My Research:
Research in Progress:
"'An Indian Heart and A White Man's Head?': Returned Indian Students in the Assimilationist Era, 1880 - 1928"
“The Road Not Taken: Catholic Non-Reservation Boarding Schools in Minnesota in the Assimilationist Era” with Patrick Johnston
”From Dream to Nightmare: American Indian Boarding Schools , 1880-1928"
Publications:
Book Chapters:
“Indigenes and Colonizers In The United States And New Zealand ” in Internationalizing Undergraduate Education: Integrating Study Abroad into the Curriculum , Lynn C. Anderson, ed. (Mpls: University of Minnesota, 2005)
“Indian Education and Bureacracy: The Morris Indian School, 1887-1909,” in Anne J. Aby, ed., The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader ( St. Paul : MHS Press, 2002), pp. 348-74 [repr of 1984 essay below]
"'To Kill the Indian and Save the Man': The Boarding School in American Indian Education," in Larry Remele, ed., FORT TOTTEN: MILITARY POST AND INDIAN SCHOOL, 1867-1959 (Bismark: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1986).
“Assimilationist Racism: The Case of the ‘Friends of the Indian'” in R.W. Nelson and D. A. Nock, eds., Reading, Writing and Riches: Education and the Socio-Economic Order in North America (1978)
Articles:
"An Experiment Aborted: Returned Indian Students and the Indian School Service, 1881-1908," ETHNOHISTORY, 44 (Spring 1997).
William G.Tierney, Wilbert H. Ahern, Clara Sue Kidwell, "Enhancing Faculty Development at Tribal Colleges," TRIBAL COLLEGE JOURNAL (Feb. 1996)
"Indian Education and Bureaucracy: The School at Morris, 1887-1909," MINNESOTA HISTORY, 49 (Fall 1984) [recipient of the SolonJ. Buck Award].
"The 'Returned Indians': Hampton Institute and Its Indian Alumni, 1878-1893," J. of ETHNIC STUDIES, X (1983).
"Laissez Faire vs. Equal Rights: Liberal Republicans and Limits to Reconstruction," PHYLON, 40 (1979).
"Assimilationist Racism: The Case of the 'Friends of the Indian'," J. of ETHNIC STUDIES, IV (1976)
"The Cox Plan of Reconstruction: A Case Study in Ideology and Race Relations," CIVIL WAR HISTORY, XVI (1970).
Entries in AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, John A. Garraty, ed (N.Y.: Oxford University Press & ACLS, 1998); ENCYCLOPEDIA of the AMERICAN WEST, Alan Axelrod & Charles Phillips, eds. (NY, Macmillan, 1999); DICTIONARY of AFRO-AMERICAN SLAVERY, John David Smith and Randall M. Miller, eds. (Westport,CT, 1988); BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of SOCIAL WELFARE in AMERICA, Walter Trattner, ed.(Westport, CT, 1985); THE DICTIONARY of AMERICAN NEGRO BIOGRAPHY, Rayford W. Logan and Michael Winston, eds., (N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1979); ENCYCLOPEDIA of SOUTHERN HISTORY (1979).
Book reviews in American Historical Review, American Indian Quarterly, History Teacher, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Minnesota History, North Dakota History, Political Science Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly.