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• Modern American History
  
  

• Phd  Northwestern University - Evanston, IL.  June 1974 (American History)
  Dissertation: “The Savage and the Child: Images of Blacks in Southern White Thought, 1830-1915.”
• AB  Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ,  June 1965.
  Departmental Honors Program in History, 1962-1965.

• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2006.
• Member, New York State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1996-present.
• Edmund J. Winslow Award for Excellence 1992.
• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981.

• Introduction to Honors Program
• America Since 1929
• Modern America
  

Books

• The State University of New York at Brockport (Arcadia Publishing, 2006). co-authored with Mary Jo Gigliotti and W. Bruce Leslie
• The Home-Front War: American Society and World War II, co-edited with Lynn Hudson Parsons.  (Greenwood Press, 1995).
  
  
Articles


• "The United States, War and the Twentieth Century" in The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture (Cambridge, 2006).
• “America and Images of Censorship in Modern War: America in World War II,” Reviews in  American History (September 1994).

• Chair and commentator on two papers on modern New York history, New York State History Conference, 1999.
• Paper (co-authored with Wanda Wakefield), “World War II in Film,” Popular Culture Association, April 1999.
• Panel member, “The Profession and Its Critics,” American Studies Association, November 1997.
• Invited paper, “Final Thoughts on World War II.”  NEH sponsored conference held at the  Cincinnati Historical Society, April 1995.
• Book reviews for the American Historical Review and New York History.