Faculty and Staff - William Belko
Courses TaughtU. S. Constitutional and Legal History (to 1877), Jacksonian America (1815-1850), Southern Frontier (1660-1860), Era of Good Feelings (1815-1828), U. S.-Seminole Relations (1763-1858), Federalists vs. Antifederalists, Historic and Heritage Preservation. SpecialtiesJacksonian Era, Borderlands, U.S. Constitutional and Legal History Current Research InterestsCurrently writing a biography of the noted Virginia jurist, congressman, and U. S. Supreme Court justice Philip Pendleton Barbour (1783-1841). Future research projects include the First Seminole War, Antebellum Southern Political Economy, States’ Rights Whigs, Southern agrarian thought in the Age of Jackson, federal Indian policy during the Monroe administration, and the presidential election of 1824. EducationPh.D., Mississippi State University, 2001; M.A., Southwest Missouri State University, 1996; B.A., Drury College, 1990. Awards and Honors
Notable Articles/PublicationsUnifying the Anti-Tariff Men: The Philadelphia Free Trade Convention of 1831 (currently under peer review at the University of South Carolina Press) Editor. America’s Hundred Years’ War: U. S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011) The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006) “A Founding Missourian: Duff Green and Missouri’s Formative Years, 1816-1825. Part I.” Missouri Historical Review 98(2)(January 2004): 93-114. “A Founding Missourian: Duff Green and Missouri's Formative Years, 1816-1825. Part II.” Missouri Historical Review 98(3)(April 2004): 177-200. “John C. Calhoun and the Creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: An Essay on Political Rivalry, Ideology, and Policymaking in the Early Republic.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 105(3)(July 2004): 56-83. |
