Paul Mertz
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Office: 202 CCC Phone: 346-3250 E-mail: pmertz@uwsp.edu Title: Emeriti Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma M.A., University of Oklahoma B.A., Phillips University |
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Courses taught:
History 211 United States to 1877
History 212 United States since 1877
History 359/559 Rise of Modern America
History 360/560 Recent America since 1939
History 391/591 Contemporary Historical Problems: Tocqueville-Europe & America
History 391/591 Contemporary Historical Problems: The New Deal (through UWSP
Continuing Education
History 490 Senior Seminar: The Civil Rights Movement
Semester Abroad in London - Fall 2004-05
Specialty:
Recent and Southern United States
Memberships:
Southern Historical Association
Publications:
Book: New Deal Policy and Southern Rural Poverty (Baton Rouge; Louisiana State University press, 1978).
Book Reviews for American Historical Review (3), Journal of American History (4), Journal of Southern History (3), Georgia
Historical Quarterly (2).
Review of Lawrence J. Nelson, King Cotton’s Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal, in Journal of American History, March 2001
Entry on John J. Brewbaker in Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol. 2
Involvements:
Member of the History Department’s panel on Pearl Harbor, 2001
Judge for National History Day, 2001
Spoke to high school Advanced Placement students from D.C. Everest for “Paul Aleckson Day”, May 2001