Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, University of Houston, 1998-

Co-Director, American Cultures Program, University of Houston, 1996-

Professor of History, University of Houston, 1993-

Acting Chair, Department of History, University of Houston, 1991-1992

Associate Professor of History, University of Houston, 1986-1993

Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston, 1981-1986

Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College, 1978-1980

Yale University and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, "Origins and Nature of New World Slavery," Summer 1995-1997

Pepperdine University, "A Multimedia Introduction to United States History," Summer 1994

Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1989-1990

Harvard University Extension School, "American Ethnic Families," "The United States to 1877," 1989- 1990

Universitat-GH-Siegen, Germany, 1985-1986

Ph.D. Yale University, 1979

M.A. Yale University, 1975

B.A. Oberlin College, 1973

The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). With David Brion Davis. A selection of the History Book Club.

Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (New York: Free Press, 1988). With Susan Kellogg. Issued in a paperback edition in 1989.

America and Its People (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1988). With James Kirby Martin, James H. Jones, Linda O. McMurry, and Randy W. Roberts. A second, revised edition appeared in 1993.

A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture (New York: New York University Press, 1983). Issued in a paperback edition in 1985.

Huck's Raft: A History of Children and Youth in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)

Native American Voices (St. James, New York: Brandywine Press, 1995).

Hollywood's America: Twentieth-Century American Through Film (St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993; revised ed. 1996). With Randy W. Roberts.

African-American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery (St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993).

Critical Issues in American History (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1989). With John Ettling

"From Patriarchy to Androgyny and Other Myths: Placing Men's Family Roles in Historical Perspective." In Alan Booth and Ann C. Crouter, Men in Families (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997), 3-30.

"Teenage New Jersey." In Kathryn Grover, ed., Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975 (newark, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1997).

"Models of Emancipation During the Age of Revolution." Slavery and Abolition, XVII (1996), 1-21.

"Family." In Stanley I. Kutler, ed., Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995).

"Children, Families, and the State: American Family Law in Historical Perspective." In Denver Law Review, 69 (1992), 635-662.

"Life Stages." In Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), III, 2011-2022.

"Family Structures." In Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), III, 1925-1944. With Susan Kellogg.

"New Rules: American Families in the Post-War World." In Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth Nybakken, American Families: A Reference Guide and Historical Handbook (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1991).

"Family." In John Garraty and Eric Foner, eds., Reader's Companion to American History (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1991).

"The State, the Law, and the American Family." In Working Papers of the Harvard University Center for Research on States and Social Organization (1990).

"Regulating the American Family." In Journal of Family History, XIV (1989), 387-408.

"The Family as Educator: Historical Trends in Socialization and the Transmission of Content Within the Home." In William J. Weston, ed., Education and the American Family: A Research Synthesis (New York: New York University Press, 1989), 96-121.

"An Historical Ethnography of Black Washington, D.C.." In Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 52 (1989), 235-253).

"Recent Trends in American Family History: Dimensions of Demographic and Cultural Change." In Houston Law Review (1984), 789-99. With Susan Kellogg.

"Sources of Variance in Black Home Ownership Rates in 1900." In Phylon: The Atlanta University Journal of Race and Culture (1983), 312-331.

"The American City in Transition." In W.W. MacDonald et al., eds., Conflict and Change: America, 1939 to the Present (St. Louis: River City, 1983), 77-84.

"Gender Issues in Film." For a volume on film history to be published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Kenneth Short.

Priscilla Ferguson Clement, Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial Age, 1850-1890 in the History of Education Quarterly (Spring 1998), 83-85.

Nicola Beisel, Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in victorian America in the Journal of American History, (March 1998), 1529

Lela B. Costin, Howard Jacob Karger, and David Stoez, The Politics of Child Abuse in America in the Journal of Social History (Winter 1997), 461-64.

Richard H. Chused, Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the formative Era of American Family Law in the American Historical Review (February 1996), 237-238.

Anthony F.C. Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal in Ethnohistory (in press).

Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America in Journal of Social History (in press).

Marilyn Irvin Holt, The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America in Canadian Review of American Studies (in press).

Lawrence Stone, Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce, 1660-1857 in Journal of Social History (Spring, 1995), 674-675.

Robert Griswold, Fatherhood in America: A History in Journal of American History (September 1994), 746-747.

Betty G. Farrell, Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston in Journal of American History (in press).

John A. Andrew III, From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, The Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America in Ethnohistory, 41 (1994), 480-481.

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap in American Historical Review (December 1993), 1667-1668.

Harvey Levenstein, Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America in Canadian Journal of History, XXVIII (December 1993), 626-627.

Wally Seccombe, A Millennium of Family Change in Journal of Social History (Winter 1993), 388-389.

Jean E. Hunter and Paul T. Mason, The American Family: Historical Perspectives in Journal of American History (forthcoming).

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic in Reviews in American History, 19 (Sept., 1991), 359-362.

Carol Bleser, ed., In Joy and Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South in American Historical Review (forthcoming).

Sally G. McMillen, Motherhood in the Old South in American Historical Review.

Peter Ward, Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada in Journal of Social History, 25 (1991), 171-172.

Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: The History of American Families, 1600-1900 in Journal of Social History, 23 (1990), 834-836.

John D'Emilio and Estelle Friedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America in American Historical Review (1989), 833-835.

Elizabeth Pleck, Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Domestic Violence From Colonial Times to the Present in Journal of Social History, 22 (1989), 778-780.

Glenna Matthews, "Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America in Labor History.

Steven Ruggles, Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth-Century England and America in Journal of Social History (1987), 397-399.

Carol Zisowitz Stearns and Peter N. Stearns, Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History in American Historical Review (1987), 1264-1265.

Vivian Green, Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters Of Mark Pattison And Meta Bradley, 1879-1884 in American Historical Review (1986), 921-922.

"Hollywood as Historian." A lecture presented at Pepperdine University, 1996.

"The Family Transformed: American Family Life in Historical Perspective." A lecture delivered at the Newport Historical Society, 1991.

"Family Instability." A paper presented to the "Best Interest of the Child" conference sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, Ripon College, 1991.

Commentator, "Child Welfare and the State." 1991 American Historical Association annual convention.

"Domestic Violence in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts." A paper presented at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, 1990.

"The State, the Law, and the American Family." A paper presented at the Harvard University Center for Research of States and Social Organization, 1990.

Commentator, "Gender and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America." 1989 American Studies Association Annual Meeting.

"Regulating the American Family." A paper presented at the 1988 Social Science History Association annual meeting.

Symposium on the History of the Family as Educator. 1988 History of Education Society annual meeting.

Commentator, Conference on Education and the Family, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, United States Department of Education, 1988.

Chair, "Stages in the Life Cycle: Nineteenth-Century America." 1988 Southwest Social Science Association annual meeting.

"Patterns of Black Home Ownership in 1900." A paper presented at the 1984 Southern Historical Association annual meeting.

Commentator, "Archaeology and Ethnohistory: Do We Have a Truly Conjunctive Approach?" 1983 American Anthropological Association annual meeting.

Commentator, "Blacks in Twentieth-Century America." 1983 Southwest Social Science annual meeting.

"Profile of an Urban Black Community: Washington, D.C. in 1900." A paper presented at the 1982 Southwest Social Science Association annual meeting.

Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant in African and African-American Studies. In 1992, the NEH awarded the University of Houston $532,000 to establish an endowment of $2.66 million to establish chairs in African History, African-American Literature, and African-American Politics and support fellowships for graduate students in African-American studies.

Co-author and Guide Director, 1995 Annenberg/CPB Grant in World History in conjunction with WGBH-Boston and Northeastern University to create CD-ROMS on "Migration in World History."

Co-Director, 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for $190,000 for "Creating the History Classroom for the 21st Century."

Co-author, 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for $100,000 to support H-Net initiatives in electronic communication and multimedia technologies in the humanities.

Author, 1996 Dean's Council Interdisciplinary Program Initiative in American Studies, $60,000.

Co-author, 1996 Dean's Council Interdisciplinary Program Initiative, Cross-Campus Computer Consortium, $50,000.

Undergraduate Coordinator, History Department, 1992-1995

Editor, "The American Social Experience," a series of new books in American social history published by New York University Press.

Consultant in American family history to the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Consultant in American family history to the Minnesota Historical Center.

Member, Executive Board, H-Net: Humanities On-Line; moderator, H-Film, an electronic bulletin board focusing on the scholarly study and uses of media; and co-moderator, H-Women, an electronic forum concentrating on Women's History.

Manuscript reviewer: Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press.

Proposal reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Cooper Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 1998.

Master Teacher Award, College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication, University of Houston, 1992

Faculty Development Leave, University of Houston, 1989-1990

Research Excellence Award, University of Houston, 1985

Instructional Development Grant, University of Houston, 1984

Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston, 1983

Research Grant, Kanzer Fellowship for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities, Yale University, 1977-1978

Senior Scholar in History, Oberlin College, 1973

Phi Beta Kappa, 1973

American Ethnic Families in Historical Perspective

American Family History

American History Through Fiction

American History Through Film

American Women's History

Doing Social History: A Case Study

History of Private Life

Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century U.S. History

Making of Ethnic America