John M. Cooper
Professor Emeritus

eMail: jmcooper@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1689
Office: 5135 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5019 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Education: PhD: Columbia; MA: Columbia; AB: Princeton

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Late 19th & early 20th c. political, the South

My Research and Teaching Interests include Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America; American Foreign Policy; Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern History; Twentieth Century American War; Race and Reform. Current Research : Presidential reputations in twentieth century America; the ‘League fight.’

Selected Publications:

• Editor with Charles E. Neu, The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. Arlington Heights, ILL., Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1991
• Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990
• The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1983
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 395 - United States, 1877-1914
• History 397 - United States, 1914-1945

Undergraduate Colloquia:

• History 200 - Historical Studies
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Three American Wars"

Graduate Courses:

• History 901 - Studies in American History