Faculty

John K. Alexander
Professor of History and
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Fields: Revolutionary America, general U.S. History

Phone: (513) 556-2137
Email: john.k.alexander@uc.edu
Office: 331 McMicken Hall

Professor Alexander, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, did his graduate work in history at the University of Chicago.  He came to UC in 1969 and has received UC’s “Dolly” Cohen Award for Excellence in University Teaching (1975) and Distinguished Teaching Professor Award (2003).  While his primary research interests are in the era of the American Revolution, he has special interest in the history of the media, of poverty and of crowd violence in “American” history generally.  He enjoys teaching the full U.S. history survey and is a Chicago Cubs fan to the core.

Selected Courses:
United States Survey (Colonial to the Present)
The Coming of the American Revolution
Revolutionary America
Seminar(s) on Poverty in America
Seminar(s) on Crowd Violence in America
Graduate Historiography Seminar on the Literature of Early American History

Selected Publications:
Samuel Adams:  America’s Revolutionary Politician (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, [paperback edition 2004])

The Selling of the Constitutional Convention of 1787:  A History of News Coverage (Madison House for The Center for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990)

Render Them Submissive:  Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)