Professor

310C McMicken Hall
513-556-1520
mark.lause@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Professor Lause grew up in a small blue collar community and worked his way through college during the 1960s and 70s. His academic interests seemed to center naturally on the history of class and social movements in the United States.

Lause has done extensive work in nineteenth century labor and social history, including numerous articles in academic journals and reference material. His initial work focused on early printers to discuss the origins of an American labor movement: “Some Degree of Power”: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991) documented the first generation of unionists in that craft.

Lause’s subsequent work has sought new ways of examining and understanding the sectional crisis and the Civil War "from the bottom up." He argued for the complexity of the Republican and Unionist coalition—before and after—in Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community (Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005) on the antebellum land reform movement and The Civil War's Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party & the Politics of Race & Section (Lanpham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001). His Race & Radicalism in the Union Army (Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009) explores the wartime collaboration of blacks, Indians and whites in the Transmississippi under the leadership of those abolitionists, land reformers, socialists and others who had been associated with John Brown before the Civil War. The Antebellum Political Crisis & the First American Bohemians (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009) discusses the cultural impact of escalating sectional and electoral pressures on antebellum radicalism.

In addition, Lause has two book manuscripts in submission, dealing with: secret societies in the Civil War period; and, the 1864 invasion of Missouri. He is also working on two further book projects, one on spiritualism and another on labor movements during the Civil War years.

Professor Lause also has a standing interest in comparative studies and has been heavily influenced by the work of scholars on history elsewhere than the United States.

Education

PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985.

Books

Lause, Mark (2009). Race & Radicalism in the Union Army.. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Lause, Mark (2009). The Antebellum Crisis and America’s First Bohemians. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.

Encyclopedia Articles

Lause, Mark (2003). Greenbackism. In Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.

Courses Taught

15-HIST-110 AM HIST TO 1848 .

15-HIST-111 AM HIST 1848-1929.

15-HIST-112 AM HIST SINCE 1929.

15-HIST-300 INTRO HIST THINKING.

15-HIST-462 SEM FOR HISTORY MAJ .

15-HIST-463 SEM FOR HISTORY MAJ.

15-HIST-520 THE CIVIL WAR.

15-HIST-523 NEW NATN 1789-1819 .

15-HIST-524 AGE OF JACKSON.

15-HIST-549 AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY I.

15-HIST-550 AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY II.

15-HIST-556 GREAT DEPRESSION .

15-HIST-596 COMPARATIVE WORKING CLASS HISTORY.

15-HIST-609 FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

15-HIST-767 AMERICAN RADICALISM.