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Professor
Office: Herter 709
Telephone: (413) 545-6782
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: hrichardson22@comcast.net
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University (1992).
Field(s) of interest: Civil War, Reconstruction
Graduate Courses Offered:
American Historiography Through the Civil War
Research Interests and Professional Activities
American history, 19th century. Publications include The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War (1997); and The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001). Currently working on a history of Reconstruction that examines American ideology and nationalism from 1865-1901. In addition to nineteenth-century history, interests include popular writing and public education.
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