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Dr.
Clyde
A. Milner II
Director,
Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program
and
Professor
of History
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Current Position:
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Director,
Heritage Studies PhD Program, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR |
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of History, Arkansas State University |
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Education:
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Ph.D.,
American Studies, Yale University, 1979
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M.
Phil., American Studies, Yale University, 1974
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M.A.,
History, Yale University, 1973
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A.B.,
Religion, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971
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Academic
Employment:
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Utah
State University
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Instructor, 1976-1979; Assistant
Professor, 1979-1982;
Associate Professor, 1982-1988; Professor, 1988-Present
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Yale
University
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Instructor, 1974-1975
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Gulliford
College
Greensboro, North Carolina
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Admissions Counselor
and Assistant to
Director of Freshman Honors Program, 1968-1970
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Administrative
Experience:
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Executive
Editor
Western Historical Quarterly, 1997 -: Editor,
1989-1997; Coeditor, 1987-1989; Associate Editor, 1984-1987. (The WHQ
is the official scholarly journal of the Western History Association. It
has an international circulation of 2500.)
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Responsible
for the growth of direct and indirect financial support of the journal to more
than $350,000 annually including more than $26,000 annually for two graduate
editorial assistants. |
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Supported
initiative that resulted in the electronic publication of the journal as a
charter associate member of the History Cooperative which includes the American
Historical Review, Journal of American History, and William and Mary
Quarterly.
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Reorganized
the office and editorial staffing of the journal to include two nationally
recruited graduate editorial fellows, an assistant editor/copy editor, a
full-time executive office manager, and three part-time academic editors who
hold faculty rank.
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Oversaw
redesign of appearance of entire journal in 1993-94 and expanded the content
of the journal to include new features such as “Prize Reflections” – an
annual review essay of books and articles that received awards from the
Western History Association. |
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Established gender equity and stressed ethnic and racial diversity for appointments to the
Board of Editors. |
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Chaired
national search in 1988 that resulted in the hiring of a senior scholar as the
first woman associate editor of the journal, Anne M. Butler. |
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Director
of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, 1997-2000 ( founded in 1985
with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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Administered
restricted and unrestricted endowments that grew by gifts, bequeaths, and
investments from $1.6 million to $2.4 million.
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Fully
reorganized center’s staff and its responsibilities.
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Eliminated
$120,000 deficit carried over from previous administration.
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Author
of proposal funded at $100,000 by the Dee Foundation of Ogden, Utah to seek
out resources for an endowment of $1.5 million to support visiting writers,
artists, and scholars at Utah State University.
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Established
a $3,000 annual fellowship for a member of the faculty in the College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. to support the completion of a creative
or scholarly project.
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Created
$1000 Handcart Award funded by the David and Beatrice Evans Endowment to
recognize a biography of merit by an emerging author presented annually at the
same time as the $10,000 Evans Biography Award for best biography set in
“Mormon Country” (i.e. the American West)
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Found
the financial resources to return the amount of the Evans Biography Award to
$10,000 annually after it had been reduced to $5,000 by the previous
administration.
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Saw
to the expansion of the Garth and Marie Jones Endowment to support a student
from rural Utah and increased the Charles and Betty Peterson Thesis Award
Endowment which supports graduate student research in western American
history.
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Chaired
a national search in 1997 that resulted in the hiring of the first woman as
editor of Western American Literature, Melody Graulich, who also was
appointed a full professor of English.
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Helped
create two editorial fellowships
for nationally recruited graduate students at Western American Literature
that parallel the fellowships at the Western Historical Quarterly.
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Executive
Director, American Studies Program,1997-2000
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Oversaw
complete reorganization of undergraduate curriculum.
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Incorporated
a larger number of faculty from departments within the College of Humanities,
Arts, and Social Sciences in teaching courses as part of new curriculum.
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Established
an internship requirement for all majors and provided matching funds for
on-campus and off-campus intern work.
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Taught
new Senior Capstone Seminar required for all majors where each student
produced an individualized final project that culminated in a public
presentation.
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Utilized
the staff of the Mountain West Center to serve the American Studies Program in
terms of record-keeping and student advisement.
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Oversaw
expansion of exchanges with international programs in American Studies which
resulted in students attending Utah State University from Leicester University
in England, Universität Innsbruck in Austria and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität
in Munich, Germany.
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Hosted
numerous visitors, including international scholars, who gave public
presentations and advised American Studies students about their research. |
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| Vice-chair, Utah
State University, Educational Policies Committee
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Elected by the
committee, 1986-1988.(Faculty Representative to the Educational Policies
Committee of Utah State University: elected from College of Humanities, Arts
and Social Sciences, 1984-1988 and Chair, College Curriculum Committee,
1984-1987.)
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Chaired
university-wide committee in 1986-87 set up by the Educational Policies
Committee to hear appeals of all budget cuts and reallocations that affected
educational programs brought on by the governor’s 13% reduction of
university’s state funding.
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Worked
closely with university provost and all deans to ameliorate the impact of
these budget reductions.
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Considered
needs of student services and other student-related programs, such as the
admissions office, in midst of
these drastic reallocations.
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No
faculty member or academic program was terminated after appeals were
recognized. Through reallocation, helped initiate some new programs such as
classical languages.
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Received
Faculty Service Award for 1987, presented by the Associated Students of Utah
State University, for leadership of this committee and attention to student
needs in face of the severe budget reductions.
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Promotion
and tenure responsibilities:
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Chair
of committee for three candidates in the history department and one in the
department of English for promotion from assistant to associate professor with
tenure. Each a six-year term as chair.
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Chair
of committee for two candidates in the department of history for promotion to
full professor. Each a one-year term as chair.
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Also
chaired the department’s post-tenure review committee in 1999-2000.
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Have
written numerous confidential assessments of candidates for promotion at other
universities, typically to either full professor or for appointment to an
endowed chair of history. Institutions requesting these assessments include
Yale, Cornell, Amherst, Colorado College, Cal Tech, UC-San Diego, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Colorado State University, Montana State
University, Santa Clara University, University of Texas at El Paso, University
of Arizona, University of Oklahoma, University of Oregon and University of
Colorado, University of New Mexico, and New York University.
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Other
Experience:
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Reader
and Reviewer, Western, American Indian, and Environmental History, The
History Book Club, Inc. (a division of Book-of-the-month club with
250,000 members) 1986-present |
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Executive
Council, The Western Literature Association, 1997-2000 |
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Ex
Officio Member, National Council, The Western History Association, 1989-97. |
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Editorial
Board, H-West,
(an on-line, moderated international electronic discussion
group for scholars, researchers, and teachers interested in the history of the
North American West.) Part of H-NET, 1994-Present. |
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Co-Representative
(with Carol A. O'Connor)Utah)
Membership Committee of the
Organization of American Historians, 2000-04. |
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Chair,
Jury for the
Julian J. Rothbaum Prize for 1999 (an award of $2,500
given to the most distinguished book published by the University of Oklahoma
Press that calendar year.)
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Panelist,
Review of Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations,
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., January 14, 2000 |
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Judge,
(one of twenty-two) to determine “The 10 Utahns Who Most Influenced Our
State in the 20th Century.” Results published on front page of Salt
Lake Tribune, January 1, 2000. |
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Commission
on Colleges, College
Evaluators Training Conference, Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges,
Seattle, WA, February 5, 1999.
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Committee
Member, Ray
Allen Billington Prize Selection of the Organization of American Historians, 1997-1999. |
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Panelist,
Review of Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations,
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., April 15, 1996.
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Judge,
Western Heritage Wrangler Award in nonfiction, National Cowboy Hall of Fame,
1996.
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Consultant,
Smoky
Hill Museum, Salina, KS, October 6-8, 1995,for self-study funded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan new permanent exhibits
for local, Kansas, and western history.
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Faculty
Advisory Committee, Natural Resources and Environmental Policy Graduate
Program, 1993-1997. |
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Elected
Member, Association of Utah
Historians, Board, 1989-1991.
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Panelist,
Review of National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships, Washington,
D. C., August 14, 1989.
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Faculty
Advisor, Delta Xi Chapter of
Phi Alpha Theta, Utah State ,
1982-83
and
1994-1995.
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Representative-Faculty
Senate, University Council for Library-Learning Resources
Center, 1981-1982.
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Co-Director,
Western Writers' Conference at
Utah State University,1980-81. |
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Board
of Advisors,
Mountain West Writing
Conference,
1985-1988. |
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Representative,
Utah State University Faculty to Higher
Education and Faculty Board of Utah
Public Employees' Association,
1980-81.
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Acting
President, Society of Professors
of the Utah Public Employees Association at
Utah State University, 1980-81.
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Faculty
Senate, Utah State University: elected from College of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 1979-1982. |
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Other
Projects:
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My
History is America’s History. Core
consultant to Wisteria Films which is developing an interactive web site,
radio programs, and film documentaries with the proposed support of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the Ford Foundation.
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Westward
Movement: A Multimedia Supplement CD-ROM.
Materials developed for Instructional Technology Department of Utah State in
coordination with Addison-Wesley Publishers under a grant to the College of
Education from the U.S. West Corporation. Executive Director of project funded at $30,000 with a project manager
and three graduate student researchers, 1995-1996.
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Co-director
with F. Ross Peterson, organizer of participants and author of narrative
portion of research conference grant proposal to the National Endowment for
the Humanities for a scholarly conference, "A New Significance:
Re-envisioning the History of the American West" held at Utah State
University, July 29-August 1, 1992. Funded
at $40,000 by the NEH. Major
papers appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly in 1993 and 1994.
Full collection of essays and comments appeared as a book published by
Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Contributor
of 223 annotated bibliographic entries on the American West and environmental
history for nineteenth--and twentieth-century sections of U. S. history in the
Guide to Historical Literature, third edition, a project of the
American Historical Association, under the general editorship of Mary Beth
Norton, published by Oxford University Press (March, 1995). A team of six graduate students helped select and produce
these entries.
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Courses
Taught at Utah State University:
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American
Indian History |
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American West and
Frontier |
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Sources and Literature of
History |
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American Folklore |
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Folklore of American
South |
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American Social and Cultural
History |
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American Survey |
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Civil War and
Reconstruction |
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Industrial America |
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Jefferson and
Jackson |
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Capstone Seminar for American Studies
Majors |
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Graduate
seminars in American Indian History, History of American West, Comparative
History, Life Writing (Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs and Diaries).
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Courses Taught at Arkansas
State University:
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HS7061 Heritage Studies Seminar (Fall,
2002) |
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HS7203 Special Topics in Heritage Studies
(Spring, 2003) |
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Books:
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Coeditor
with Anne M. Butler and David Rich Lewis, Major Problems in the History of
the American West, second edition, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). |
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Editor,
A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Author of “Introduction:
Envisioning a Second Century of Western History.” ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE
HISTORY BOOK CLUB, JAN. 1997. Published digitally on demand by Oxford
University Press beginning September, 2001. |
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Co-editor
with Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss, The Oxford History of the
American West. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). Author of
chapter 5, "National Initiatives"; general introduction,
"America Only More So"; and two section introductions. MAIN
SELECTION OF THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB, MAY 1994. |
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Co-editor
with Patricia Nelson Limerick and Charles E. Rankin, Trails: Toward a New
Western History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991).
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Editor
Major Problems in the History of the American West (Lexington, MA: D.C.
Heath, 1989)
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Coeditor
with Floyd A. O'Neil, Churchmen and the Western Indians, 1820-1920.
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985).
Author of Chapter Five, "Albert K. Smiley: Friend to Friends of
the Indians." and co-author of editors' introduction. |
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Author, With Good Intentions:
Quaker Among the Pawnees, Otos and Omahas in the 1870s (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1982). |
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Under
contract:
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Co-author
with Carol A. O’Connor, A Most Western Life: The Pioneer Saga of
Granville Stuart for
Oxford University Press. Peter Ginna, editor for trade books.
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Articles
and Chapters:
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"The
View from Wisdom: Region and Identity in the Minds of Four Westerners," Montana
The Magazine of Western History 41 (Summer 1991), 3-17. |
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An abridged version of "The View from Wisdom: Four Layers of
History and Regional Identity" in Under an Open Sky: Rethinking
America's Western Past, pp. 203-222, edited by William Cronon, George
Miles, and Jay Gitlin (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992). |
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"The
Shared Memory of Montana's Pioneers," Montana The Magazine of Western
History, 37 (Winter 1987), 2-13.
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"Indulgent
Friends and Important Allies: Political Process on the Cis-Mississippi
Frontier and Its Aftermath," Howard R. Lamar and Leonard M. Thompson,
eds., The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), pp.
123-148.
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"Off
the White Road: Seven Nebraska Indian Societies in the 1870s--A Statistical
Analysis of Assimilation, Population and Prosperity," Western
Historical Quarterly, 12 (January 1981), 37-52.
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Review
Essays:
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“Sometimes
the Magic Works” in Montana The Magazine of Western History, 47
(Spring 1997), 68-72.
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"Transition
and Culmination" in Montana The Magazine of Western History 39
(Winter 1989), 71-72.
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"A
Reconquered Frontier" in Reviews in American History 17 (March
1989), 90-94. |
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"Demythologizing
the Savage, Depurifying the Puritans," review essay, Meeting Ground
(publication of the Center for the History of the American Indian), 3 (Summer
1976), 8-9. Reprinted in National
Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies' Newsletter, 3 (September,
1976).
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Other
Writings:
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“The
Westward Movement,” “Life on the Western Frontier,” Overland Trail to
California, Oregon, and Utah,” and four other entries in Microsoft
Encarta Encyclopedia (1998, CD-ROM format).
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"Demythologizing
the Savage, Depurifying the Puritans," review essay, Meeting Ground
(publication of the Center for the History of the American Indian), 3 (Summer
1976), 8-9. Reprinted in National
Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies' Newsletter, 3 (September,
1976).
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“Shifting
Boundaries of the West Embrace a Diverse Culture,” Los Angeles Times,
section M, page 3, May 29, 1994.
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"Guilford's
Most Famous Pol?" Guilford College Bulletin, 76 (February 1987) 1
and 14. Excerpt from address,
"Joseph M. Dixon: Carolina Quaker and Montana Political Leader,"
presented at annual luncheon of North Carolina Friends Historical Society,
November 8, 1986.
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"One
Trail to Montana Leads Through Los Angeles," The Clark Newsletter
of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, No. 6 (Spring
1984), 6.
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"Gros
Ventre of the Prairies," as well as general contributions to Howard R.
Lamar, ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977). Yale University Press has published a second,
expanded edition with the title, The New Encyclopedia of the American West
(1998). I t contains an updated entry on the Gros Ventres and a new entry on
"Western Scholarly Journals."
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Dissertation:
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"With
Good Intentions: Quaker Work and Indian Survival; the Nebraska Case,
1869-1882." Howard R. Lamar, dissertation supervisor at Yale University,
1979.
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Honors
and Recognitions:
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Department
of History nominee for University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, 2002.
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Charles
Redd Prize of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters for significant
contributions to the Humanities and Social Sciences in the preceding five
years, presented jointly to Clyde Milner and Carol O’Connor, April 12, 1996.
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The
Caughey Western History Association Award for the outstanding book on the
history of the American West for coediting The Oxford History of the
American West. Presented in Denver, CO, October 13, 1995.
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Western
Heritage Award for the best nonfiction book of 1994 from the National Cowboy
Hall of Fame for coediting The Oxford History of the American West.
Presented in Oklahoma City, OK, March 18, 1995. (Other recognitions include,
"one of the outstanding reference books" of 1994 designated by the
New York Public Library and finalist for Best Western Nonfiction -
Contemporary from Western Writers of America, Inc.)
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The
Old Main Society of Utah State University with Carol A. O’Connor, spring,
1995, for contributions of more than $10,000 to the university
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Who's
Who in America, 50th and
subsequent editions.
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Who's
Who in the West, 22nd and subsequent
editions. |
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Vivian
A. Paladin Writing Award for 1987, Montana The Magazine of Western History,
selected by the Board of Editors for the best article of the year in the
magazine. Awarded to "The
Shared Memory of Montana's Pioneers" at Montana History Conference
banquet October 23, 1987.
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Award
as the Outstanding Researcher of the Year in the Social Sciences.
Presented by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at
Utah State University, May 5, 1983.
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Theron
Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University, May 1979 (an open competition for
dissertations of general readable quality in any field of study at Yale).
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Phi
Beta Kappa
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Fellowships
and Grants:
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Co-Principal
Investigator with James P. Evans, Professor of Geology, Principal
Investigator, and Dawn C. Martindale, primary researcher, “Analysis of pre-
and early instrumented earthquakes in the western United States using modern
historiographical methods.” $20,000 U.S. Geological Survey Assistance Award,
budget period 01/02/02 through 01/01/03. |
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Sabbatical
Appointment as Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of the
Pacific Northwest, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle,
1997-98.
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Frederick
W. Beinecke Fellowship in Western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, Yale University. To do research in the spring of 1997. |
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Faculty
Research Fellowship for 1996-1997 awarded by the Charles Redd Center for
Western Studies at Brigham Young University to support work in Utah and
Montana on the lives and families of Granville Stuart.
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James
H. Bradley Memorial Fellowship at the Montana Historical Society, Helena,
Montana (support for eight weeks research and writing, summer 1985). |
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American
Association for State and Local History Grant-in-Aid for Research, 1984-1985.
(Topic: Western Identity and Folk History in Montana.) |
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Short-Term
Resident Fellowship, February 13-March 23, 1984, at the William Andrews Clark
Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. |
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Utah
State University Faculty Research Grant, 1983-1984. (Topic: Northern Range and
Western Identity.)
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Project
Director of National Endowment for the Humanities Research Conference Grant,
1981-1982. (Topic: Churchmen and
the Western Indians.)
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Utah
State University Faculty Research Grant, 1981-1982. (Topic: Albert Smiley:
Friend to Friends of the Indians.)
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Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship at Center for the History of the American Indian, 1975-1976, The
Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Danforth
Fellowship for graduate study.
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John
Motley Morehead Scholar, 1966-68, 1970-71, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
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Professional Organizations:
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Western
History Association
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Western
Literature Association
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Organization
of American Historians
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Pacific
Coast Branch/ American Historical Association
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American
Studies Association
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American
Folklore Society
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American
Society for Environmental History
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Friends
Historical Association
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Friends
Association for Higher Education
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Montana
Historical Society
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Texas
State Historical Association
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Phi
Alpha Theta
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Published
Reviews for the History Book Club:
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Blood
of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Will Bagley (forthcoming)
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Jesse
James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
by T. J. Stiles (forthcoming)
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Finding
the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark by James P. Ronda (Holiday 2001)
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Buffalo
Bill’s Wild West by Joy S. Kasson
(Holiday 2000)
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Exploring
Native North America by David Hurst
Thomas (October 2000)
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Roaring
Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
by Susan Lee Johnson (Spring 2000) |
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A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
by Robert M. Utley (Midsummer 1997) |
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Days
of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
by Malcolm J. Rohrbough (May 1997)
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"Undaunted
Courage": Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the
American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
(January 1996) A MAIN SELECTION. |
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Between
Two Fires: The Tragedy of American Indians in the Civil War
by Laurence M. Hauptman (Holiday 1995) |
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Parading
through History: The Making of the Crow Nation, 1805-1935
by Frederick E. Hoxie (Fall 1995) |
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Battles
and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War
and Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, each
compiled, edited, and annotated by Jerome A. Greene. (August 1995)
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The
Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge -- A Lakota Odyssey
by Joe Starita. (July 1995) |
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Northwest
Passage: The Great Colombia River by
William Dietrich. (June 1995) |
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500
Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians
by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. (Winter 1995) A MAIN SELECTION. |
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The
Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux
by James O. Gump (Spring 1994).
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Elizabeth
Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
by Shirley A. Leckie (Summer 1993).
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The
Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
by Robert M. Utley (June 1993). A
MAIN SELECTION. |
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Sam
Houston by John Hoyt Williams (May
1993). |
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The
Custer Reader edited by Paul Andrew
Hutton (July 1992).
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Under
Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
by Donald Worster (June 1992).
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Let
Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy by
David Lavender (May 1992).
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Eyewitness
at Wounded Knee by Richard E.
Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter (February 1992).
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Native
American Testimony by Peter Nabokov
(February 1992).
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"It’s
Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A History of the American West
by Richard White (January 1992).
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After
Columbus, by Herman J. Viola (April
1991). |
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The
Lawmen, by Frederick S. Calhoun
(November 1990). |
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Growing
Up with the Country, by Elliott West
(March 1990).
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Far
From Home, by Lillian Schlissel,
Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (July 1989).
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Native
American Architecture, by Peter
Nabokov and Robert Easton (April 1989).
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Cavalier
in Buckskin, by Robert M. Utley
(November 1988).
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William
Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape
by Peter B. Hales (October 1988). |
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High
Noon In Lincoln, by Robert M. Utley
(February 1988).
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Book
Reviews:
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Montana
The Magazine of Western History 45
(Winter 1995), 78-80.
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Hispanic
American Historical Review 72
(August 1992), 459-60.
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Nevada
Historical Society Quarterly 31
(Winter 1988), 295-6.
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American
Historical Review 93 (February
1988), 215-6.
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American
Historical Review 92 (April 1987),
489.
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American
Indian Quarterly 10 (Summer 1986),
245-7.
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Quaker
History 75 (Spring 1986), 55-6.
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Pacific
Northwest Quarterly 76 (October
1985), 158.
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Arizona
and the West 27 (Winter 1985),
373-4.
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Montana
The Magazine of Western History 35
(Winter 1985), 68-9.
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Great
Plains Quarterly, 4 (Summer 1984),
200-1.
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Journal
of American History 70 (December
1983), 689-690.
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Journal
of the West, 22 (January 1983), 95.
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Nevada
Historical Society Quarterly, 25
(Winter 1982), 351-3.
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Western
American Literature, 17 (May 1982),
90-1.
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Utah
Historical Quarterly, 50 (Spring
1982), 202-03.
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Western
American Literature, 16 (November
1981), 234.
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Journal
of the West, 20 (July 1981), 93.
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Western
Historical Quarterly, 12 (April
1981), 189.
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Nevada
Historical Society Quarterly, 22
(Winter 1979), 290-1.
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Western
Historical Quarterly, 10 (October
1979), 494-5.
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Nebraska
History, 60 (Spring 1979), 120-2.
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Western
Historical Quarterly, 9 (October
1978), 514-5.
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Invited
Presentations:
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PATHS
(Professional Academy for the Teaching of History in Schools), Department of
Education Grant, American West Heritage Center, Wellsville, UT, June 5 &
12, 2002, morning presentation and workshop, “Native Americans from Contact
to Removal.”
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“Five
Significant Westerners” video conference presentation with Carol A.
O’Connor for The Henry Viscardi School, Albertson, N.Y., Mar. 19, 2001 to an
audience of 100 disabled middle school and high school students.
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“The
Shared Memory of Personal Histories: Examples from the American West,”
keynote address, Remembering Symposium sponsored by the Conference of
Inter-Mountain Archivists, Brigham Young University, Oct. 6, 2000. (Repeated
presentation by invitation of Utah Westerners on Jan. 16, 2001, at the Alta
Club in Salt Lake City.)
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“Contradictions
to the Empire of Liberty: Settlement in the First Far West,” lecture at the
St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri - St. Louis, January 31,
2000.
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“The
American West and the Search for National Identity,” inaugural address for
the Dirk and JoAnn Mellema Program in Western American Studies at Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, MI, April 18, 1997. |
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“Married
to the West,” keynote lecture (with Carol A. O’Connor), Awards Ceremony
for Outstanding Papers, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, January 10, 1997.
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"Why
New Ideas Make People Angry.” presentation for “The Role of Humanities in
Higher Education,” a centennial symposium at Southern Utah University, Cedar
City, September 18-20, 1996. Also, one of five resource people for all
meetings.
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"Legends
and Lies of American History” on-air commentator for segment on the the
American West. Videotaped commentary made on December 19, 1995 in Salt Lake
City, UT for Belo Productions, Inc of Seattle, WA. Series aired on The
Learning Channel fall, 1996.
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"Take
Two" on KUTV, channel 2, Salt Lake City, UT, November 12, 1995,
10:45-11:15 p.m. Remarks on western history and western films as one of three
people interviewed in a discussion of the CBS mini-series, "The Streets
of Loredo."
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"Writers
Harvest: The National Reading" Barnes & Noble Superstore, Orem, UT,
November 2, 1995. Signing and reading from the Oxford History of the
American West in support of Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger
campaign.
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"Learn
from the Moment, Seize the Future" Mount Logan Middle School, Honor Roll
Recognition Night, May 11, 1995. Speech with Carol A. O'Connor.
|
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"Indian
Agents" on-air commentator, The Real West, Greystone
Communications for the Arts and Entertainment Network. Episode first broadcast
in February, 1994. Taped commentary made on April 17, 1993 in Los Angeles, CA.
|
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"Shootout
over the Rainbow" address to Honors Symposium, Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT, May 7, 1992.
|
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"The
Good of Doing Good: Some Reflections on the Life of Albert K.
Smiley."public lecture, Mountain House at Lake Mohonk, New Paltz, NY,
April 29, 1991.
|
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"Joseph
M. Dixon: Carolina Quaker and Montana Political Leader." luncheon address
for North Carolina Friends Historical Society, Greensboro, NC, November 8,
1986. |
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"The
Non-Vanishing American: Federal Paternalism and Indian Self-Determination, a
Historical Overview."public lecture for
Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7, 1979. |
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Conference
Presentations:
|
American
Catholic Historical Association Conference, Portland, OR, Mar. 16, 2002, Chair
for session, “Americanization Along a Western Corridor: Catholic Women
Confront Race and Ethnicity.”
|
|
Western
History Association Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 6, 2001. Chair and
commentator for session, “Federal Records and Opportunities for Research in
the History of the American West.”
|
|
Organization
of American Historians Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 27, 2001. Presiding
at panel, “Historians Who’ve Changed Our Thinking: Richard White.”
|
|
Western
History Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 12, 2000. Presentation:
“Western Historical Quarterly: The Early Years” and panel
participant: “Celebrating Thirty Years at the Western Historical
Quarterly.”
|
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American
Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Park City, UT,
August 4, 2000. Commentator for session, “The Long Arm of the Law: Federal
Legislation and Environmental Protection in the Pacific Northwest.”
|
|
Western
History Association Conference, Portland, OR, October 8, 1999. Originator and
Chair of session: "Interpreting the West: A Roundtable of Vital
Perspectives."
|
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Utah
State University Mini-Conference, Regional Legacies: Places Where Cultures
Mix, May 21, 1994. Presentation: "Constructing Regional Identities:
Thoughts on the American West and South."
|
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Western
History Association Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 15, 1993. Panel
Participant: "John Mack Faragher's Daniel Boone."
|
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Liberty
Fund Conference, Mountain Sky Guest Ranch, Emigrant, MT, Sept. 30-Oct. 3,
1993. Participant: "The Question of Liberty in the Interpretation of the
History of the American West."
|
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Western
History Association Conference, New Haven, CT, October 16, 1992.
Originator and Chair of session: "De-easternizing American
History."
|
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American
Association for State and Local History, Washington, D.C., September 7, 1990.
Panel Participant: "Regionalism and the Writing of History."
|
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Utah
State Historical Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, July 14, 1989.
Chair for session: "Folk Arts."
|
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Association
of Utah Historians Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, July 13, 1989.
Panel Participant: "Publishing Utah's History."
|
|
Centennial
West: Celebrations of the Northern Tier States' Heritage,Billings, MT, June
23, 1989. Moderator for session:
"Comparative Studies of Historical Periods."
|
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Montana
History Conference, Helena, MT, October 23, 1987. Moderator: "Images of Mining Communities: Montana Coal
Towns."
|
|
Western
History Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 9, 1987.
Chair for session: "New Perspectives for Articles in Western
History: An Editors' Panel."
|
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Western
History Association Conference, Billings, MT, October 18, 1986.
Paper: "The Shared Memory of Montana's Pioneers."
|
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American
Association for State and Local History, Oakland, CA, October 1, 1986.
Paper: "The Kindness of Strangers and Seven-Card Stud."
|
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Organization
of American Historians' Conference, New York City, NY, April 11, 1986.
Chair for session: "Missionaries and Indians."
|
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Montana
History Conference, Helena, MT, November 8, 1985. Paper: "Inventing Montana: Pioneer Memoirs as Cultural
History."
|
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Western
History Association, Salt Lake City, UT, October 13, 1983.
Commentator: "Religion on the Frontier."
|
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Western
History Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 22, 1982.
Paper: "Using Folklore in Western History: A Historian's
View."
|
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Research
Conference on Churchmen and the Western Indians sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Utah State University, Logan, UT, August 6,
1982. Paper: "Albert K.
Smiley: Friend to Friends of the Indians."
|
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Conference
of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Guilford College, Greensboro, North
Carolina, June 26, 1982. Paper:
"Albert K. Smiley: A Quakerly Influence in Indian Affairs."
|
|
Rocky
Mountain Regional Conference of the American Culture and Popular Culture
Associations, Denver, Colorado, September 27, l980. Paper: "American Film's Representation of American
Religion, 1915-1970."
|
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Conference
of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Haverford College, Haverford, PA., June
28, 1980. Paper: "Unfriendly
Reservations: Controversies Between Quaker Administrators and Local Nebraskans
at the Pawnee Agency, 1872-1873."
|
|
Organization
of American Historians' Conference, San Francisco, California, April 10, 1980.
Paper: "Off the White Road: Seven Nebraska Tribes and
Assimilationist Policies in the 1870s, a Statistical Analysis."
|
|
Conference
of Minority Studies, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, LaCrosse, Wisconsin,
Spring 1976. Paper:
"Ineffective Friends: American Quaker Involvement with Blacks and
Indians, 1657-1880."
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Master’s
Theses and Plan B Research Papers Directed by Clyde Milner at Utah State
University:
| Schreier, Jesse "Conservation
and Efficiency: The reform
campaign of the Utah Agricultural College, 1888--1920," Master’s
thesis, 2002.
|
| Welker,
Richard Todd, "Sweet Dreams in Sugar Land: Japanese Farmers, Mexican Farm
Workers, and Northern Utah Beet Production," Master’s thesis, 2002.
|
| Meyer,
Marc J., “First Wave / Latest Wave: A Comparative Historical Analysis of
Chinese Immigration,” Master’s thesis, 2001. |
| Martindale,
Dawn C., “The Rolling Hills of November: The Historical and Geological
Significance of the 1884 Bear Lake, Utah Earthquake,” Plan B research paper,
2001. |
| Bulthuis,
Kyle T. “Food for Thought, Food
for Action: An Historical Analysis of Latter-day Saint and Seventh-Day
Adventist Dietary Laws,” Master’s thesis, 2000. |
| Feldman,
James W. “The Politics of
Predator Control, 1964-1985,” Master’s thesis, 1996. |
| Amerman,
Stephen Kent. “Newcomers to the Urban West: Navajos and Samoans in Salt
Lake City, Utah 1945-95,” Master’s thesis, 1996. |
| Martin,
Grant O. “Railroading the
Indians of the Intermountain West: The Shoshone-Bannocks and the Utah and
Northern Company at Fort Hall, 1872-1914,” Plan B research paper, 1995.
|
| Taylor,
A. J. “Uncertain Justice: The
Ute Jurisdiction Case and Conflicting Directions in Federal Indian Law,”
Master’s thesis, 1995.
|
| Christensen,
Scott R. “Sagwitch: Shoshoni
Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1884,” Master’s thesis, 1995.
|
| Hatfield,
Kevin D. “The Tail Wags the
Dog: State Versus Federal Control in the Public Domain Debate, 1929-1934,”
Master’s thesis, 1994.
|
| Walz,
Eric. “Masayoshi Fujimoto:
Japanese Diarist, Idaho Farmer,” Master’s thesis, 1994.
|
| Breaden,
Ian Craig. “Homeward the Course
of Empire: The Popularization of
the American West in Great Britain, 1850-1913,” Master’s thesis, 1992.
|
| Morse,
Kathryn T. “Nature’s Second
Course: Water Culture in the Mormon Communities of Cache Valley, Utah,
1860-1916,” Master’s thesis, 1992.
|
| Mitchell,
Christiane A. “‘Work and Devotion’: Father Harold Baxter Liebler at
St. Christopher’s Mission, 1943-1962,” Master’s thesis, 1991. |
| Hoikkala,
Päivi Helena. “Native Cultures in Transition: A Comparative Study of
Political, Social, and Economic Change Among the Shoshone-Bannocks and the
Skolt Lapps,” Master’s thesis, 1990.
|
| Gruenwald,
Kim M. “The Ute Indians and the
Public School System: A Historical Analysis, 1900-1985,” Master’s thesis,
1989.
|
| Suddreth,
Diana Lynn. “Navajo Men and
Women: History Through Autobiography,” Plan B research paper, 1988.
|
| Olinger,
John Charles. “Camp Downey: A Conscientious Objector Work Camp,”
Master’s thesis, 1987.
|
| Walker,
Jesse Lloyd. “Feathers and
Steel: A Folkloric Study of Cockfighting in Northern Utah,” Master’s
thesis, 1986.
|
| Parson,
Robert Edward. “From Dance Halls to Cabarets: Popular Music in Cache
Valley, Utah, 1930-1962,” Master’s thesis, 1983.
|
| Vatis,
Nicholas A. “A Study in Crisis:
The Weakness of the Frontier Regulars During the Nez Perce Campaign of
1877,” and “White Arms, Red Soldiers:
A Study of the Nez Perce’s Utilization of White Military Tactics and
Strategy,” Plan B research papers, 1978.
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Reviews
of Manuscripts, Articles, Presentations, and Proposals:
|
National
Endowment for the Humanities |
|
John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
|
John
Simon Guggenheim Foundation |
|
American
Council of Learned Societies |
|
Utah
Council for the Humanities |
|
Research
Council of Canada |
|
Western
Heritage Center (Billings, MT) |
|
Journal
of American History |
|
American
Quarterly |
|
Pacific
Historical Review |
|
Pacific
Northwest Quarterly |
|
Journal
of American Folklore |
|
Western
Folklore |
|
Western
American Literature |
|
Encyclia |
|
University
of Oklahoma Press |
|
University
of North Carolina Press |
|
Yale
University Press |
|
University
of Nebraska Press |
|
University
of Arizona Press |
|
Princeton
University Press |
|
Oxford
University Press
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