Reeve Huston, Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	212 Carr Building
Office Phone:	684 2271
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HISTORY 177S.01, GTWY SEM-MEANING OF FREEDOM Synopsis

  Carr 242, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

• HISTORY 338.01, THE NEW NATION Synopsis

  Languages 211, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Office Hours:

Mondays 3-5 PM

Education:

PhD	Yale University	1995
MA	Yale University	1985
BA	Wesleyan University	1982

Specialties:

Labor and Working Class History
Politics, Public Life and Governance

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the emergence of two-party democracy in the United States--a process that took place between the 1790s and the 1840s. My current book project examines the origins of Jacksonian democracy. I also think and write about social and political conflicts over the distribution of land in North America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Areas of Interest:

American political history
American rural history
American social history
American labor history
American reform movements
Early American republic
Antebellum U.S.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. R. Huston, Origins of Jacksonian Democracy: American Political Practices,, 1812-1840 (2014)
2. R. Huston, Rethinking the Origins of Partisan Democracy in the United States, 1795-1840, in Practicing Democracy, edited by Adam I.P. Smith and Daniel Peart (Submitted, 2013), Under Consideration, University Press of Virginia
3. R. Huston, “That’s No Guppy, That’s Leviathan: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century American State,”, Reviews in American History, vol. 39 (Sept. 2011) (2011)
4. R. Huston, The Early American Republic: A History in Documents (November, 2010), Oxford University Press
5. R. Huston, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy: Reengaging the American Democratic Tradition", Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life (October, 2008)