Faculty

Mark Lause                        
Associate Professor
Fields: Nineteenth Century American History

Phone: 556-1520
Email: MLause@cinci.rr.com
Office: 310C McMicken

My career has focused on nineteenth century labor and social history, particularly in the Civil War period. A current manuscript in submission discusses race and class on the western frontier of the Civil War, addressing the interaction of abolitionists and other radicals with the recruitment and leadership of black and Indian soldiers. Beyond this, my research projects include the following related subject areas: émigré activism on the eve of the Civil War, spiritualism and wartime labor movements.

Selected Courses:
The New Nation
The Age of Jackson
The Civil War, American Labor History I & II
Comparative Working Class History

Selected Publications:
Free Lovers & Red Republicans: Cultural Politics & the Origins of the Bohemian Persuasion in the Antebellum Northern City.  Kent, OH:  Kent State University Press, forthcoming 2008.

Young America:  Land, Labor & the Republican Community.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

The Civil War’s Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the National Greenback-Labor Party & the Politics of Race and Section.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991