Courses Taught: History of the Old South (undergraduate and graduate), History of the New South (undergraduate and graduate), Civil War and Reconstruction, American History, 1877-1919, American Military History and Strategy and Policy of Warfare.

Specialties: American South, Agricultural History, Late-19th and Early-20th Century America

Current Research Interests: Draft animal use in the South and shift from draft animals to mechanized agriculture in the South.

Brief Vitae
Education: Ph.D., University of Kentucky; M.A., Clemson University; B.A., Clemson University

Awards and Honors: Numerous teaching awards such as the University of West Florida Student Government Association Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 1999-2000.

Affiliations:

• Southern Historical Association
• The Historical Society
• Agricultural History Society
• Society for Military History
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Phi Kappa Phi

Notable Articles/Publications:
“Tractors” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (forthcoming, 2005).

“Horses and Mules” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (forthcoming, 2005).

“Debating Farm Power: Draft Animals, Tractors, and the United States Department of Agriculture,” In Agricultural History, 74 (Summer 2000): 545-568.

“African Americans, Mules, and the Southern Mindscape, 1850-1950,” In Agricultural History, 72 (Spring 1998): 381-398.

“ ‘May the Club Work Go On Forever’: Home Demonstration and Rural Progressivism in 1920s Ballard County,” In The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 96 (Spring 1998): 137-166.

“An Uncivil War of Words: Indian Removal in the Press, 1830.” In Atlanta History 23 (Spring 1989): 49-59.