Department of History -- Sam Houston State University

Faculty for the Online Masters

The faculty members teaching courses for the SHSU Online Master of Arts in History are listed below along with a sample of their publications.

Rosanne M. Barker (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara)
Email: his_rmb@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/barker.html

Publications:
Women and Domestic Life in Early America, 1585-1800 at http://www.xanedu.com, 2001.
"Preparing and Presenting an Academic Paper: 'A Joan of Arc with a Trowel': Pearl Chase and the Plans and Planting Committee of Santa Barbara," in TR5: To Research, To Read, To Reason, To Write, To Report: An Introduction to Research Writing, edited by Diane Dowdey, Barbara Jones, and Katie Pannell. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998.
"Small Town Progressivism: Pearl Chase and Female Activism in Santa Barbara, California, 1911-1918," Southern California Quarterly, 1997 79 (1): 47-100.

Terry D. Bilhartz (Ph.D., George Washington University)
Email: his_tdb@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/bilhartz.html

Publications:
Sacred Words: A Source Book on the Great Religions of the World (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming 2004).
Constructing the American Past: A Source Book on a People's History: Volume One to 1877, 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 2001).
Constructing the American Past: A Source Book on a People's History: Volume Two from 1877, 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 2001).
Images of Texas in the Nation, ed. with Paul Ruffin (Huntsville, TX: Sam Houston Press, 1991).
Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986). Selected by Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1986.
Francis Asbury's America: An Album of Early American Methodism. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984).

Robert Bruce (Ph.D., Kansas State University)
Email: rbruce@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~rbruce

Publications:
A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Pétain: Verdun to Vichy (Forthcoming, Brassey's, Inc. 2004).
A Military History of France (Forthcoming, Praeger, 2005).

Susannah U. Bruce (Ph.D., Kansas State University)
Email: sbruce@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_sub

Publications:
The Harp and the Eagle: Irish Volunteers in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
Ethnicity and the American Civil War. Editor. (University of Nebraska Press, Forthcoming 2007).
Hurrah for Texas: The Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. Under contract with Louisiana State University Press, Civil War Series, Forthcoming 2007.
"'Remember Your Country and Keep Up Its Credit:' Irish-Americans and the Union War Effort, 1861-1865." The Journal of Military History 69 (April 2005): 331-359.
"'How Cola' from Camp Funston: American Indians and the Great War." Kansas History 24 (Summer 2001): 84-97.

Ty Cashion (Ph.D., Texas Christian University)
Email: his_rtc@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_rtc/

Publications:
A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).
Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. (Texas State Historical Association, 1998)
Co-editor, The Human Tradition in Texas. (Scholarly Resources, 2001).

Carolina Castillo-Crimm (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin)
Email: his_ccc@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ccc/

Publications:
De León: A Tejano Family History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004).
Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003).
Cabin Fever: A Campus, A Cabin, A Community (Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2002).

Thomas H. Cox (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo)
Email: thc001@shsu.edu

Publications:
“Frontier Framers: Political Culture and the Making of Nebraska’s First State Constitutions,” in The History of Nebraska Law (Athens : Ohio University Press, 2006), ed. Alan Gless.
“From Centerpiece to Center Stage: Kelly Ingram Park, Segregation, and Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama” in the Southern Historian 18 (Spring 1997): 5-28.

Jeff Crane (Ph.D. Washington State University)
Email: jcrane64@hotmail.com

Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III (Ph.D., University of Iowa)
Email: his_keh@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/hendrickson.htm

Publications:
Making Saints: Religion and the Popularizing of the British Army at Home, 1809-1885 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997).

Jeff L. Littlejohn (Ph.D., University of Arkansas)
Email: littlejohn@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.studythepast.com

Publications:
"Sit Down Children, Sit Down: The Sit-In Movement in Norfolk, Virginia" in Voices from Within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), forthcoming.
"The Brown Decision in Local Context: Race and Public Education in Norfolk, Virginia" in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954-2004 (New York: Word for Word Publishing for the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, 2005).
"Irving Brant," Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, ed. Roger Newman (New Haven: Yale University Press), forthcoming.
Online: The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia | http://www.nsu.edu/brown

James S. Olson (Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Email: his_jso@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/olson.html

Publications:
Where the Domino Fell: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-2000 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991; rev. ed. and paperback, Brandywine Press, 1999).
My Lai: A History and Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1998).
The Vietnam War: A Handbook of Research (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).
A Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988).
John Wayne American (New York: The Free Press, 1995). Winner of the 1996 National Book Award of the American Popular Culture Association.
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (New York: The Free Press, 2001). Winner of the 2001 Parmelee Award for Excellence in Research by the Texas Historical Foundation.
Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Nominated and submitted by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Pulitzer Prize in History; Winner of the 2002 History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers and recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non-fiction books in America for 2002.

Nicholas C. J. Pappas (Ph.D. Stanford University)
Email: his_ncp@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp

Publications:
Greeks in the Russian Army (Athens: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1992).
The Peoples of Central Asia: A Handbook (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002).

Joseph M. Rowe, Jr. (Ph.D., Texas A&M University)
Email: his_jmr@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/rowe.html
Professor Rowe, a former professional historian for the U.S. Air Force, is an expert in air power.

Tracy Steele (Ph.D., University of London)
Email: his_tls@shsu.edu
Web: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_tls/
Professor Steele is an expert in Asian, diplomatic, and Cold War history.

Last update: Summer 2007