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Andrew L. Slap
112 Rogers-Stout Hall East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN 37614 (423) 439-4284
EDUCATION Ph.D. History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2002 Dissertation: "Transforming Politics: The Liberal Republican Movement and the End of Civil War Era Political Culture." Advisor: Mark E. Neely, Jr.
B.A. History major, Latin minor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, magna cum laude, 1994
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University, 2009-Present Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University, 2003-2008 Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1997-2003 Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, 2002, Fall Lecturer, Lycoming College, 2000, Fall Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1995-1997
CURRENT PROJECT I am working on a book length examination of the United States Army in the South during Reconstruction and a book length social history of the United States Third Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, which spent three years garrisoning Memphis, Tennessee during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
PUBLICATIONS Authored Books: The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republican Movement in the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
Edited Books: The Civil War's Aftermath in Appalachia. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky (Received advance contract in September, 2007; Manuscript due September 2008).
Articles "'The Strong Arm of the Military Power of the United States': The Chicago Fire, the Constitution, and Reconstruction," Civil War History, 47 (June 2001): 146-63.
"The Spirit of '76: The Reconstruction of History in the Redemption of South Carolina," The Historian, 63 (Summer 2001): 769-86.
Book Reviews Thomas S. March. "Gentleman George" Hunt Pendleton: Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Kent: Kent University Press, 2007. Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming, 2009).
Richard M. Reid. Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Civil War History (Forthcoming, 2009).
Heather Cox Richardson. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Civil War History (Forthcoming, 2008)
James K. Hogue, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Reconstruction, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Civil War History (March , 2008)
Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff. A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in American's Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Reviews in American History (December, 2007) (This is a 3000 word review essay)
Ben H. Severance, Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Summer, 2007).
Michael O'Brien, Henry Adams & the Southern Question in Civil War History (September 2006)
CONFERENCES Papers: "A More Common War: African American Soldiers and the Garrisoning of Memphis," Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, June 2008
"No Band of Brothers: Class and Racial Divisions in the Mustering out of the Union Army," Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, MN, March 2007
"'The old party organizations are broken up.' The Fragility of the Party System in the Early Gilded Age," at the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 2003
"Defending a Republic: Liberal Reformers and Republican Ideology," at the American Religious History Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 1999
"The Spirit of '76: South Carolina's 1876 Election Violence in the Context of the Lost Cause," at the American Culture Association, Orlando, FL, April 1998
Other Conference Participation: Commentator, "Memory, Identity, and Conversion among Women in Post-Civil War Appalachia," Seventh Southern Association of Southern Women, Columbia, SC, June 2009
Chair, "Gearing up for the Civil War Sesquicentennial in the High School Classroom," at the Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, June 2008
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS Small Research and Development Grant, East Tennessee State University (2007-8) Major Research and Development Grant, East Tennessee State University (2005-6) West Point Summer Seminar in Military History Fellowship (Summer 2002) James Landing Fellowship in History, The Pennsylvania State University (Fall 1999) Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Support Grant, The Pennsylvania State University (Summer 1999) Hill Dissertation Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University (Fall 1998) Stitzer Travel Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University (Spring 1995) Graduate School Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University (1994)
COURSES TAUGHT Survey Courses: - American History to 1877 - American History since 1865 - American Civil War and Reconstruction - Western Heritage I
Upper-level Courses: - American Civil War Era undergraduate seminars - American Civil War Films and the Myth of the Lost Cause - Historical Methods - War in the Modern World - World War Two and Film
Graduate Seminars: - African Americans in the Civil War Era - American Civil War Era - Reconstruction - Comparative Slavery - Post-Civil War Appalachia
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED Committee Chair: Meredith Grant. Railroads, Economic Relationships, and Secession in Southern Appalachia. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2008. (Currently a Ph.D. student at Auburn University)
Kyle Osborn. Parson Brownlow and the Ideology of Race in East Tennessee during the Civil War Era. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2007. (Currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia)
Rachel Duby. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889-2002. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2007.
Thomas Jernigan. Death at Elmira: William Hoffman and the Union Prison System. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2005.
Committee Member: Sallie Trudden. Presidents and Supreme Court Decisions in the Twentieth Century. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, Current.
Russell Peters, Current, Course Work Option
Andrew Burks. Roman Slave Professions and the End of Roman Slavery. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2008.
Andrew Adler. Gouverneur Morris: A History. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2007.
Carrie Poteat, 2006, Course Work Option
Joanne Barclay. Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement. MA Thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2005
SERVICE Departmental and University Service: Member, Executive Committee, History Department, (2008-Present) Member, Graduate Committee, History Department, (2008-Present) Member, Strategic Planning Committee, History Department, (2008-Present) Co-author and Academic Director, Tennessee's First Frontier Teaching American History Grant, worth approximately $993,331 from the Federal Government over three years (2005-08) Creator and Director, East Tennessee State University's Civil War Era Speaker Series (2003-Present) Member, Early Modern Search Committee, History Department (2007-8) Member, Academic Misconduct Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2006-7) Member, U.S. History Survey Textbook Committee, History Department (2006) Member, General Education Review Committee, History Department (2006) Member, Search Committee for Curator of Carroll Reece Museum, College of Arts and Sciences (2005-6) Member, Provost's Ad Hoc Committee on the use of Turnitin.com (2005) Principal author, Tennessee Higher Education Committee Grant for high school teacher workshop (2003)
Professional Service: Program Chair, Ohio Valley History Conference (2006) Manuscript Reviewer, McGraw Hill, one project (2007) Manuscript Reviewer, Longman Publishers, five projects (2005-6) Manuscript Reviewer, Civil War History, two articles (2005-6)
Community Service Public history talk to the Kingsport Institute of Continued Learning, October 9, 2007, entitled "The Civil War in Film"
Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities Planning Grant for Tipton-Haynes Historical Site (2006)
Speaker at East Tennessee State University Women's Book Club, November 28, 2005, "Tony Horowitz's Confederates in the Attic"
Taught six-week course on Reconstruction at the Kingsport Institute of Continued Learning (2004)
Public history talk to the Washington County Historical Society, April 17, 2004, entitled "Southern Domination of the North Before the Civil War"
Public history talk to Johnson City Metro Kiwanis, January 22, 2004, entitled "Southern Domination of the North Before the Civil War"
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Department of History, Rogers-Stout Hall, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614
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