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PERSONAL
Born:
Dumas,
Arkansas,
28
March
1947.
Married:
Bonnie
M.
Pitt.
22
August
1968.
Three
children,
four
grandchildren
Hobbies:
writing,
international
travel,
long‐distance
walking
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
The
University
of
Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
1979.
Dissertation:
“The
Status
of
Women
in
the
Disciples
of
Christ
Movement,1865‐1900.”
M.A.,
The
University
of
Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
1972.
Thesis:
“Oliver
Perry
Temple,
New
South
Agrarian.”
B.A.,
Harding
University,
Searcy,
Arkansas,
1970.
TEACHING
INTERESTS
American
Social
and
Intellectual,
Southern
History,
Civil
War,
Historiography.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Professor,
Abilene
Christian
University,
Abilene,
Texas,
1984
to
present.
(Appointed
to
graduate
faculty
membership
1984;
present
rank
1988,
leave
of
absence
1993‐94,
chair
1996
to
2010).
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,
Freed‐Hardeman
College,
Henderson,
Tennessee,
1973
to
1984.
Faculty,
Evening
Program,
Jackson
State
Community
College,
Jackson,
Tennessee,
1977.
Faculty,
Evening
Program,
The
University
of
Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
1973.
Teaching
Assistant,
The
University
of
Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
1971‐1973.
Research
Assistant,
The
Andrew
Johnson
Papers
project,
The
University
of
Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
1970‐71.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
AWARDS
Associate
editor,
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers,
1983‐84.
Educational
Advisory
Committee,
Texas
State
Historical
Association,
1988‐1990.
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,
2005‐06
Chair,
nominating
Committee,
Southern
Historical
Association,
2006‐07
Merle Curti Award Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2008-09 (Given for the
outstanding
book in Social and Intellectual History)
Refereed
articles
for
Journal
of
Southern
History,
Restoration
Quarterly,
Journal
of
East
Tennessee
History,
Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly
Georgia
Historical
Quarterly.
Refereed
manuscripts
for
University
of
Georgia
Press,
University
of
Alabama
Press,
The
University
of
Tennessee
Press.
“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,”
Georgia
Historical
Quarterly,
1994.]
“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,
Little
Rock,
Arkansas,
March
1989.
“Tennessee
History
Book
Award,
1988.”
Sponsored
by
the
Tennessee
Library
Association
and
the
Tennessee
Historical
Commission.
“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
BOOKS
Who’s
Who
in
America,
2002,
2003
(Marquis
Who’s
Who
Twenty‐first
Century
Edition,
2002,
2002).
Professional
Service
Award,
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences,
Abilene
Christian
University,
spring
2000.
Andrew
Mellon
Research
Fellowship,
Virginia
Historical
Society,
Richmond,
June
1995.
Designated
the
T.
K.
Ann
Endowed
Professor
at
The
Johns
Hopkins
University‐Nanjing
University
Center
for
Chinese
and
American
Studies,
Nanjing,
Peoples’s
Republic
of
China
for
1993‐94.
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,
Abilene
Christian
University,
1985,
1986,
1987,
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1995,
1997,
1998,
2000
Book‐In
Progress
“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
United
States.
These
works
not
only
justified
the
Southern
cause
in
1861,
but
it
also
perpetuated
the
South’s
peculiar
and
retrogressive
customs
of
class
and
race.
Books
Class
and
Tennessee’s
Confederate
Generation.
Chapel
Hill:
The
University
of
North
Carolina
Press,1987.
William
Edward
Dodd:
The
South’s
Yeoman
Scholar.
Charlottesville:
University
Press
of
Virginia,1997.
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
EDITED
VOLUMES
“Charles
W.
Ramsdell,
Scientific
History,
and
the
Quest
for
a
Suitable
South,”
forthcoming
in
John
David
Smith,
ed.,
William
Dunning,
His
Students,
and
their
Legacy
(University
of
Kentucky
Press.)
“M.
E.
Bradford,
the
Reagan
Right,
and
the
Resurgence
of
Confederate
Nationalism,”
Glenn
Feldman,
ed.,
Painting
Dixie
Red:
When,
Where,
Why,
and
How
the
South
Became
Republican
(University
of
Georgia
Press,
2010),
291‐313.
“That
Which
God
Hath
Put
Asunder”:
Southern
Baptists,
Race,
and
Social
Order,
1890‐1920,”
Glenn
Feldman,
ed.,
Religion
and
Politics
in
the
Twentieth
Century
South
(University
of
Kentucky
Press).
“Free
Speech
and
the
‘Lost
Cause’
in
the
Old
Dominion,”
Kevin
Hardwick,
ed.
Virginia
Reconsidered: New Histories of the Old Dominion, (University of Virginia Press, 2003).
“E.
Merton
Coulter”
and
“Charles
S.
Sydnor”
in
Glenn
Feldman,
ed.,
Making
Southern
History:
Twentieth
Century
Historians
and
their
Culture
(University
of
Alabama
Press,
2001).
“Tennessee’s
Antebellum
Common
Man,”
in
Readings
in
Tennessee
History,
(Knoxville:
University
of
Tennessee
Press,
1998).
“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.,
Joplin,
Missouri:
College
Press,
1995).
“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.,
Easley,
S.C.:
Southern
and
Historical
Press,1985),
viii‐ix.
ARTICLES
“The
Southern
Historical
Association
and
the
Quest
for
Racial
Justice,
1954‐1963,”
The
Journal
of
Southern
History,
LXXI
(November
2005),
833‐52.
“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,”
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers,
LV
(2001),
55‐71.
“What
Southern
Patricians
‘Knew’
about
the
Negro:
Race
Ideology
in
the
Missionary
Quests
of
Lucinda
and
Mary
Helm,”
The
Register
of
the
Kentucky
Historical
Society,
XC
(Winter
2001),
53‐68..
“John
Trotwood
Moore
and
the
Patrician
Cult
of
the
New
South,”
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly,
LVIII
(Spring
1999),
16‐33.
“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
Arkansas,”
Arkansas
Historical
Quarterly,
LV
(Summer
1996),
143‐66.
“Tennessee’s
Antebellum
Common
Man,”
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly,
LV
(Spring
1996),
40‐
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,”
Georgia
Historical
Quarterly,
LXXVIII
(fall
1994),
509‐35.
“Free
Speech
and
the
‘Lost
Cause’
in
Texas:
A
Study
of
Censorship
and
Social
Control
in
the
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
University
of
Florida:
The
Enoch
M.
Banks
Case,”
Florida
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
Alabama
Review,
XLV
(April
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
South
Tennessee,”
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly,
XLV
(Winter
1986),
273‐
87.
“Class
and
Tennessee’s
Confederate
Generation,”
Journal
of
Southern
History,
LI
(February
1985),
31‐60.
“Tennessee’s
Antebellum
Culture
from
the
Bottom
Up,”
Journal
of
Southern
Studies,
XXII
(fall
1983),
260‐73.
“The
Poor,
Plain
Folk,
and
Planters:
A
Social
Analysis
of
Middle
Tennessee
Respondents
to
the
Civil
War
Veterans
Questionnaires,”
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers,
XXXVI
(1982),
39‐
54.
“Caste
and
the
Classroom
in
Antebellum
Tennessee,”
Maryland
Historian,
XII
(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
Tennessee’s
Agricultural
College,”
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly,
XXXVI
(spring
1977),
44‐61.
“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
Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
John
A.
Simpson,
S.
A.
Cunningham
and
the
Confederate
Heritage,
in
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly,
LIV
(1995).
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?
Plantation
Belt
and
Upcountry
in
Civil
War‐Era
Tennessee,
in
North
Carolina
Historical
Review,
LXXII(July
1995).
S.
Charles
Bolton,
Territorial
Ambition:
Land
and
Society
in
Arkansas,
1800‐1840,
in
The
Journal
of
Southern
History,
LXI
(February
1995).
Stuart
McConnell,
Glorious
Contentment:
The
Grand
Army
of
the
Republic,1865‐
1900
in
The
North
Carolina
Historical
Review,
LXX
(January
1993).
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
Georgia
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
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers,
No.43
(1989).
Ellen
Rosenberg,
The
Southern
Baptists:
A
Subculture
in
Transition
in
the
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers,
No.
43
(1989).
Howard
Dorgan,
Giving
Glory
to
God
in
Appalachia:
Worship
Practices
of
Six
Baptist
Subdenominations
in
the
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers
(1988).
Stephen
V.
Ash,
Middle
Tennessee
Society
Transformed
1860‐1870:
War
and
Peace
in
the
Upper
South
in
the
Georgia
Historical
Quarterly
(April
1989).
Richard
G.
Lowe
and
Randolph
B.
Campbell,
Planters
and
Plain
Folk:
Agriculture
in
Antebellum
Texas
in
the
Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly
(April
1989).
Michael
O’Brien,
Rethinking
the
South:
Essays
in
Intellectual
History
in
the
North
Carolina
Historical
Review
(Fall
1988).
Fredrick
F.
Siegel,
Roots
of
Southern
Distinctiveness:
Tobacco
and
Society
in
Danville,
Virginia,
1780‐1865
in
the
Journal
of
Southern
History
(November
1988).
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
(Georgia)
Telegraph‐News,
1960‐1965
in
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
North
Carolina
Historical
Review
(July
1984).
Ronald
D.
Eller,
Miners,
Millhands,
and
Mountaineers:
Industrialization
of
the
Appalachian
South
in
the
West
Tennessee
Historical
Society
Papers
(1983).
Summary
Review
of
Charles
F.
Bryan,
Jr.,
“East
Tennessee
and
the
Civil
War”
(Ph.D.
dissertation,
University
of
Tennessee)
in
the
Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly
(Spring
1983).
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ENTRIES
“E.
Merton
Coulter
(1890‐1981),”
The
New
Georgia
Encyclopedia
(Athens,
Georgia:
University
of
Georgia
Press, 2003 [Web-based encyclopedia]).
“Frank
Lawrence
Owsley,”
in
Charles
Reagan
Wilson,
et.
al,
Encyclopedia
of
Southern
Culture,
2nd
edition.
“Charles
S.
Sydnor”
forthcoming
in
Encyclopedia
of
Mississippi
History.
Six
biographical
sketches
of
Tennessee
political
leaders
forthcoming
in
Sharp
and
Sharp,
eds.,
Biographical
Directory
of
American
Legislative
Leaders
(Greenwood
Press,
1999).
“Frank
Lawrence
Owsley,”
“Patrons
of
Husbandry,”
“Tennessee
Civil
War
Veterans
Questionnaires;”
in
Carroll
Van
West,
ed.,
The
Tennessee
Encyclopedia
of
History
and
Culture
(Nashville:
Tennessee
Historical
Society),
1998).
“J.
Edgar
Hoover,”
“Douglas
MacArthur,”
in
Anne
Cipriano
Venzon,
ed.,
The
United
States
in
the
First
World
War,
An
Encyclopedia
(New
York:
Garland
Publishing,
Inc.,
1995).
“Little
Rock,
1860‐1877"
(1500
words),
“Arkansas,
1860‐1877"
(2000
words).
“The
Arkansas
Campaign,
March
23‐May
3,1864"
(2000
words),
“Knoxville
and
Greenville
Conventions”
(500
words),
“Oliver
Perry
Temple”
(250
words),
“Alvan
Cullen
Gilliam”
(500
words),
in
Richard
M.
Current
and
others
eds.,
Encyclopedia
of
the
Confederacy
(New
York:
Simon
and
Schuster,
1993).
“David
Lipscomb
University”
(1500
words),
“Thomas
Roderick
Dew”
(1000
words),
“Disciples
of
Christ”
(1500
words),
“William
Edward
Dodd”
(1000
words),
“Abilene,
Texas,”
(1000
words)
published
and
forthcoming
in
Encyclopedia
USA
(Gulf
Breeze,
Florida:
Academic
International
Press).
“Jimmy
Durante”
(1500
words)
Dictionary
of
American
Biography
(New
York:
Charles
Scribner’s
Sons
1995).
“Class”
(2000
words),
“William
H.
McGuffey”
(1000
words),
Reader’s
Guide
to
American
History
(London:
Fitzroy
Dearborn
Publishers,
1997).
PROFESSIONAL
PAPERS
“The Cultural Consequences of Southern History: John Hope Franklin, E. Merton Coulter, and
the Civil Rights Crusade,” Olomouc Symposium in American History, Palacky University,
Czech Republic, September 2007.
“After Populism: Redeemer History and Social Control in New South Alabama,” Mitchell McPherson Lecture on Southern History, Troy University, Troy, Alabama, November 14,
2006.
“The Cultural Consequences of Southern History: E. Merton Coulter, John Hope Franklin, and
the Civil Rights Crusade,” Rethinking American History from Transnational Perspectives:
An International Symposium, Nankai University, Tianjin, Peoples’s Republic of China,
August 12, 2006.
“All Men are Not Created Equal: M. E. Bradford, the Radical Right, and the Regan Revolution,”
British Association for American Studies, Kent University, Canterbury, United Kingdom,
April 2006.
"How Heritage became Hate: Mississippi's Quest for a Suitable Past, 1890 to the Present."
The Walter M. and Evalynn Burress
Lecture
Series,
Howard
Payne
University,
Brownwood,
Texas,
October
2005.
“Southern
Historians,
Their
Association,
and
the
Quest
for
Racial
Justice,”
keynote
address,
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
November
2004.
“Southern Baptist and the Lingering Influence of Slavery: Clergy, Class, and Social Order, 1890 to 1920,”
before the Pruit Memorial Symposium, Slavery, Oppression, and Prejudice: Ancient Roots and
Modern Implications, Baylor University, September 2004.
“C.
Vann
Woodward
and
the
Transformation
of
Southern
Historiography”
before
the
British
Association
of
American
Studies
Convention,
Manchester,
England,
April
2004.
“The
Dark
Side
of
Donald
Davidson:
A
Southern
Intellectual’s
Defense
of
White
Supremacy,”
British
Association
of
American
Studies
Convention,
Oxford,
England,
April
2001.
“The
Dark
Side
of
Donald
Davidson:
A
Southern
Intellectual’s
Defense
of
White
Supremacy,”
Southwestern
Social
Science
Convention,
Fort
Worth,
Texas,
March
2001.
“M.
E.
Bradford
and
the
Resurgence
of
Confederate
Nationalism,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Lawrence,
Kansas,
September
2000.
“‘A
Ditch
to
Die
In’:
James
W.
Silver
and
Mississippi’s
Closed
Society,”
Citadel
Conference
on
the
South,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
April
2000.
“‘A
Ditch
to
Die
In’:
James
W.
Silver
and
Mississippi’s
Closed
Society,”
conference
on
“From
Sahara
to
Sunbelt?
Narratives
of
the
South
and
Southernness
in
the
Twentieth
Century,”
University
of
Nottingham,
United
Kingdom,
December
1999.
“Charles
W.
Sydnor
and
the
Southern
Search
for
a
Suitable
Past,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Springfield,
Missouri,
September
1999.
“The
Best
History
Money
Can
Buy:
The
Origins
of
the
Littlefield
Fund
for
the
Study
of
Southern
History,”
Texas
State
Historical
Association,
Dallas,
Texas,
March
1999.
“History
in
Service
to
the
South:
E.
Merton
Coulter
and
the
Quest
for
a
Suitable
Past,”
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
Birmingham,
Alabama,
November
1998.
“The
Work
among
the
Colored
Brethren:
Race,
Religion,
and
Social
Order
in
the
New
South,
1890‐1920,”
Conference
on
the
“Christ
Centered
South,”
Waco,
Texas,
October
1998.
“What
Southern
Patricians
“Knew”
about
the
Negro:
Race
Ideology
in
the
Missionary
Quests
of
Lucinda
and
Mary
Helm,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Fayetteville,
Arkansas,
September
1998.
“John
Trotwood
Moore
and
the
Patrician
Cult
of
the
Old
South,”
Southwestern
Social
Science
Convention,
Corpus
Christi,
Texas,
March
1998.
“The
Work
among
the
Colored
Brethren:
Race,
Religion,
and
Social
Order
in
the
New
South,”
Association
for
the
Study
of
Afro‐American
Life
and
History
Convention,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
October
1996.
“Thomas
Nelson
Page
and
the
Patrician
Cult
of
the
Old
South,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Topeka,
Kansas,
September
1996.
“Free
Speech
and
the
‘Lost
Cause’
in
Arkansas,”
at
the
Arkansas
Historical
Association
Convention,
Eureka
Springs,
Arkansas,
April
1995.
“Free
Speech
and
the
‘Lost
Cause’
in
the
Old
Dominion,
1895‐1920,”
at
the
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
Orlando,
Florida,
November
1993.
[Read
in
my
absence
by
Stephen
Ash.]
“Mildred
Lewis
Rutherford
and
the
Patrician
Cult
of
the
New
South,”
the
Gulf
States
Conference
of
Women’s
History,
Birmingham,
Alabama,
March
1993.
“The
‘Lost
Cause’
and
Social
Control
in
Texas:
A
Study
of
Historical
Censorship
in
the
New
South,”
the
Southwestern
Social
Science
Convention,
New
Orleans,
March
1993.
“The
Confederate
Societies
Versus
Professor
Enoch
M.
Banks:
A
Case
Study
of
Historical
Censorship
in
the
New
South,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Springfield,
Missouri,
September
1991.
“Class
Contrasts
in
the
Antebellum
Trans‐Mississippi
South,”
Southwestern
Historical
Association
Convention,
San
Antonio,
Texas,
March
1991.
“Confederate
Censorship
in
the
Post‐Civil
War
South:
A
Study
in
the
Use
of
History,”
the
North
Carolina
Historical
Association,
November
1990.
“A
Southern
Yeoman
in
Hitler’s
Court:
The
Tragic
Ambassadorship
of
William
Edward
Dodd,”
the
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
New
Orleans,
November
1990.
“Thomas
Perkins
Abernethy:
Defender
of
Aristocratic
Virtue,”
the
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
the
University
of
Arkansas,
Fayetteville,
September
1990.
“Confederate
Censorship
in
the
Post
Civil
War
South,”
presented
before
The
Conference
on
The
Civil
War:
Perspectives
from
125
Years,
at
the
University
of
Arkansas,
Fayetteville,
March
1990.
“William
Edward
Dodd:
The
South’s
Yeoman
Historian,”
the
Southwestern
Association
Convention,
Little
Rock,
Arkansas,
March
1989.
“Presenting
Media
in
History
Day
Competition,”
The
Texas
State
Historical
Association
Convention,
Lubbock,
Texas,
March
1989.
“The
Social
Dynamics
of
Southern
Disciple
Women,
1865‐1906,”
Texas
State
Historical
Association,
Galveston,
Texas,
March
1987.
“‘Vinegar
on
the
Yankee
Raw
Spots’:
Frank
Lawrence
Owsley,
Historian
and
Polemicist,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
The
University
of
Arkansas,
Fayetteville,
Arkansas,
September
1986.
“Genesis
of
a
Southern
Apologist:
Frank
L.
Owsley’s
Early
Years,”
Southwest
Historical
Association
Convention,
San
Antonio,
Texas,
March
1986.
“Plain
Folk
and
Apologist:
Frank
Owsley’s
Defense
of
the
South,”
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
Houston,
Texas,
November
1985.
“The
Women
Preaching
Controversy
in
the
Restoration
Movement,
1869‐1893,”
The
Christian
Scholars
Conference,
Abilene
Christian
University,
Abilene,
Texas,
July
1985.
“Class
and
Tennessee’s
Confederate
Soldiers,“
the
Citadel
Conference
on
the
South,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
April
1985.
“Presenting
Local
History,”
The
Tennessee
Heritage
Alliance,
Memphis,
Tennessee,
September
1984.
“The
Dilemma
of
Women’s
Education
in
the
Restoration
Movement,”
The
Pepperdine
University
Lectureships,
Malibu,
California,
April
1984.
“Three
Tennesseans
in
Search
of
the
Antebellum
Common
Man,”
The
Tennessee
Conference
of
Historians,
Johnson
City,
Tennessee,
March
1984.
“Caste
and
the
Classroom
in
Antebellum
Tennessee,”
Tennessee
Conference
of
Historians,
Memphis,
Tennessee,
April
1982.
“Caste
and
the
Classroom
in
Antebellum
Tennessee,”
The
Organization
of
American
Historians
Convention,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
March
1982.
“Tennessee’s
Antebellum
Society
from
the
Bottom
Up,”
The
Duquesne
University
History
Forum,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
October
1981.
“The
Poor,
Plain
Folk,
and
Planters:
A
Social
Analysis
of
Middle
Tennessee
Respondents
to
the
Civil
War
Veterans
Questionnaires,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
Springfield,
Missouri,
September
1981.
“The
Dilemma
of
Women’s
Education
in
the
Restoration
Movement,”
The
Christian
Scholars
Conference,
Abilene
Christian
University,
Abilene,
Texas,
July
1981.
“Disciples,
Demon
Rum,
and
Women
Voters:
The
Expediency
of
Female
Suffrage,
1865‐1900,”
Berkshire
Conference
on
Women’s
History,
Poughkeepsie,
New
York,
June
1981.
“Social
Distinctions
in
the
Antebellum
Cotton
Country,”
The
Citadel
Conference
on
the
South,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
April
1981.
“Oliver
Perry
Temple
and
the
Rugby
Experiment,”
The
East
Tennessee
Historical
Society,
Knoxville,
Tennessee,
February
1972.
PANELS
AND
CHAIRS
Panelist,
“Could
the
South
Have
Won
the
Civil
War,”
Mid‐America
History
Conference,
September
2010.
Respondent,
“The
NAACP
on
the
Local
Level,”
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
November
2008.
Chair,
“Religion, Intellectual Life, and the Slave South,” Mid-America Conference on History,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 2007.
Chair
and
respondent,
“Race
and
Religious
Themes
in
Twentieth
Century
America,”
Southwestern
Social
Studies
Convention,
Corpus
Christi,
Texas,
March
1998.
Chair
and
respondent,
“Class
and
the
Antebellum
South,”
Mid‐America
Conference
on
History,
Stillwater,
Oklahoma,
September
1998.
Respondent,
“Southern
Women,”
Mid‐America
Conference
on
History,
Springfield,
Missouri,
September
1995.
Chair
and
respondent,
“Southern
Communities,”
Southwestern
Historical
Association
Conference,
Dallas,
Texas,
March
1995.
Chair
and
respondent,
“Religion
in
America,”
Southwestern
Historical
Association
Conference,
Austin,
Texas,
March
1992.
Respondent,
“Poor
Whites
in
the
Occupied
Confederacy,”
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
Norfolk,
Virginia,
November
1988.
Respondent,
“American
Imperialism
in
the
Twentieth
Century,”
Southwestern
Historical
Association
Conference,
Dallas,
Texas,
March
1987.
Chair,
“Planning
for
Inquiry,”
The
Texas
Council
for
the
Social
Studies
Convention,
Abilene,
Texas,
October
1986.
Respondent,
“Genealogical
Skills
and
the
Professional
Historian,”
The
Louisiana
State
historical
Association
Convention,
Shreveport,
Louisiana,
February
1986.
Chair,
“The
Restoration
Idea
in
American
History,”
Conference
on
the
Restoration
Theme
in
American
Religion,
Abilene
Christian
University,
Abilene,
Texas,
July
1985.
Respondent,
“Two
Episodes
in
Early
Virginia
History,”
Duquesne
University
History
Forum,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
October
1983.
Respondent,
“The
Church
and
Public
Issues
in
the
1980's,”
Christian
Scholars
Conference,
Abilene
Christian
University,
Abilene,
Texas,
July
1983.
Respondent,
“Conflict
within
the
Civil
War
South,”
Southern
Historical
Association
Convention,
Memphis,
Tennessee,
November
1982.
NATIONAL
HISTORY
DAY
PROGRAM
(1983‐1989)
Director,
BIG
COUNTRY
REGIONAL
HISTORY
FAIR,
Abilene
Christian
University,
1984‐1989.
Student
Achievement
in
National
History
Day
Competition
1985
Fourth
Senior
Individual
Projects
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Individual
Projects
Texas
History
Day
1986
Second
Senior
Individual
Drama
Texas
History
Day
Second
Junior
Essay
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Individual
Projects
Texas
History
Day
Superior
Rating
Junior
Essay
National
History
Day
1987
First
Senior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
First
Junior
Group
Media
Texas
History
Day
First
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
history
Day
Second
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Second
Junior
Individual
Projects
Texas
History
Day
Second
Junior
Essays
Texas
History
Day
Third
Senior
Individual
Drama
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Group
Project
Texas
History
Day
Texas
Women’s
Award
Senior
Individual
Drama
Texas
History
Day
Colonial
Award
Junior
Group
Project
Texas
History
Day
Second
Junior
Individual
Media
National
History
Day
Superior
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
Texas
History
Day
First
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Third
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Essay
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Individual
Drama
Texas
History
Day
Texas
Women’s
Award
Junior
Individual
Project
Texas
History
Day
Oral
History
Award
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Second
Junior
Individual
Media
National
History
Day
Third
Senior
Essay
National
History
Day
1989
First
Junior
Individual
Projects
Texas
History
Day
First
Junior
Group
Media
Texas
History
Day
Third
Junior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Third
Junior
Group
Drama
Texas
History
Day
Third
Senior
Group
Project
Texas
History
Day
Third
Senior
Individual
Media
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Junior
Essay
Texas
History
Day
Fourth
Senior
Group
Media
Texas
History
Day
Colonial
History
Award
Junior
Individual
Project
Texas
History
Day
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,
Abilene
Christian
University,
October,
1984,
1985,
1986,
1987,
1988.
Student
Workshops
for
History
Day,
Abilene
Christian
University,
November,
1984,1985,
1986,
1987.
Media
Workshop
for
History
Day,
Abilene
Christian
University,
October‐November,
1986,
October
1987,
October
1988.
Classroom
Workshops:
average
speaking
to
3000
middle
and
high
school
students
in
their
classrooms,
1984‐89.
Extra
Regional
Workshops:
Stanton
Independent
School
District,
Stanton,
Texas,
February
1985.
Texas
State
Social
Studies
Council,
Abilene,
Texas,
October
1986.
Seguin
Independent
School
District,
Seguin,
Texas,
February
1987.
Topic
Ideas
for
Texas
State
History
Day,
The
University
of
Texas,
Austin,
1987,
1988,
1989.
History
Media,
Austin
Area
Schools,
Pfulgerville,
Texas,
October
1987.
San
Antonio
Independent
School
Districts,
San
Antonio,
Texas,
October
1987.
History
Media
Workshop,
Baylor
University,
Waco,
Texas,
August
1989.
History
Media
Workshop,
San
Antonio
Area
Independent
School
Districts,
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
West
Tennessee
Regional
History
Fair,
Jackson,
Tennessee,
1983,
1984.
Texas
State
History
Day,
Austin,
Texas,
1985,
1986,
1987,
1988,
1989.
Instructed
media
judges,
1987,
1988,
1989.
National
History
Day,
College
Park,
Maryland,
1985,
1986,
1987,
1988,
1989.
M.
A.
THESES
GUIDED
(ABILENE
CHRISTIAN
UNIVERSITY)
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 Madison County, Tennessee, 1850-1860.
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
2009‐2010
Department
chair
2008‐2009
Department
chair
2007‐2008
Department
chair
Candidate
Review
Committee,
Jack
Pope
Fellows
Program
2006‐2007
Department
chair
Candidate
Review
Committee,
Jack
Pope
Fellows
Program
Faculty
Renewal
leave
spring
2007
2005‐2006
Department
chair
Candidate
Review
Committee,
Jack
Pope
Fellows
Program
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
Abilene
Christian
University
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
College
of
Liberal
Arts
Curriculum
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
College
of
Liberal
Arts
Curriculum
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
College
of
Liberal
Arts
Committee
on
Faculty
College
of
Liberal
Arts
Curriculum
Council
Department
Supervisor
of
Student
Employees
Department
Administrator
of
CLEP
Examinations
1988‐89
University
Research
Council
College
of
Liberal
Arts
Committee
on
Faculty
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,
AUSTRIA,
FRANCE,
THE
CZECH
REPUBLIC,
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.