Publications
• "United States, 1914-1929." In Stephen J. Whitfield, ed.,
Blackwell Companion to
Twentieth-Century America (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
• "Public Memory." In George T. Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnella E. Butler, and Jay Mechling,
eds., Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier/American Studies Association, 2001),
Vol. 3.
• "Pioneers and Padres: Competing Mythologies in Northern and Southern California,
1850-1930." Western Historical Quarterly
32 (2001).
• "Was the Progressive Movement Really 'Progressive'?" In Robert Allison, ed.,
History in Dispute (St. James Press, 2000)
• Over 100 entries in Marc Leepson, ed.,
Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam
War (Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1999) and in Stanley I. Kutler, ed.,
The Encyclopedia
of the Vietnam War (Simon & Schuster, 1996).
• "Political Culture: Genealogy of a
Concept." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (1997)
• U.S. History chronology, presidential biographies, and other entries in John W. Wright, ed.,
The New York Times Almanac (Penguin Reference, all eds. 1997-Present)
• "Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the Braves."
Business History Review 69
(1995).
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Biography
Born in Oakland, I graduated from Palo Alto High School and the
University of California, Berkeley, before leaving the Bay Area to start a far-ranging academic odyssey. I endured mid-western winters to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I endured southern summers when I taught at the
University of Georgia and at the Tulane University in New
Orleans. I experienced Southern California when I was a postdoctoral fellow at the
University of California, Irvine. I spent several years teaching at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne before coming home to the Bay Area at last. I have published articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and reviews on subjects ranging from California mythology to the baseball business. I am at work on a book manuscript about the progressive movement in California in the early twentieth century. I am delighted to teach California students about California history and other subjects dear to my heart. |
