“Legalities, Agriculture, and Immigration: The Role of Oliver Perry Temple in the Rugby Experiment,” East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications, No. 44 (1972), 90-103.
Reviews
Jonathan Daniel Wells. The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861, forthcoming in the
John A. Simpson, S. A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage, in
Phinizy Spalding, compiler and editor, Higher Education for Women in the South: A History of Lucy Cobb Institute, 1858-1994, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXIX (1995).
Robert Tracy McKinzie, One South or Many?
S. Charles Bolton, Territorial Ambition: Land and Society in
in The Journal of Southern History, LXI (February 1995).
Stuart McConnell, Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic,1865- 1900 in The
Judith Lee Hallock, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly, LI (winter 1992).
Harriet Chappell Owsley, Frank Lawrence Owsley: Historian of the Old South in The region>
Historical Quarterly, LXXVI (spring 1992).
George G. Shackleford, George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate Elite in The Register of
the Kentucky Historical Society (autumn 1989).
John Lee Eighmy, Churches in Cultural Captivity: A History of the Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists in the
Ellen Rosenberg, The Southern Baptists: A Subculture in Transition in the
Howard Dorgan, Giving Glory to God in
Subdenominations in the
Stephen V. Ash, Middle
Upper South in the region>
Richard G. Lowe and
Antebellum
Michael O’Brien, Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History in the
Fredrick F. Siegel, Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in
Jean Friedman, The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-
1900 in the Journal of American History (June 1986).
Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism in the Historian (February 1986).
Spencer B. King, Sound of Drums: Selected Writings of Spencer B. King from His Civil War
Centennial Columns Appearing in the Macon (region>
Civil War History (December 1984).
Bruce Collins, White Society in the Antebellum South in The Tennessee Historical Quarterly (winter 1985).
John B. Boles, Black Southerners: 1619-1869 in the
Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South in the
Summary Review of Charles F. Bryan, Jr., “
Panels and Chairs
Chair and respondent, “Race and Religious Themes in Twentieth Century America,” Southwestern Social Studies Convention,
Chair and respondent, “Class and the Antebellum South,” Mid-America Conference on History,
Respondent, “Southern Women,” Mid-America Conference on History,
Chair and respondent, “Southern Communities,” Southwestern Historical Association Conference,
Chair and respondent, “Religion in region>
Respondent, “Poor Whites in the Occupied Confederacy,” Southern Historical Association Convention,
Respondent, “American Imperialism in the Twentieth Century,” Southwestern Historical Association Conference,
Chair, “Planning for Inquiry,” The
Respondent, “Genealogical Skills and the Professional Historian,” The Louisiana State historical Association Convention,
Chair, “The Restoration Idea in American History,” Conference on the Restoration Theme in American Religion,
Respondent, “Two Episodes in Early Virginia History,”
Respondent, “The Church and Public Issues in the 1980's,” Christian Scholars Conference,
Respondent, “Conflict within the Civil War South,” Southern Historical Association Convention,
National History Day Program (1983-1989)
Director, BIG COUNTRY REGIONAL HISTORY FAIR,
Student Achievement in National History Day Competition
1985
Fourth Senior Individual Projects
Fourth Junior Individual Projects
1986
Second Senior Individual Drama
Second Junior Essay
Fourth Junior Individual Projects
Superior Rating Junior Essay National History Day
1987
First Senior Individual Media
First Junior Group Media
First Junior Individual Media Texas history Day
Second Junior Individual Media
Second Junior Individual Projects
Second Junior Essays
Third Senior Individual Drama
Fourth Junior Group Project
Texas Women’s
Award Senior Individual Drama
Colonial Award Junior Group Project
Second Junior Individual Media National History Day
Ratings: Junior Group Media National History Day
Senior Individual Media National History Day
Junior Individual Media National History Day
Junior Individual Projects National History Day
Junior Essay National History Day
1988
First Senior Essay
First Junior Individual Media
Third Junior Individual Media
Fourth Junior Essay
Fourth Junior Individual Drama
Texas Women’s
Award Junior Individual Project
Oral History
Award Junior Individual Media
Second Junior Individual Media National History Day
Third Senior Essay National History Day
1989
First Junior Individual Projects
First Junior Group Media
Third Junior Individual Media
Third Junior Group Drama
Third Senior Group Project
Third Senior Individual Media
Fourth Junior Essay
Fourth Senior Group Media
Colonial
History Award Junior Individual Project
Superior Rating Junior Media (ranked 4th) National History Day
Superior Rating Junior Individual Project (ranked 7th) National History Day
History Day Workshops Conducted
Teacher Workshop for History Day,
Student Workshops for History Day,
Media Workshop for History Day,
Classroom Workshops: average speaking to 3000 middle and high school students in their classrooms, 1984-89.
Extra Regional Workshops:
Topic Ideas for
History Media,
History Media Workshop,
History Media Workshop,
November 1989.
“Basic techniques in Producing Dynamic Student Media presentations, “Texas State Historical Association, History Awareness Workshop, San Antonio, August 1990.
Judging National History Day
Instructed media judges, 1987, 1988, 1989.
National History Day,
M. A. Theses Guided (
Tracy McGlothlin Shilcutt. The Bluebonnet Brigade: Women and War in Abilene, Texas, 1941-1945. August 1993.
Gary Thomas Edwards. A People Apart: Social Dynamics in
August 1996.
Robert Jason Bullock. “Hangin’ with Audie Murphy”: An American Hero as Symbol,” May 1998.
Shannon C. Cain. “An American Intellectual in Full: Herbert Croly and The Promise of American Life Reconsidered. August 2001.
[Served as a reader on an additional eleven theses.]
University, College and Department Assignments
2006-2007
Department chair
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
Study Abroad Committee
[Sabbatical spring 2007]
2005-2006
Department chair
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
Study Abroad Committee
2004-2005
Department chair
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
2003-2004
Department chair
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
2002-2003
Department chair
Curriculum Committee, College or Arts and Sciences
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
Ad hoc committee on ACU Oxford curriculum committee
Benchmark Committee, Undergraduate Core Curriculum Project
2001-2002
Department chair
Curriculum Committee, College or Arts and Sciences
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
Ad hoc committee on ACU Oxford curriculum committee
2000-2001
Department chair
Curriculum Committee, College or Arts and Sciences
University Graduate Council
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
Ad hoc committee on ACU Oxford curriculum committee
1999-2000
Department chair
Southern Association Self-Study Committee, Under Graduate Curriculum
Curriculum Committee, College or Arts and Sciences
University Graduate Council
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
1998-99
Department chair
University Research Council
University Graduate Council
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
1997-98
Department chair
University Research Council
University Graduate Council
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
1996-97
Department chair
University Research Council
University Graduate Council
Candidate Review Committee, Jack Pope Fellows Program
1995-96
Special Committee on ”Writing Across the Curriculum”
University Honors Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
1994-95
Search Committee, Dean College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Senate
University Honors Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
1993-94
On leave of Absence from
1992-93
Faculty Senate
University Graduate Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta
1991-92
Faculty Senate
University Academic Council
University Graduate Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta
1990-91
Faculty Senate
University Academic Council
University Graduate Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
1989-90
Vice-chair, Committee for Undergraduate Education, Southern Association Self-study
University Academic Council
Department Supervisor of Student Employees
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
1988-89
University Research Council
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
1987-88
University Research Council
Special University Committee on Recruitment and retention
Department Administrator of CLEP Examinations
International travel
Europe: I have traveled and lived in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales) including teaching at Abilene Christian University’s Oxford Center fall 2003 and taken short trips across Germany, France, and Italy.
Asia: I taught at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China (1993-94) and have also traveled exetensively across China, Japan and Thailand.
