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Our Faculty:
 
  • David T. Beito
    Professor
    Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1986

    dbeito@bama.ua.edu


  • Fall 2008 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 2:50-3:50 p.m.

    Research Interests:

  • 20th Century Black History
  • 20th Century U.S. Social History
  • 20th Century U.S. Urban History

  • Courses Recently Taught:

  • American Civilization from 1865 (HY 204)
  • American Civilization to 1865 (HY 203)
  • U.S. Black History (Twentieth Century)
  • United States History 1877-1917
  • United States History 1917-1945
  • Recent Publications:

  • Forthcoming: (with Linda Royster Beito), Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (forthcoming, Urbana: University Illinois Press, 2009).
  • Forthcoming: "Mooseheart: ‘The Child City,’” Richard McKenzie, ed., The History of Orphanages Reconsidered New York: Encounter Books, 2009).
  • “Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty,” Independent Review 12 (Spring 2008).
  • “’Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are:’ The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924-1966,” Social Science History 30 (Winter 2006), 551-69.  Click here for a link to the article.
  • Blacks, Gun Cultures and Gun Control: T.R.M. Howard, Armed Self Defense, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi,” The Journal of Firearms and Public Policy (September 2005).
  • "T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954," Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
  • Editor, with Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (University of Michigan Press, 2002).
  • From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
  • Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
  • (with Linda Royster Beito), “Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,” Independent Review 4 (Spring 2000), 555-571. [Click here for a link to the article (pdf file)]
  • Current Project:

  • I am working on an edited collection of the political writings of Zora Neale Hurston and a study of civil liberties under the New Deal/Fair Deal.
  • Grants, Awards, and Honors:

  • Research Fellow, Earhart Foundation (1992-1993, 2002).
  • Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University (1992, 1999).
  • Ellis Hawley Prize, Best Article by a Junior Scholar, Journal of Policy History (1995).
  • Urban History Association Award for Best Scholarly Journal Article in Urban History (1990).
  • Summer Residence Fellowship, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (1986).

    Other Scholarly Activities:

  • Chair, State Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
  • Member, Liberty and Power (Group Blog at History News Network).
  • Other Publications:

  • The Christian Conservative Who Opposed the Vietnam War"  http://hnn.us/articles/28879.html History News Network, August 21, 2006.
  • "The AHA's Double Standard on Academic Freedom"] http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2006/0603/0603vie2.cfm Perspectives, March 2006 (with [[Ralph Luker|Ralph E. Luker]], and Robert K. C. Johnson).
  • "The Grim and Overlooked Anniversary of the Murder of the Rev. George W. Lee, Civil Rights Activist" http://hnn.us/articles/11744.html History News Network, May 6, 2005.
  • "New Probe in Till Case Unlikely to Bear Fruit," Atlanta-Journal Constitution, May 19, 2004.
  • "Why It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Mystery Will Ever Be Solved," History News Network, April 26, 2004.
  • "Getting the State of Alabama to Improve its History Standards: Victories and Defeats," History News Network, April 9, 2004.
  • "Wrong Song of the South: The Dangerous Fallacies of Confederate Multiculturalism," Reason Online, July 19, 2004.
  • "Why We Are Dissatisfied with the OAH's Report on Repression" History News Network, November 15, 2004









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