User:Richard Jensen

retired history professor Interests: American political & economic history, historiography.

Education: Ph.D. (American Studies) 1966, Yale U.; dissertation directed by C. Vann Woodward Employment: Professor of History, U. of Illinois, Chicago (1973-97), retired; active now as consultant to school districts Books:

• Historians Guide to Statistics with Charles Dollar (Holt, Rinehart and

Winston, 1971; reprinted by Krieger, 1974)

• The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896

(U of Chicago, 1971), partly reprinted 1996.

• Illinois: A History (U of Illinois Press 2001; Norton, 1978). For

chapter 6 see http://members.aol.com/dann01/illinois6.html

• The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (coauthor, Greenwood,

1981)

• Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983

(Greenwood, 1983).

• World Population (Excelsior College Press, 1999)
• World War Two on the Web (2002, Scholarly Resources Books; coauthor)
• Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe and Asia in the Twentieth

Century (Praeger, 2003) co-edited with Sugita and Davidann.

• Civil War on the Web (2nd ed. 2003; Scholarly Resources Books;

coauthor)

• Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (coeditor vol 4, Macmillan Reference; 2005)

Author of On-Line Resources

• "Scholars Guide to WWW," (1995- updated monthly) published on

numerous History Department WWW pages. For latest version, go to[1]

• "Web Sources for Military History" (1999-, updated monthly) latest

version, [2]

• "World Population: A Guide to WWW" (1998-, updated every few months)

[3]

• "Guide to Political Research On-Line" (1999-, updated bimonthly)

[4]

• "Online Guide to American Political History" (2001-, updated monthly) [5]
• "Railroad History: [6]
• "Civil War & Reconstruction: [7]
• "Vietnam War: [8]

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