Curriculum Vitae
Papers and Publications
Colloquia
Participated by invitation in “Leadership, Liberty and the Images of the Battle of Salamis,” A Liberty Fund Colloquium, Annapolis, Maryland, January 16-19, 2014. I was one of 16 participants in six sessions of discussion of directed readings on the subject of the Battle of Salamis and its relationship to military leadership and the meaning of liberty to the ancient Greeks and Persians.
Papers
“Revolution in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts.” Then and Now Lecture, October 16, 2013, Pottle Music Building Auditorium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana.
“The Forty-Five and American Colonial Political Thought.” Then and Now Lecture, Oct. 12, 2011, Pottle Music Building Auditorium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana.
“The Madness of Caligula vs. the Delusion of the Post-Augustan Roman State,” Ship of Fools, Throne in Bedlam: The Role of Madness in History, Department of History and Political Science Panel at Madness in Art, Literature, and Society Symposium, Pottle Music Building Auditorium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, October 27, 2009.
“Eighteenth Century Whig Thought and the Constitutional Ratification Conflict,” Constitution Day Speech, Pottle Music Building Auditorium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, September 17, 2009.
“Will the Real Andrew Jackson Please Stand Up.” Presented at (Re)Discovering American History, 1803-1898 (History 698/01, a course for secondary-school teachers), Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, July 14, 2006.
“Education Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Antebellum Politics and Pedagogy at the the New ‘Old War Skule,’ 1856-1860.” Presented at (Re)Discovering Louisiana from the Purchase to the Populist Revolt (History 698/02, a course for secondary-school teachers), Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, June 26, 2006.
“How Did Anglo-American Colonial Administration Work?” Presented at the Teaching American History Summer Institute (History 698/01. a course for secondary-school teachers), Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, Summer, 2005.
“Origins of the Ole War Skule: The Creation of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Institute.” Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 20, 2002.
“Court and Country Whig Rhetoric and the Constitutional Ratification Debate.” Presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma, September 22, 2001
“A Popish Plot in God’s Vineyard: Puritans’ Rationalization of the Glorious Revolution in New England.” Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma, September 18-20, 1997
“The Forty-Five and American Colonial Political Thought.” Presented at the Eighteenth Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas, September 12-14, 1996.
Publications and Reviews
Nursing Fathers: American Colonists’ Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776 (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 1999)
History 2055: The United States to 1865, 12 Assignments and 2 Exams. A Correspondence Course Study Guide (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1999)
“Origins of the Ole War Skule: The Creation of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Institute,” Journal of Louisiana History, 52 (Winter 2011).
Review of The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. By Brendan McConville in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 105, No. 1, Winter 2007.
Review of Sensory Worlds in Early America. By Charles Peter Hoffer in The Historian, Vol. 67, Issue #2, June 22, 2005, 322.
Review of Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation. By Richard C. McCoy in The Journal of Church and State, Vol. 45, Issue #1, January 2003, 171.
Review of Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915. By Rod Andrew, Jr. in Civil War Book Review, Winter 2003, 2002, 34.
Review of A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy. By Jonathan D. Sassi in The Journal of Church and State, vol. 44, Issue #2 (Spring, 2002), 262-363.
Professional Organizations (History)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Southern Historical Association, Virginia Historical Society, Louisiana Historical Association.
Other Organizations
American Philatelic Society, National Rifle Association (Certified Instructor).
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