Rank:



Professor





Address:



Department of History (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7112

 

Phone: (312) 996-2240
Email: mperman@uic.edu



Education:



• Hertford College, Oxford University, 1963, B.A.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1965, M.A.
• University of Chicago, 1969, Ph.D. (advisor: John Hope Franklin)

• 1967-68, Instructor in History, Ohio State University
• 1968-70, Lecturer in American Studies, Manchester University, U.K.
• 1970-74, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
• 1974-84, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1984- , Professor of History, UIC
• 1990- , Research Professor in the Humanities, UIC
• 1997-2000, Chair, Department of History, UIC
• 2002-2003, John Adams Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands

• Books:
  

• Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973 (also in paperback).
• The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984 (also in paperback).
• Emancipation and Reconstruction. A volume in the American History Series. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson Inc, 1987 (paperback only). Second edition, 2003 (paperback only).
• Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001 (also in paperback).
• Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

• Edited Books:
  
  
  • Perspectives on the American Past: Readings and Commentary on Issues in American History. Two Volumes. Scott, Foresman/HarperCollins, 1989. Revised 2nd Edition: D.C. Heath/Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
  • Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction. D.C. Heath, 1991. Revised 2nd edition: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  • The Coming of the American Civil War. 3rd edition: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

• Articles, Chapters in Books:
  
  
  • "The South and Congress' Reconstruction Policy, 1866-1867," Journal of American Studies, vol. 4, no. 2 (February 1971), pp. 181-200.
  • "Counter Reconstruction: The Role of Violence in Southern Redemption," in The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., editors. Louisiana State University Press, 1991, pp. 121-40.
  • "Commentary on William J. Cooper's paper on Jefferson Davis," in Is There a Southern Political Tradition? University Press of Mississippi, 1996, pp. 42-50.
  • “The Politics of Reconstruction,” in A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Lacy K. Ford, editor. Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp.323-41.
  • “The Democratic Party, 1860-1896,” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton University Press, 2010.

• American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1974
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship, 1979-80
• Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Fellowship, 1979-80
• Institute for the Humanities, UIC, Fellowship, 1987-1988

• Jury Nomination, Pulitzer Prize in History, 1974.
• Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review, 1984
• Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 1985
• V.O. Key Prize, Southern Political Science Association, 1985, co-winner
• Fred W. Morrison Prize in Southern Studies, University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Professional Service:

• Avery O. Craven Award Committee, 1988, Org. of Am. Historians, member.
• Frank L. and Harriet Owsley Prize Committee, 1992, Southern Historical Association, Chair
• SHA Program Committee, 1996, member.
• OAH Program Committee, 1998, member.
• Board of Editors, Journal of Southern History, 1997-2000.
• Associate Editor, American National Biography, 1989-1998.
• Board of Editors, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2007-
• Lincoln Prize, 1998-99, Jury Member
• Distinguished Lecturer, OAH, 2006-09.

Current Projects:

• Third edition of Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Wadsworth Cengage), with co-editor, Amy Murrell Taylor. In preparation.
• The Southern Political Tradition. (Louisiana State University Press).The Fleming Lectures in Southern History, delivered at Louisiana State University in March 2007. In preparation.