Professor Emeritus (History), University of Alaska Anchorage. Teaching areas: America since 1945, 20th Century U.S., Politics, Presidency, Race Relations. Author Nixon's Piano; other books. Awards for "Racial Matters" (New York Times & Myers Center for Human Rights). Various grants, fellowships. Articles in Journal of American History (two), Washington Post, Journal of Southern History, The Nation, The Historian, USA Today, others. Advisor Eyes on the Prize. Speaking engagements Roxbury to Compton. National media (Charlie Rose, Larry King, Today Show, etc.)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Marquette University, 1981
M.A., Central Michigan University, 1975
B.A., University of Detroit, 1973
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Instructor, 2007-2022, Liberal Arts &Sciences (History Dept. and Social Sciences Department), Milwaukee Area Technical College
Assistant, Associate, and Professor, 1983-2004; Emeritus, 2004-, University of Alaska Anchorage
Adjunct, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980
Adjunct and Assistant Professor, Marquette University, 1979-1983
COURSES OFFERED
Graduate Colloquia in U.S. History
America since 1945
America in War and Peace, 1917-1945
Populists and Progressives, 1877-1917
Western Civilization (to/since 1715)
U.S. Civil Rights Movement
20th Century U.S. Foreign Policy
Soviet Union
U.S. Surveys (to/since 1877)
Native American History and Culture
Senior Seminar (Presidency & Civil Right/Civil Liberties)
Wisconsin Indians
Honors Seminar (team taught; Information Age)
American National Government and Politics
E-BOOKS
HOLY COW 2000: THE STRANGE ELECTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH (www.nowandthenreader.com, 2011)
BOOKS
ASPHALT: A HISTORY (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021)
NIXON'S PIANO: PRESIDENTS AND RACIAL POLITICS FROM WASHINGTON TO CLINTON (New York: Free Press, 1995)
BLACK AMERICANS: THE FBI FILES (New York: Carroll and Graff, 1994)
"RACIAL MATTERS:" THE FBI's SECRET FILE ON BLACK AMERICA, 1960-1972 (New York: Free Press, 1989; paper ed., 1991)
HOOVER AND THE UN-AMERICANS: THE FBI, HUAC, AND THE RED MENACE (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983)
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
MILK WARS: THE DAIRY FARMER AND THE AMERICAN DREAM.
PAST & PRESENT ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Organization of American Historians (membership committee/Alaska rep)
American Historical Association
U.S. Capitol Historical Society
Association for Documentary Editing
American Civil Liberties Union
Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit Honorary)
Alaska Civil Liberties Union
Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary)
EYES ON THE PRIZE II (Black Panther episode), Blackside/PBS Television (advisor)
Chair, Dept. of History, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1986-1988
Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society (editorial board)
WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY (editorial board)
THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN, American Socrates Documentary Project (advisor)
Anchorage Museum Association (Board of Trustees)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Iowa State Historical Society, 2021
Pen Center USA West, 1996 (Literary Award in Nonfiction/Finalist)
University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor’s Award (Exemplary Group Achievement), 2004
The Writers Foundation, 1993 (America’s Best Finalist)
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 1989
Gerald R. Ford Foundation, 1984
Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, 1991 (Moody Grant)
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983 (summer stipend)
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, 1990
American Philosophical Society, 1983
Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 1990
NEW YORK TIMES List (Notable Books of the Year)
Herbert Hoover Library Association, 1990
Project '87, 1983 (Seminar Grant)
Fund for Investigative Journalism, 1983 (co-recipient)
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1990 (Outstanding Book Award)
Johnson Library Foundation, 1981
Roosevelt Library Institute, 1980
Hoover Library Association, 1980
University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor’s Award (Excellence in Teaching), 1986
Ford Presidential Library, 1989
Truman Library Institute, 1980
University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor’s Award (Excellence in Research), 1989
National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1979 (Institute for the Editing of Historical
Documents)
PRESENTATIONS/COMMENT
“The FBI and Black America: A 50-Year Retrospective.” MLK 50. St. Patrick’s Church, Memphis, 2018
“Federal Surveillance Policy from the Cold War to the War on Terror,” Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, 2014
“The Bush Administration and Enhanced Interrogation,” Freedom Project/Spring Symposium, Marquette University, 2013
“Barack Obama’s Unlikely Path to the White House,” Polaris Lecture, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage, 2009.
“Civil Rights in America,” U.S. Department of Education/Anchorage School District (Teaching American History Grant), Anchorage, 2009
“Race and the Constitution,” U.S. Department of Education/Anchorage School District (Teaching American History Grant), Anchorage, 2004
“Threats to Democracy before and after September 11,” Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Anchorage, 2002
“The War on Terrorism and Civil Liberties,” Bartlett Democratic Club, Anchorage, 2001
"McCarthyites, Special Counsels, and American Democracy in the 20th Century," Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Anchorage, 1999
"The Neshoba County Fair—and Other Stories of Race and the Race for the White House," Polaris Lecture, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1996
"Richard M. Nixon's Southern Strategy: Twenty Years After," Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Anchorage, 1994
"Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Most Unlikely Great White Father," Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Anchorage, 1993
"The Civil Rights Movement and the End of the Cold War," Olympic College, Washington, 1992
"Martin Luther King's Dream: Then and Now," Emmanuel Apostolic Church, Bremerton, Washington, 1999
"Facts and Fictions: FBI Counterintelligence & African-Americans," Compton College, Los Angeles, 1991
"Human Rights: The Cold War and Beyond," Alaska World Affairs Council, 1990
"Racial Matters: The FBI and Black America," Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990
"The FBI and the NAACP," Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., 1990
"The United States Government and African-American Liberation Movements," Roxbury Community College, Boston, 1990
"The FBI and Civil Wrongs," Bowdoin College, Maine, 1990
"The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.," Colby College, Maine, 1990
"J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the Civil Rights Movement," Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1990
"The United States Civil Rights Commission," Alaska Civil Rights Commission, Anchorage, 1989
"The Freedom of Information Act," American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1989
"Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and the FBI," First Amendment Foundation, Chicago, 1989
"Racial Matters: Hoover's FBI and the Civil Rights Movement," Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, 1987
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Civil Rights," College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1986
"Blacklisting and Historical Memory," Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, 1985
"Latin America in Our Century," Alaskans Concerned About Latin America, Anchorage, 1985
"Un-American Activities: The FBI, Congress, and the Search for Subversives," Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, 1984
"Repression in 20th Century America: New Sources, New Interpretations," Organization of American Historians, Louisville, 1991
"Federal Surveillance of Black Protest, 1917-1970," American Historical Association, Chicago, 1986
"Criminals First and Addicts Afterwards: U.S. Narcotics Policy, 1930-1962," Organization of American Historians, Cincinnati, 1983
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, CHAPTERS
“The Dies Committee and the New Deal,” in BETWEEN THE RED SCARES: ANTI-COMMUNISM AND POLITICAL REPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1921-1946, ed. Robert J. Goldstein (London: Ashgate, 2014), 237-60
“Federal Bureau of Investigation,” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNITED STATES POLITICAL HISTORY, vol. 5, 1922-1945 (CQ Press, 2010)
“Amerasia Case,”
“HUAC,”
“Alger Hiss Case,”
“Palmer Raids,”
“COINTELPRO,”
“FBI,”
“ITT Affair,”
“Investigating Committees,” and
“John Birch Society,” all in DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 10 vols., ed. Stanley I. Kutler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002).
"Race and the American Presidency," in ENCARTA AFRICANA/THE PERSEUM AFRICANA
ENCYCLOPEDIA, ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Microsoft; cd-rom/1999); also in Appiah & Gates, eds., AFRICANA: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999), 1571-77
"ABSCAM,”
"Justice Department,"
"FBI," and
"Freedom of Information Act," all in DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY/Supplement
"FBI," in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY, ed. Jack Salzman, et al. (New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996), vol. 2: 942-45
"J. Edgar Hoover and Civil Rights," POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL 21(Autumn 1993): 609-14
"Bureaucracy and Civil Liberties: The FBI Story," in BUREAUCRACY AGAINST DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM, ed. Ronald Glassman, William Swatos, Jr., and Paul Rosen (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987), 109-19
"Liberal Values, the Cold War, and American Intellectuals: The Trauma of the Hiss Case," and
"The FBI, Congress, and McCarthyism," both in BEYOND THE HISS CASE: THE FBI, CONGRESS, AND THE COLD WAR, ed. Athan Theoharis (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982), 309-40 and 372-406
"Martin Dies,"
"Karl E. Mundt," and
"Clyde Tolson," all in AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, ed. Jack A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 6: 588-89; 16: 92-93; 21: 730-31
"Eldridge Cleaver," in LEADERS FROM THE 1960s: A BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK OF AMERICAN ACTIVISM, ed. David DeLeon (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1994), 66-72
"HUAC Begins Investigating Suspected Communists," in GREAT EVENTS FROM HISTORY II: HUMAN RIGHTS (Pasadena, Cal.: Salem Press, 1992), 550-54
"O. Edmund Clubb,"
"John Paton Davies,"
"Philip C. Jessup,"
"William F. Knowland," and
"Robert A. Lovett," all in A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE KOREAN WAR, ed. James I. Matray (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991), 114-15, 134-35, 200-01, 229-30, 256-57
"Hollywood Ten,"
"William Remington,"
"House Committee on Un-American Activities,"
"The McCarthy Committee,"
"Cecil Price and Sam Bowers," and
"The Orangeburg Massacre," all in DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL TRIALS, ed. Ron Christianson (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1991), 204-08, 267-69, 343-46, 376-79, 388-89
"The Alger Hiss Case," in THE HARRY S. TRUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, ed. Richard S. Kirkendall (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990), pp. 154-56
"Big Sticks and Covert Acts: American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century," CENTRAL AMERICA UPDATE, June 1989, pp. 1-4
"Civil Rights and the FBI," HUMAN RIGHTS, Spring 1989, pp. 32-35, 51-53
"A Case of Misguided Good Intentions: American Indian Policy," USA TODAY, Jan. 1989, pp. 91-93
"The FBI and the Politics of the Riots, 1964-68," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 75(June 1988): 91-114
"The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Years—From the Freedom Rides to Albany," JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 54(May 1988): 201-32
"Adlai E. Stevenson, McCarthyism, and the FBI," ILLINOIS HISTORICAL JOURNAL 81(Spring 1988): 45-60
"The Roosevelt Administration and Black America: Federal Surveillance Police and Civil Rights during the New Deal and World War II Eras," PHYLON 48(March 1987): 11-25
"Federal Bureau of Investigation" and
"Hoover, J. Edgar," in THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ENCYCLOPEDIA, ed. Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), pp. 129-31 and 182-83
"The FBI and American Visitors to Nicaragua," CENTRAL AMERICA UPDATE, Oct. 1985, p. 3
"The FBI and the Origins of McCarthyism," THE HISTORIAN 45(May 1983): 372-93
"Herbert Hoover and the FBI," ANNALS OF IOWA 47(Summer 1983): 46-63
"The Roosevelt Administration and Legislative-Executive Conflict: The FBI vs. the Dies Committee," CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY 10(Spring 1983): 79-89
"A New Deal for the FBI: The Roosevelt Administration, Crime Control, and National Security," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 69(December 1982): 638-58
"Progressive Era and New Era American Indian Policy: The Gospel of Self-Support," JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES 5(Fall 1981): 35-56
"Friendly Journalists' Access to FBI Files," USA TODAY, September 1980, pp. 29-31
"Artful Dissemination: The F.B.I.--HUAC's Big Brother," THE NATION, Jan. 19, 1980, pp. 42-45
"Watergate Fallout: The Quiet Death of the Un-Americans," USA TODAY, January 1980, pp. 58-59
"The Stamler Challenge: Congressional Investigative Power and the First Amendment," CONGRESSIONAL STUDIES 7(Spring 1979): 57-72
"The Times of London and the Bolshevik Revolution," JOURNALISM QUARTERLY 56(Spring 1979): 69- 76
"M. Quad and Brother Gardner: Negro Dialect and Humor in Nineteenth Century Detroit," DETROIT IN PERSPECTIVE 3(Winter 1979): 114-30
"Project Equality and Liberal Catholic Reform: Affirmative Action and the NationalCatholic Conference for Interracial Justice," SOCIAL THOUGHT 4(Summer 1978): 65-76
“J. Edgar Hoover” and
“National Negro Congress,” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
"Presidency,"
"Presidential Politics and Civil Rights," and
"Federal Bureau of Investigation," all in CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES
MICROFILM
THE FBI DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION POLICY FILE (ed.; Frederick, My.: University Publications of America, 1989)
FBI FILES ON THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE (ed.; Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1986)
FBI FILING & RECORDS (assistant ed.; Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1983)
FBI MANUALS OF INSTRUCTION, INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES, AND GUIDELINES, 1927-1978 (assistant ed.; Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1983)
THE FBI RESPONSIBILITIES PROGRAM FILE (ed.; Frederick, My.: University Publications of America, 1989)
BOOK REVIEWS
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
95(February 1990): 299-300, Wooley, Alternatives to Anarchy
89(June 1984): 873-74; Radosh and Milton, The Rosenberg File
99(Oct. 1994): 1414, Carmichael, Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War
100(Oct.1995): 1321-22, May, Un-American Activities: The Trials of William Remington
104 (Dec. 1999): 1712-13, Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
111 (June 2006): 870-71, May, The Informant
113 (June 2008): 865-66, Jeffreys-Jones, The FBI
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW
76(Autumn 2002): Bean, Big Government and Affirmative Action
GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
75(Winter 1991): 829-30, Nieman, Promises to Keep: African Americans and the
Constitutional Order
79 (Fall 1995): 751-52, Fairclough, Martin Luther King, Jr.
81(Fall 1997): 817-19, Fleming, The Potomac Chronicles: Public Policy and Civil Rights from
Kennedy to Reagan
THE HISTORIAN
48(May 1986): 472-73, Steinberg, The Great Red Menace
47(May 1985): 453-54, Powers, G-Men
H-NET
June 2000, Kornweibel, "Seeing Red": Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919- 1925"
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26427959366528
Dec. 2004, Cunningham, There’s Something Happening Here
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
59(Spring 2004): 473-75, Perras, Stepping Stones To Nowhere
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
93(March 2007): 1319-20, Bryant, The Bystander
91 (March 2005): 1518-19, McMahon, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race
88 (September 2002): 674-75, Schmidt, Red Scare
79 (September 1992): 632-33, Jensen, Army Surveillance in America and Talbert, Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left
78(December 1991): 1145-46, Melanson, Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence and Smist, Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
87(March 2001): 1579-80, Weiner, Gimme Some Truth: TheJohn Lennon FBI Files
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY,
33(Spring 2003): 669-70, Ward, Ferrytale
37(Summer 2006), Zelizer, On Capitol Hill
44(Winter 2014), Yellin, Racism in the Nation’s Service
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY
58(August 1992): 574-75, Cotman, Birmingham, JFK, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
54(May 1988): 355-56, Powers, Secrecy and Power
67(Feb. 2001): 218, Riley, The Presidency and the Politicsof Racial Inequality: Nation-Building From 1831-1965
68 (Nov. 2002): 1009-10, Mendelberg, The Race Card
69 (Aug. 2003): 742-43, Borstelmann, The Cold War & the Color Line
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY
48(Spring 1995): 395-97, Davidson and Grofman, eds., The Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW
78(Oct. 2001): 516-17, Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt
82(Jan. 2005), Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace
90(July 2003), Sanders, Mighty Peculiar Elections
POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
97(Fall 1982): 521-22, Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
24(1996): 495-99, Hill, ed., The FBI's RACON: Racial Conditions in the United States during World War II
WASHINGTON POST
December 27, 1992, p. 11, Evanzz, The Judas Factor and Friedly, Malcolm X
WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY
15 (Summer/Fall 2002): 217-18, Pauley, The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights
16 (Winter/Spring 2003): 89-90, Van Nuys, Americanizing the West
WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
76(Spring 1993): 214-15, Theoharis, From the SecretFiles of J. Edgar Hoover
REPRINTS, etc.
"Artful Dissemination: The F.B.I.--HUAC's Big Brother," in SURVEILLANCE NATION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON PRIVACY AND ITS THREATS, ed. Richard Kreitner (New York: Nation Books, 2014), 199-212
NIXON'S PIANO: PRESIDENTS AND RACIAL POLITICS FROM WASHINGTON TO CLINTON (New York: Free Press, 1995; Talking Books [recorded]/Library of Congress, 1998)
"The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Years--From the Freedom Rides to Albany," in RACE, LAW, AND AMERICAN HISTORY, 1700-1990, ed. Paul Finkelman, vol. 9: TheEra of Integration and Civil Rights, 1930-1990(New York: Garland, 1998)
“The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Years,” in The Age of American Power, ed. Doug Rossinow and Rebecca Lowen (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004)
"The Jim Crow Policies of Woodrow Wilson,” JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 17(Autumn 1997): 117-21
"The FBI and the Sixties' Riots," in SOCIETY: AN ALASKAN PERSPECTIVE, ed. Sharon Araji (Davenport, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1994)
"The Pursuit of Martin Luther King," in AMERICAN STORIES: CASE STUDIES IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS, ed. James R. Bowers (New York: Brooks/Cole, 1993)
"The Roosevelt Administration and Legislative-Executive Conflict: The FBI vs. The Dies Committee," in THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789-1987, ed. Joel Silby (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1991)
"The FBI and the Politics of the Riots, 1964-1968," in AMERICAN VISTAS, ed. Leonard Dinnerstein and Kenneth T. Jackson(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 352-77
"J. Edgar Hoover's Racism Lingers," ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS, July 2, 1989, pp. G1, 7-8; and
"A Sorry Saga of FBI Racism," SACRAMENTO BEE, July 23, 1989, pp. F1, 6 (and elsewhere/McClatchy Newspapers; from article in American Bar Association's Human Rights)
"A New Deal for the FBI," in DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL (Garland, 1989)
IN PRESS – articles, essays, chapters
articles
“The Iowa Farmer and the FBI: From the Holiday Association to the White House Enemies List,” ANNALS OF IOWA
reviews
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: HISTORY, POWERS AND CONTROVERSIES OF THE FBI, ed. Douglas M. Charles and Aaron Stockham (ABC-CLIO), Black Panthers
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: HISTORY, POWERS AND CONTROVERSIES OF THE FBI, ed. Douglas M. Charles and Aaron Stockham (ABC-CLIO), COINTELPRO-White Hate Groups
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: HISTORY, POWERS AND CONTROVERSIES OF THE FBI, ed. Douglas M. Charles and Aaron Stockham (ABC-CLIO), NAACP
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: HISTORY, POWERS AND CONTROVERSIES OF TGE FBI, ed. Douglas M. Charles and Aaron Stockham (ABC-CLIO), RACON
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Ellis, Freedom’s Pragmatist
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW, Taylor, Life and Lies of Paul Crouch
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW, de Jong, You Can't Eat Freedom
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Maxwell, F.B. Eyes
OTHER WORK IN PROGRESS
WHITE HOUSE, BLACK PEOPLE (documentary film)
PANTHER MAN and RAINN OUT (screenplays)