College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor

BA Yale 1965
PhD Stanford 1969

Books:

New Perspectives on Public Health Policy, editor (forthcoming, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Chapters of Erie, editor (Waveland Press, 2002)

Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1993; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982, 1990)

Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy,1800-1900 (Oxford University Press, 1978, 1980)

Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics During Reconstruction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976)

The Radical Republicans and Reform in New York During Reconstruction (Cornell University Press, 1973)

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

Guggenheim Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Rockefeller-Ford Fellow
Pulitzer Nominee
Norman Brown Fellow
Throne-Aldrich Prize
Frances Victor Prize (the Oregon Book Award for non-fiction)

Recent Teaching:

Civil War

Reconstruction

American Identity

American Medical History