CURRICULUM VITAE
William J. Rorabaugh
University of Washington
History Box 353560
315 Smith Hall
Seattle WA 98195-3560
5-13
work: (206) 543-9856 - fax: (206) 543-9451
home: (206) 525-9390
email: rorabaug@uw.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1976 - History
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1970 - History
A.B. Stanford University, 1968 - History (Honors)
BOOKS
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (NY: Oxford U. Press, 1979). One chapter excerpted in
The New Republic, Sept. 29, 1979. Oxford paperback, 1981.
The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age (NY: Oxford U. Press, 1986). Awarded the
1986 Old Sturbridge Village Research Library Society-E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize. Oxford
paperback, 1988.
Berkeley at War: The 1960s (NY: Oxford U. Press, 1989). Oxford paperback, 1990. Brief extract in
National Humanities Center, Newsletter, 12 #1 (Fall-Winter 1990-91), 18-19.
Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press, 2002). Cambridge
paperback, 2004. Spanish ed.: Kennedy y el sueno do los sesenta (Barcelona: Paidos, 2005).
The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (Lawrence: U. Press of
Kansas, 2009). Kansas paperback, 2012.
TEXT BOOK
America: A Concise History (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1994). A coauthored textbook. (I wrote ch. 1-15,
on the Ice Age through Reconstruction.) 2nd ed. published as America’s Promise (Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2004).
CURRENT PROJECT
The Hippie Counterculture. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
ARTICLES
“The Origins of the Washington State Liquor Control Board, 1934,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 100:4
(2009), 159-68.
“Did Prosperity Contribute to the South’s Abandonment of the Democratic Party?” Journal of Policy
History, 17:4 (2005), 425-32.
“Drinking in the ‘Thin Man’ Films, 1934-1947,” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, 18 (2003), 51-68.
"The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan," in The Free Speech Movement, ed. Robert Cohen and
Reginald Zelnik (Berkeley: U. Calif. Press, 2002), 511-18. New material related to my Berkeley book.
"Moral Character, Policy Effectiveness, and the Presidency: The Case of JFK," Journal of Policy History,
10:4 (1998), 445-60.
"Alcohol History: Personal Reflections," Social History of Alcohol Review, No. 32-33 (Spring-Fall 1996),
11-16.
"Reexamining the Prohibition Amendment," Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 8:1 (Winter 1996),
285-94. Review essay.
"Challenging Authority, Seeking Community, and Empowerment in the New Left, Black Power, and
Feminism," Journal of Policy History, 8:1 (1996), 106-143.
"Liberals and Conservatives," Journal of Policy History, 7:4 (1995), 473-478. Review essay.
"The Political Duel in the Early Republic: Burr v. Hamilton," Journal of the Early Republic, 15:1 (Spring
1995), 1-23. SHEAR presidential address.
"I Thought I Should Liberate Myself from the Thraldom of Others": Apprentices, Masters, and the
Revolution," in Beyond the Revolution, ed. Alfred F. Young (DeKalb: N. Ill, 1993), 185-217. Expanded
from my book.
"The Berkeley Free Speech Movement," in True Stories from the American Past, ed. William Graebner
(NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 197-216. Based on material in my book.
"The Meaning of the Civil War," Reviews in American History, 21:1 (Mar. 1993), 51-56. Review essay.
"Alcohol in America," Magazine of History, 6:2 (Fall 1991), 17-19. An overview from the 1600s to the
present.
"The Berkeley Free Speech Movement," in New Directions in California History, ed. James J. Rawls
(NY: McGraw-Hill, 1988), 331-47. Also based on material in my book.
"Beer, Lemonade, and Propriety in the Gilded Age," in Dining in America, 1850-1900, ed. Kathryn
Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press for the Strong Museum, 1987), 24-46.
"Who Fought for the North in the Civil War? Concord, Massachusetts, Enlistments," Journal of American
History, 73 (1986), 695-701.
"When Was Joel Chandler Harris Born? Some New Evidence," Southern Literary Journal, 17 (1984), 9295.
"Prohibition as Progress: New York State's License Elections, 1846," Journal of Social History, 14 (1981),
425-443.
"The Sons of Temperance in Antebellum Jasper County," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 64 (1980), 26379.
"Rising Democratic Spirits: Immigrants, Temperance, and Tammany Hall, 1854-1860," Civil War
History, 22 (1976), 138-57.
"Estimated U.S. Alcoholic Beverage Consumption, 1790-1860," Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 37 (1976),
357-64.
"Politics and the Architectural Competition for the Houses of Parliament, 1834-1837," Victorian Studies,
17 (1973), 155-75.
24 essays for various reference works.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Distinguished Visiting NEH Professor, U. of Richmond, Fall 2004
Theodore Sorensen Fellow, Kennedy Library, 1992
Keller Fund for Research, Summer 1988, 1991, 1996
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle NC, 1983-84
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
Huntington Library, San Marino CA, Summer 1980
Newberry Library, Chicago, Summer 1979
Univ. of Wash. Research Fund, summers 1978, 1982
Wash. State Alcohol Institute, summer 1977
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Historical Association (Pacific Coast Branch nominating committee, 1986; chair, 1987)
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (advisory council, 1981-87; program chair, 1983;
president, 1993-1994; nominating committee, chair, 1996; editorial board, Journal of the Early Republic,
1987-91)
ed. board, History of Education Quarterly, 1995-1997
Alcohol and Temperance History Group (board, 1983-86, 2001- ; president, 2006-08)
Association of Washington Historians (president, 1991-92).
Managing Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Aug. 2003-Sept. 2008 (on leave, 2006-07).
85 professional presentations since 1985.
MSS evaluated for 17 journals and 15 university presses.
70 published book reviews, 4 review essays, 3 film reviews, 1 art exhibition review.
TEACHING RECORD
1987- Professor of History, Univ. of Wash. Seattle WA
1982-87 Associate Professor, UW
1977-82 Assistant Professor, UW
1976-77 Visiting Assistant Professor, UW