Reeve Huston
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 212 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 684 2271 |
| Email Address: | reeve.huston@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 3-5 PM
Education
- PhD Yale University, 1995
- MA Yale University, 1985
- BA Wesleyan University, 1982
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 seeks to uncover several groups' ideals and practices of "democracy" during the early nineteenth century--evangelical Protestants, insurgent workers and farmers, northern female and African American activists, Indian advocates of national autonomy. It also examines how these different democratic visions shaped and were shaped by the partisan democracy that became dominant in American public life by the 1840s.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Kerr History Prize, New York State Historical Association, January, 2005
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- R. Huston, Battles for Democracy: How Politicians, Plebeians, Evangelicals, African Americans, and Indians Remade American Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century (2009?).
- R. Huston, Creating a New Nation: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2007?).
- R. Huston, "Creating a New Nation: A History in Documents (under final review, Oxford University Press)." (, 2007).
- R. Huston. ""Multiple Crossings: Thomas Devyr and the American Fate of British Agrarianism"." Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context (2004).
- R. Huston. ""Popular Movements and Party Politics: The Case of the New York Anti-Rent Wars"." Beyond the Founders: Explorations in the Politics of the Early American Republic (2004). This is a revised version of an essay I initially published in the Journal of the Early Republic in 2000