Steven Mintz
Department of History
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-3785
(713) 743-3109
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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
Books
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 and a third edition in 1996.
A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture (New York: New York University Press, 1983). Issued in a paperback edition in 1985.
Exploring Our Formative Past: An Interpretive Anthology Based on the Gilder Lehrman Collection of American History (New York: Oxford University Press). With David Brion Davis.
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: American Men in Families in Historical Perspective." In Alan Booth and Nan Crowder, eds. Men in Families (forthcoming).
"Teenage New Jersey." In Teenage New Jersey (forthcoming).
"Models of Emancipation During the Age of Revolution." Slavery and Abolition, XVII (1996), 1-21.
"A Guide to Recent Books in Native American History." American Indian Quarterly (1995).
"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.
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.
Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in 19th- Century America in Journal of Social History.
Marilyn Irvin Holt, The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America in Canadian Review of American Studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 to the present
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 and the New Jersey Historical Society.
Member, Executive Board, H-Net: Humanities On-Line; co- moderator, H-Film, an electronic bulletin board focusing on the scholarly study and uses of media; and moderator of Slavery, concentrating on the history of slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation.
Manuscript reviewer: Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Ohio State University Press, Oxford University Press.
Proposal reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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 Women's History
The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power
Doing Social History: A Case Study
Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
Making of Ethnic America
Multimedia Introduction to United States History
Nineteenth-Century America
Nineteenth-Century American Social History
Origins and Nature of New World Slavery
Power, Influence and Identity in Antebellum America
Quantitative Methods in History
Slavery and Antislavery
David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History, Department of History, P.O. Box 1504A Yale Station, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-7425
Jackson Lears, Professor of History, Department of History, P.O. Box 5059, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-5059
Richard J. Jensen, Professor of History, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 723 Science and Engineering Offices, 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7049
David Burner, Professor of History, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-4348