Advantage Democrats: What the 2008 Elections Mean for U.S. Politics

Associate Professor, University of Calgary PhD, University of California at Irvine in 1993 Research Interests: Nineteenth century United States; political history; history of race, labor, and the U.S. South Publications: The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia press, 2004). Articles on politics, race, labor, and violence in the nineteenth century.