Rank:



Professor




Address:



History Department (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 413-9355
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: jsack@uic.edu



Education:



• B.A., University of Notre Dame (1967)
• M.A., University of Michigan (1968)
• Ph.D., University of Michigan (1973)

• Book:
  
  
• The Grenvillites, 1801-1829: Party Politics and Factionalism in the age of Pitt and Liverpool (University of Illinois Press, 1979)
• From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 (Cambridge University Press, 1993; paperback, 2004)
  
  
• Refereed Articles:
  
  
• "Decline of the Grenvillite Faction," Journal of British Studies (Autumn, 1975)
• "The Grenvilles' eminence rise: The Rev. Charles O'Connor and the latter days of Anglo-Gallicanism," Harvard Theological Review (January-April 1979)
• "House of Lords and parliamentary patronage in Great Britain, 1802-1832," Historical Journal (December 1980)
• "The memory of Burke and the memory of Pitt: English Conservatism confronts its past, 1806-1829," Historical Journal (September 1987)
• "The Quarterly Review and the Baptism of the `Conservative Party' -- A Conundrum Resolved," Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 1991)
  
  
• Unrefereed Article:
  
  
• "Edmund Burke: An Ambiguous Legacy," Reflections: Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society (London, June 1998), p. 2
  
  
• Chapters in Books:
  
  
• "The House of Lords and parliamentary patronage in Great Britain, 1802-1832," in Clyve Jones, David A. Jones, eds., Peers, Politics and Power: The House of Lords, 1603-1911 (Hambledon Press; London, 1986), pp. 347-371
• "Wellington and the Tory Press, 1828-1830," in Norman Gash, ed., Wellington: Studies in the Military and Political Career of the First Duke of Wellington (Manchester University Press; Manchester, 1990), pp. 159-169
• "Lord Grenville and the Peninsula War," in Donald D. Horward, ed., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Selected Papers, 1994 (Florida State, 1994), pp. 146-152
• "Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party in the Nineteenth Century," in Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1997), pp. 76-84
• "Britain in Transition: The Age of George III," in Donald D. Horward, ed., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Selected Papers (Florida State, 1997), pp. 61-64
• "William Wyndham Grenville, First Baron Grenville," in Robert Eccleshall and Graham Walker, eds., Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers (Routledge, London, 1998), pp. 98-101
  
  
• Book Reviews:
  
  
• John Brewer, Party Ideology and Papular Politics at the Accession of George III, Journal of Modern History (June 1978), pp. 336-338
• J. Ann Hone, For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796-1821, American Historical Review (April 1, 1983), pp. 391-392
• Roger Wells, Insurrection: The British Experience, 1795-1803, American Historical Review (June 1984), pp. 766-767
• Piers Mackesy, War without Victory: The Downfall of Pitt, 1799-1802, Albion (Spring 1985), pp. 90-91
• Norman Gash, Lord Liverpool, American Historical Review (October 1985), pp. 930-931
• F.P. Lock, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, American Historical Review (June 1986), pp. 662-663
• Jeremy Black, British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (1985), pp. 51-52
• William Stafford, Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830, Albion (Summer, 1988), pp. 321-322
• Neville Thompson, Wellington after Waterloo, American Historical Review (June 1988), pp. 697-698
• Richard Brent, Liberal Anglican Politics: Whiggery, Religion, and Reform, 1830-1845, Albion (Fall 1988), pp. 485-486
• Gerard O'Brien, Anglo-Irish Politics in the Age of Grattan and Pitt, American Historical Review (October 1989), pp. 1102-1103
• Frank O'Gorman, Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832, American Historical Review (December 1991), pp. 1536-1537
• Keith Perry, British Politics and the American Revolution; and John W. Derry, Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt, and Liverpool, Albion (Fall 1991), pp. 562-564
• Peter Jupp, ed., The Letter-Journal of George Canning, 1793-1795, Archives, (April 1993), pp. 102-103
• L.G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox, Albion (Summer 1993), pp. 327-328
• D.G. Paz, Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England, Locus (Fall 1993), p. 84
• Jeremy Black, Pitt the Elder, American Historical Review (April 1994), p. 557
• John Beckett, The Rise and Fall of the Grenvilles: Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921, Albion (Summer 1995), pp. 326-327
• Jeremy Black, British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolution, 1783-1793, The Historian (Autumn 1995), pp. 164-165
• John Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, American Historical Review (June 1996), pp. 847-848
• Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, American Historical Review (October 1997), p. 1162
• Robert E. Burns, Irish Parliamentary Politics in the 18th Century, 1714-1730, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (No. 15 n.s.), pp. 29-30
• W.M. Elofson, The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768-1773, Albion (Summer 1997), pp. 309-311
• Peter D.G. Thomas, John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty, The Historian (Summer 1998), pp. 915-916

• Popular Scholarship, Encyclopedia Articles:
  
  
• World Book Encyclopedia articles on:  George III; George IV; William IV; Pitt the Younger; Charles James Fox; Edmund Burke; Beau Brummel; Windsor, Canada; Edward VII
• "William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)" in John E. Findling, Frank W. Thackeray, eds., Great Statesmen of the Modern Western World (Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 443-451
• "George Canning"; "Tories and Toryism"; "William Pitt the Younger" in Gerald Newman, ed., Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1832: An Encyclopedia (Garland Press, New York, 1997), pp. 95-96; 710-711; 547-548.
  
  

• Faculty Summer Fellowship, UIC, 1976, $2,000
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, 1984, $500
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, 1986, $500
• Graduate Research Board, UIC, 1986, $2,341.50
• Graduate Research Board, UIC, 1987, $250
• Humanities Institute, UIC, 1993, $561.00
• Humanities Institute, UIC, 1994, $500.00
• Graduate Research Board, UIC, 1995, $9,000.00

Teaching and Other Awards:

• Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching (winner), 1993
• Silver Circle Award nominee: 1977, 1978, 1980, 1992, 1993
• Elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London (January 1998).