Publications:
American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2003, 3 volumes), co-edited with William G. Shade.
The Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Wilmington,
DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000. Rowman and
Littlefield assumed imprint.). Editor and contributor,
volume of original essays. Hard cover and paper.
The Growth of American Government: Governance from the
Cleveland Era to the Present (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
1995). Hard cover and paperback.
Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern
Legislatures in the late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1980).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Economic Causes of Progressivism," Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era, vol. 4:1 (January, 2005). 7-22. Online @ at The History
Cooperative at subscribing libraries.
"Comparative Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,"
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 1:2 (April, 2002), 154-177.
Online @ at The History Cooperative at subscribing libraries.
"Richard Olney and the Pullman Strike," in Ballard C. Campbell,
ed., The Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era (Scholarly Resources, 2000), 69-84.
"Understanding Economic Change in the Gilded Age," OAH Magazine of History, 13 (1999), 16-20.
“Depressions and Politics in American History,” The Long
Term View: A Journal of Informed Opinion, 4 (1999), 13-21.
“Tax Revolts and Political Change,” Journal of Policy History,
10 (1998), 153-178. Reprinted in Loss of Confidence: Politics and Policy in
the 1970s, edited by David Brian Robertson (University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1998), 153-178.
"Public Policy and State Government," in Charles W. Calhoun,
ed., The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America
(Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996), 309-329. Revised Edition, 2006. Rowman and
Littlefield assumed the imprint).
"Federalism, State Action, and 'Critical Episodes' in the Growth of American Government," Social Science History, 16:4 (Winter, 1992), 561-578.
"Did Democracy Work? Prohibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa: A Test Case," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 8 (Summer, 1977), 87-116.
"The State Legislature in American History: A Review Essay," Historical Methods, 9 (September, 1976), 185-194.
"Ethnicity and the 1893 Wisconsin Assembly," Journal of American History, 63 (June, 1975), 74-94.
"The Goods Roads Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1911," Wisconsin Magazine
of History, 49 (Summer, 1966), 273-293. Reprinted
as a pamphlet, 1980.
Entries in Encyclopedia and Compendia
"Government, 1877-1920," in Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1920 (ME Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 2005).
"Election of 1940" in William G. Shade and Ballard C. Campbell,
American Presidential Elections and Campaigns (ME Sharpe, 2003),
757-67.
"Election of 1980" in William G. Shade and Ballard C. Campbell,
American Presidential Elections and Campaigns (ME Sharpe, 2003), 941-51.
“State Government,” Encyclopedia of American Political History (Congressional Quarterly, 2001), 364-68.
"Government," Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001), I: 553-56.
"State Government," Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001), 3:218-20.
"Grover Cleveland," American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999), 5:60-64.
"Thomas B. Reed," American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999), 18:280-282.
"Thomas A. Hendricks," "Allen G. Thurman," "Leonard
D. White," and "Albert A. Pope," American National Biography
(Oxford University Press, 1999).
"Federalism and American Legislatures," in Joel H. Silbey, ed., Encyclopedia
of the American Legislative System (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994). I: 71-88.
"Thomas A. Hendricks," Polis: Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1994).
Short Articles and Commentary
"Maps and History," Newsletter: Society for Historians of the
Gilded Age and Progressive Era, XIII:2 (Fall, 2003), 2, 10-11.
"Roger D. Bridges: Giving Direction to History," Newsletter:
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
XIII:1 (Spring, 2003), 2, 14-16.
"Enron and the Progressive Era," Newsletter: Society
for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, XII:2
(Fall, 2002), 2, 10-11.
"Walter Nugent: An Historian's Journey," Newsletter: Society
for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, XII:1
(Spring, 2002), 2, 14-16.
"Response: The Goals and Assumptions of _The Growth of American Government_", a reply to a book review panel on The Growth of American Government, H-POL on H-NET (1998).
"Federalism and American Governance (1877-1929)." H-SHGAPE, Sept.
9, 1996. Accessible at the H-NET web site:
http://h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/resources.
"The System of 1896 and Policy Performance in the American States." H-SHGAPE, Jan. 21, 1996. An H-NET website.
"The Path Between Quantification and Narrative," H-NET, 9/1994.
"Migration and Politics," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 20:2 (Autumn, 1989), 263-269.
New York Times (1979) op-ed on history textbooks and public
policy.
Boston Globe (1979) op-ed on state legislator compensation in
Mass.
Christian Science Monitor (1979) op-ed on federalism and taxes.
"Social Science Methodology for Historians," in Stephen Botein, ed., Experiments in History Teaching (Harvard, 1977).
Forthcoming or in Progress
Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History (Facts on File, New York. Around 2007).
"Depressions and Taxes in the United States, 1873-1915," in Christoph Strupp and Alexander Nutzenadel, eds., The State and Taxation (Nomos: Baden, Germany, 2007, sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C).
Building the American State: the Long Nineteenth Century in
Comparative Perspective.
Depressions, the State and Society, 1873-1924.
Affiliations:
Co-Editor, H-SHGAPE (Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era), an H-Net list (1995 - ).
Vice-President (2000-1) and President-elect (2002-3), SHGAPE Editorial board, Social Science History (1996- ).
Affiliated with the Graduate Program in Law, Policy, and Society, 233 Cushing Hall (617) 373-2891 or 373-5211.