Mark R. Wilson

Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC  28223-0001

Office phone: 704-687-3869
email: mrwilson@uncc.edu

    
       
 

Research

    
  Recent Publications    
 

Book
●The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)

    
  Articles and Book Chapters
●"Law and the American State, From the Revolution to the Civil War: Institutional Growth and Structural Change," in The Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1920), ed. Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 1-35, 697-705.		    
  ●"The Politics of Procurement: Military Origins of Bureaucratic Autonomy." Journal of Policy History 18 (2006): 45-75.    
  ●"Gentlemanly Price-Fixing and Its Limits: Collusion and Competition in the U.S. Explosives Industry during the Civil War Era."  Business History Review 77 (2003): 207-234.    
  ●"The Extensive Side of Nineteenth-Century Military Economy: The Tent Industry in the Northern United States during the Civil War."  Enterprise & Society 2 (2001): 297-337.
 		    
  Current Research Interests:  I am presently investigating the development of American government-business relations during the U.S. industrial mobilization for the Second World War.    
       
 

Teaching

    
  Note: I am on leave during the 2008-09 academic year.

My Courses
History 2125: Democracy in America
     Syllabus, Spring 2008 (PDF)
History 1161: US History II (since 1865)
     Syllabus, Spring 2008 (PDF)

    
  History 3000: The US Home Front in World War II
     Syllabus, Fall 2007 (PDF)		    
  History 4000: The New Deal
     Syllabus, Fall 2007 (PDF)
     Library website for this course (provides many useful links to electronic sources)
     Library resources for research papers (PDF)		    
  History 3797: Honors Methods & Practice
    Syllabus, Spring 2007 (PDF)		    
  History 6000: The Making of Modern America, 1886-1960
    Syllabus, Spring 2007 (PDF)

 

    
 

General Resources for Students

UNCC History Dept. Student Help Page

UNCC Writing Resources Center (help with writing and research skills)

UNCC Center for Academic Excellence (help with study skills and tutoring)

How Much Is That Worth In Real Money?  (EH.Net guide to the changing value of the US dollar and British pound)