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David Craig Harlan

Craig HarlanAssociate Professor
U.S. History
E-mail: charlan@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, Room 25Q
Phone: (805)756-2761

 

EDUCATION

  • PhD History, University of California, Irvine (1981)

  • MA History, University of California, Irvine (1973)

  • BA History, University of California, Irvine (1971)

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

  • U.S. History, historiography, film, the historical novel

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

  • The Degradation of American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).

  • The Clergy and the Great Awakening in New England (Ann Arbor: Research Press, 1981).

Articles:

  • "Reading, Writing and the Art of History," Perspectives on History 48:8 (November 2010), 37-38.

  • "'The Burden of History' Forty Years Later," in Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska and Hans Kellner (eds.), Re-Figuring Hayden White (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

  • "Historical Fiction and the Future of Academic History," in Keith Jenkins, Sue Morgan and Alun Munslow (eds.), Manifestos for History (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 108-130.

  • "Ken Burns and the Coming Crisis of Academic History," Rethinking History,
    7:2 (July 2003): 169-192.

  • "A People Blinded From Birth: American History According to Sacvan Bercovitch," Journal of American History, 78:3 (December 1991): 949-971.

  • "Intellectual History and the Return of Literature," American Historical Review, 94:3 (June 1989): 581-609.

  • "The Politics of Cultural Identity," The Atlantic (September, 1986): 4-15.

  • "A World of Double Visions and Second Thoughts," Early American Literature 21 (Fall 1986): 118-130.

  • "The Travail of Religious Moderation," Journal of Presbyterian History 61 (Winter 1983): 411-428.

SERVICE

  • 2004-2007: Co-editor, Rethinking History (a peer-reviewed quarterly published by Routledge).

  • 2007-Present: Editorial Board, Rethinking History. Mainly involves reviewing manuscripts submitted to the journal for possible publication.

  • 2008-Present: Editorial Board, Reviews in American History (a peer-reviewed quarterly published by Johns Hopkins University Press). As above.

COURSES

  • Hist 207: Freedom and Equality in American History

  • Hist 304: Historiography

  • Hist 323: Versions of the Past: Novels, Comics and Movies

  • Hist 324: The Historical Novel in the United States, 1960s to the present.