Associate Professor of History and Humanities. Teaching the Great War blog. A graduate of the University of Michigan, my research interests have included 19th and 20th century German politics and political economy, the Industrial Revolution, and the sugar industry. You can read more about my research here. Forthcoming in Fall 2016 as a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Spatial History.

Stab-in-the-Back manuscript to publisher! May 1, 2015. This evening I sent the text of The Stab-in-the-Back Myth. A History in Documents and Visual Sources. But the first thing I am going to do tomorrow is take a deep breath and cut a dead limb out of our flowering crab is the front yard. Then grade 75 Civ essays. Then start on the next article, do to my editor June 30. This is a great life! A dog of kings.

Just finished a legislative event that Charlene organized for Ohio Rare Disease Day at the Capitol in Columbus. Our representative, Tim Derrickson, spoke as well as his co-sponsor of the legislation establish Rare Disease Day in Ohio. We also had the opportunity to meet other adults and kids with rare diseases.

Among the many initiatives around the centenary of the Great War there is space for a website gathering as much interesting projects as possible, covering a wide range of themes and perspectives, and making digital projects searchable by using categories and tags. You can also enter words in the search field. A number of projects are easily found, but others can be relatively difficult to find.