GARY KORNBLITH
Professor
Department of History
Rice 306 phone: 58526
gary.kornblith@oberlin.edu

SYLLABI

Interests: Gary Kornblith teaches (on a rotating basis) HIST 103: American History to 1877, FYSP 120: The Collision of Cultures in North America, 1492-1700, HIST 258: The Industrial Revolution in America, HIST 259: Revolutionary America and the Early Republic, HIST 263: The American Civil War and Reconstruction, HIST 323: Liberty and Power, Democracy and Slavery in Jacksonian America, and HIST 325: Native American History, ca. 1450-1900.

Mr. Kornblith's publications include "Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Exercise," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 76-105; "The Industrial Revolution in America" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998); "Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The Artisanal Struggle for Independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston," in American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850, ed. Howard B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje, and Robert Asher (Baltimore, 1995), and "The Making and Unmaking of an American Ruling Class," co-authored with John M. Murrin, in Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, ed. Alfred F. Young (DeKalb, IL, 1993).

Mr. Kornblith is co-editor of the Textbooks and Teaching section of the "Journal of American History". He is currently working with Carol Lasser and Patricia Holsworth on a history of race and opportunity in nineteenth-century Oberlin, Ohio.


Education: B.A. Amherst College, 1973
M.A. Princeton University, 1975
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

Last updated: October 9, 2003