Education:
Ph.D., University
of Chicago, 2002
Research Interests:
United States
political history; business history;
military-industrial relations.
Recent Publications:
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"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, ed. Christopher Tomlins, and Michael
Grossberg (New York: Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming).
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The Business of Civil War: Military
Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
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“The Politics of Procurement: Military Origins
of Bureaucratic Autonomy,” Journal of
Policy History 18 (2006), 45-75.
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“Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses,
1820-2000” [principal compiler], in The
Encyclopedia of Chicago, ed. James R.
Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L.
Reiff (University of Chicago Press, 2004),
909-953.
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“Gentlemanly Price-Fixing and Its Limits:
Collusion and Competition in the U.S.
Explosives Industry during the Civil War Era,”
Business History Review 77 (Summer
2003), 207-234.
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“The Extensive Side of Nineteenth-Century
Military Economy: The Tent Industry in the
Northern United States during the Civil War,”
Enterprise & Society 2 (June 2001),
297-337.
Current Projects:
I
expect to be working for the next several years on
a new history of the business and politics of the
U.S. industrial mobilization for the Second World
War.
Courses Taught:
Current
semester:
(Fall 2006)
Required textbooks
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- HIST 1161, US History II
- HIST 2125, Democracy in America
- HIST 4000, The New Deal
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Previous
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- HIST 2125, Democracy in America
- HIST 4000, New Deal
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