Professor Emeritus

Research and Teaching Fields: Recent America, history of science, American historiography

Education:

• B.A., College of William and Mary, 1957
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1959
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1962.

UAB Service, 1970-1981

• 1988-1995: Chair, Department of History

Select Publications

• Progressive Politics and Conservation: The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair. University of Chicago Press, 1968.
• The Politics of American Science, 1939 to the Present. Rand McNally, 1965 (co-editor).
• The New Madrid Earthquakes. University of Missouri Press, 1976.
• The Great Western Land Pirate: John A Murrell in Legend and History. University of Missouri Press, 1981.
• “Carl Becker and the Jewel of Inconsistency,” Antioch Review, 1986.
• “James Copeland and Sheriff Pitts: A Gulf Coast legend,” Gulf Coast Historical Review, 1987.

Select Grants, and Fellowships

• Social Science Research Council, 1968.
• American Philosophical Society, 1978.

Select Honors

• Professor of the Year Award, Loyola University, Chicago, 1986-1987