Education:

  Ph.D. History 1999- University of North Carolina
  Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  J.D. 1989 - Duke University School of Law
  Durham, North Carolina

  M.A. History 1992- University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, Massachusetts

  B.A. 1986- Skidmore College
  Saratoga Springs, New York

Publications:

Book:

"Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era." ( LSU Press, 2003) (Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War, T. Michael Parrish, Series Editor).

          Winner of the George Tyler Moore Civil War Center's 2004 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship
               
          Winner of the 2005 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award.

          2004 New Jersey Council For The Humanities Honor Book

Articles:

"Melancholy Justice: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Gilded Age," in the Journal of Supreme Court History 33(Summer 2008): 134-148.

"The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans," in Civil War History 51(June 2005): 135-150.

"Obstructing Reconstruction: John A. Campbell and the Legal Campaign against Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868-1873," in Civil War History, 49(September 2003): 235-253.

"Resisting the New South: Commercial Crisis and Decline in New Orleans, 1865-1885," in American Nineteenth Century History, 4(Spring 2003): 59-76.

"Justice for Iowa: The Appointment of Samuel Freeman Miller to the United States Supreme Court During the Civil War," in the Annals of Iowa, 60(Spring 2001):111-138. 

            Winner of the State Historical Society of Iowa's 2002 Throne/Aldrich Prize for the best article in the Annals in 2001.

(with Stacy L. Braukman)  “Married Women’s Property and Male Coercion: United States Courts and the Role of the Privy Examination, 1860-1883,” in the Journal of Women’s History, 12 (Summer 2000): 57-80.

“Justice Miller’s Reconstruction: Civil Rights, Health Codes, the Slaughter-House Cases, and New Orleans, 1862-1873,” in the Journal of Southern History,  LXIV(November 1998): 649-676. 

            Co-Winner of the Southern Historical Association’s 2000 Fletcher M. Green and Charles M. Ramsdell Award for the
            best article in the Journal during the preceding two years.

"Justice Miller's Reconstruction: Civil Rights, Health Codes, the Slaughter-House Cases, and New Orleans, 1862-1873," also reprinted in Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., ed., New Orleans and Urban Louisiana, vol. XIV Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History (Lafayette, La: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2005), 156-178.

“Cases of Shattered Dreams: Justice Samuel Freeman Miller and the Rise and Fall of a Mississippi River Town,” in the Annals of Iowa, 57 (Summer 1998): 201-239. 

            Winner of the State Historical Society of Iowa’s 1999 Throne/Aldrich Prize for the best article in the Annals in 1998.

“Hill Country Doctor: The Early Life and Career of Supreme Court Justice Samuel F. Miller in Kentucky, 1816-1849,” in The Filson History Quarterly, Vol. 71 (October 1997): 430-462. 

            Winner of the Filson Historical Society’s Otto Rotthert Prize for the best article in the Quarterly in 1997.

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Loyalty Oaths,” in David Heidler, ed.,  Encyclopedia of the Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), 1230-1231.

Book Reviews:

Joseph A. Ranney, In The Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law.  Review forthcoming in the Journal of Southern History.

John Kukla, Mr. Jefferson's Women. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 4, 2007, p. D-6.

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 17, 2007, p. D-7.

Tom Smith, The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, The New Orleans ‘Mafia’ Trials, And The Parish Prison Mob. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 11, 2007, p. D-8, D-9.

Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 1, 2006, p. D-12.

Richard Campanella, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before The Storm.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 10, 2006, p. D-14.

Winston Groom, Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 30, 2006, p. D-6.

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Reviewed in the Western Historical Quarterly, 36 (Winter 2005): 520-521.

Dual Review of Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment and Earl M. Maltz, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution. Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History, 71 (November 2005): 914-916.

Richard Lowe, Walker’s Texas Division, C.S.A: Greyhounds of the Confederacy. Reviewed in Louisiana History, 47 (Fall 2005): 487-488.

William C. Davis, The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 22, 2005, p. D-6.

Armstead Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 20, 2005, p. D-7.

Bryant Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 26, 2004, p. D-7.

Alecia P. Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 4, 2004, pp. D-6, D-7.

Martha Ward, Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 28, 2004, p. D-8.

James W. Ely, Jr., Railroads & American Law. Reviewed in the Annals of Iowa, 62(Winter 2003): 110-112.

Alfred Lemmon, ed., Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 28, 2003, p. D-6.

Elizabeth Dale, The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago vs. Zephyr Davis, and Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White.  Dual review in the Law & History Review, 21(Summer 2003): 425-428.

Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 20, 2003, p. D-6.

Keith Weldon Medley, We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 25, 2003, p. D-4.

Jon Kukla, A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 13, 2003, p. D-4.

Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 27, 2002, p. D-7.

Stephen Ambrose, To America: Personal Reflections of A Historian. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 17, 2002, p. D-6.

Ted Tunnell, Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Reviewed in the Journal of American History, 89(September 2002): 645-646.

Richard Rubin, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 1, 2002, p. D-6.

Nathaniel Stone, On The Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 4, 2002, p.D-4.

David Cohen, Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 23, 2002, p. D-6, D-7.

Thomas Keneally, American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 9, 2002, p. D-6.

Pamela Brandwein, Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth.  Reviewed in the Law & History Review, 20(Summer 2002): 416-418.

Elizabeth Mullener, War Stories: Remembering World War II.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 12, 2002, p. D-7.

William Doyle, An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 13, 2002, p. D-6.

Elizabeth Urban Alexander, Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines.  Reviewed in the American Journal of Legal History, XLV(2001): 336-337.

Stephen Ochs, A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans.  Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History, 67(November 2001): 869-870.

Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., ed., Sir Henry Morgan Stanley, Confederate. Reviewed in Military History of the West, 31(Fall 2001): 150-151.

Ronald J. Drez, Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 9, 2001, p.D-9.

Mark Perry, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey From Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 18, 2001, p.D-7.

Curtis Wilkie, Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune (Sunday Book Section), September 23, 2001, p.D-6.

Stephen Ambrose, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 19, 2001, p. D-7.

Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality 1890-2000. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 12, 2001, p.D-8.

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 1, 2001, p.D-7.

Jay Winik, April 1865: The Month That Saved America. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 24, 2001, p.D-8.

Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 13, 2001, p.D-7.

Keith E. Whittington, Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning.  Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History, LXVII(February 2001): 167-168.

Paul Kens, Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation On Trial.  Reviewed in the Law & History Review, 18(Fall 2000): 707-708.

Andrei Codrescu, The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Essays.  Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 24, 2000, p. E-8.

James Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. Reviewed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 9, 2000, p. D-8.

Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860. Reviewed in The Southern Historian, Spring 1997.

John Niven,ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, vol.2 Correspondence, reviewed in The Southern Historian, Spring 1996.

John Niven,ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, vol.1 Journals. Reviewed in The Southern Historian, Spring 1995.

Papers:

"The Supreme Court and the Retreat From Reconstruction: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Scholarship."  Presented at the meeting of the Historical Society (Baltimore, Maryland, June 2008).

“The Abduction of Molly Digby: Race, Crime, and Reconstruction in New Orleans.” Presented at the Mid-America Conference on History (Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 2007).

"The Commemoration of Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans." Presented at the Louisiana Historical Association (Lafayette, LA, March 2005).

"Creating Consensus Through Coercion: The Commemoration of Lee's Death and the Construction of the 'Lost Cause' in New Orleans." Presented at the Southern Historical Association (Memphis, TN, November 2004).

"The Slaughter-House Cases in Historical Context." Presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (Amelia Island, Florida, July 2003).

" 'Murder, Corruption, & Misdeeds': Sensationalized Crimes and Trials and Whites' Efforts to Obstruct Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868-1877." Presented at the Organization of American Historians (Washington, DC, April 2002)

" 'Facing Our Future and Our Past': The Campaign to Bring Northern Capital Back to New Orleans, 1870-1890." Presented at the Southern Historical Association (New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2001)

"Obstructing Reconstruction: Whites' Use of the Courts to Fight Racial Justice in New Orleans, 1869-1877." Presented at the Louisiana Historical Association (Hammond, Louisiana, March 2001)

“‘The White Man’s Flag Must Be Upheld’: John A. Campbell and the Legal Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1866-1877.” Presented at the American Historical Association (Boston, January 2001)

“Justice Miller’s Reconstruction: Civil Rights, Health Codes, the Slaughter-House Cases, and New Orleans, 1862-1873.” Presented at the Southern Historical Association (Atlanta, Georgia, November 1997).

“Married Women’s Property and Spousal Coercion: The Supreme Court and the Role of the Privy Examination, 1860-1883.” Presented with Stacy L. Braukman at the Southern Women’s History Conference (Charleston, South Carolina, June 1997).

“Cases of Shattered Dreams: Justice Samuel Freeman Miller and the Rise and Fall of a Mississippi River Town.” Presented at the American Society for Legal History (Richmond, Virginia, October 1996).

“Fearing the People: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stephen J. Field and the Long Shadow of the California Vigilantes.” Presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference   (Omaha, Nebraska, March 1996).

Panel Comments:

Commentator, "The Second American Revolution and the State: Political Economic Developments during the Civil War Era." Organization of American Historians (Boston, Massachusetts, March 2004)

Commentator, "Reconstruction in Louisiana and the South." Louisiana Historical Association (Lafayette, La., March 2006)

Invited Lectures:

"New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the Burden of History." Phi Alpha Theta Farnsworth Lecture, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, April 10, 2008.

"Justice Samuel Freeman Miller: Melancholy Voice of the Gilded Age."  Supreme Court Historical Society's Leon Silverman Lecture, United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC, February 27, 2007.

"Terrorism in American History." Teaching American History Seminar, Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando, FL, December 3, 2005.

"Civil Liberties During Times of Crisis: The Case of Abraham Lincoln." Constitution Day Keynote Lecture, Kutztown State University, September 14, 2005.

 “The Infamous Slaughter-House Cases and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction.” Legal Studies Lecture Series, University of Texas at Dallas, September 9, 2004.

"Justified Tyrant?: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties during the Civil War." Phi Alpha Theta Farnsworth Lecture, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, April 8, 2004.

Dissertation:

“Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era.”  Co-Directors/ William Barney and Peter Coclanis.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

 Teaching Awards:

2004 Loyola University College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award

2001 Loyola University "1540 Society" Teaching Honoree.

1997 Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
 

Grants and Fellowships:

Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, 2008.

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Publishing Initiative Grant, 2007.

Loyola University Marquette Faculty Fellowship, 2005.

Loyola University Faculty Development Grant, 2003.

American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, 2002.

Loyola University Course Development Grant, Fall 2001

State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant, 1999- 2000.

George Mowry Grant, Department of History, University of  North Carolina, 1998

George Mowry Grant, Department of History, University of  North  Carolina, 1997

University of North Carolina Grant to Promote Technology in the Classroom, 1997

New Jersey Historical Commission Research  Grant, 1995-96

State Historical Society of Iowa Sesquicentennial Research Grant, 1995-96

Mellon Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1995

Teaching Assistantships, 1990-1998,
University of North Carolina, University of Massachusetts

Teaching Experience:

  Associate Professor, August 2003-present.
  Assistant Professor, August 1999-July 2003
  Loyola University New Orleans

   Courses and Areas of Specialization:
    Legal History I
    Legal History II
    Civil War & Reconstruction
    Gilded Age
    Age of Jackson
    US Survey to 1865
    US Survey 1865-Present
    American Trials
    American Character

  Instructor (with full responsibilities), Spring 1999
  History 251, Early Themes in American History
  (American History to 1877), North Carolina State University

  Instructor (with full responsibilities), Fall 1998
  History 22, United States History from 1865 to the Present
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professional Service:

  Manuscript Referee:
  American Nineteenth Century History, 2004
  Civil War History, 2004, 2005, 2007
  Journal of Southern History, 2000, 2002, 2005
  Journal of Urban History, 2008
  Law & Society Review, 2003, 2004, 2005
  Louisiana History, 2006
  Louisiana State University Press, 2004, 2007, 2008
  Southern Illinois University Press, 2006, 2007
  Yale University Press, 2005

  Advisory Council, 2004-Present
  Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College

  Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities/
  Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival
  Panel Moderator, 2006, 2008
  Grant Evaluator, 2002, 2004

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, June 2007
Teaching American History Grant
Institute Instructor
"The Civil War Era: From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction"

  Associate Editor, 1997-1999
  The Southern Historian

  American Historical Association Committee Member 1998-99
  Task Force on Graduate Education

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