Additonal Degrees
- M.A., Columbia
- B.S.F.S., Georgetown
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 512:104 Development of US II
- 512:303 Civil War and Reconstruction
- 512:410 New Jersey History
- 506:401 Seminar: History of New Jersey since 1801
PUBLICATIONS
- The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
- Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879
- Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865
- author of 25 chapters or articles, including 9 recent articles in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey.
- has given 109 guest lectures in the United States, Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia
AWARDS
- 1979: Landry Prize, Lousiana State University Press
- 1980: Chastain Prize, Southern Political Science Association
- 1982-1983: Fulbright Lecturer, University of Salzburg, Austria
- 1996: Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History
- 1996: Special Award, New Jersey Historical Commission
- 1997: McCormick Prize, New Jersey Historical Commission
- 1997-1998: Fulbright Lecturer, Japan Women's University and Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
- 2008: Senior Fulbright Lecturer, the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, Moscow State University , Moscow, Russia
- 2009: appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- New Jersey Historical Society
- Advocates for New Jersey History