Dale Baum
U.S. History: Introductory Survey and Graduate Readings
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Political History
Civil War and Reconstruction
Texas History
Quantitative Methods of Historical Analysis
Counterfeit Justice: A Texas Freedwoman's Story. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming.
The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press,
1984.
"Lyndon Johnson's Victory in the 1948 Texas Senate Race: A Reappraisal" (with James L. Hailey), Political Science Quarterly, 109, no. 3 (December 1994): 1-19.
"Ethnic Conflict and Machine Politics in San Antonio, 1892-1899" (with Worth Robert Miller), Journal of Urban History, 19, no. 4 (August 1993): 63-84.
"Chicanery and Intimidation in the 1869 Texas Gubernatorial Race," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 97, no. 1 (July 1993): 37-54.
"Pinpointing Apparent Fraud in the 1861 Texas Secession Referendum," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22, no. 2 (Autumn 1991): 201-221.
"Texas Patrons of Husbandry: Geography, Social Contexts, and Voting Behavior" (with Robert A. Calvert), Agricultural History 63, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 36-55.
"The Texas Voter and the Crisis of the Union, 1859-1861" (with Robin E. Baker), Journal of Southern History 53, no. 3 (August 1987): 395-420.
"Female Ballots: The Impact of the Adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment" (with Sara Alpern), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16, no. 1 (Summer 1985): 43-67. Reprinted in Nancy F. Cott, ed., History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities (20 vols.; Munich, New Providence, London, and Paris: K. G. Saur, 1994), 18 [Part 2]: 521-545, and in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Politics and Political Change: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001), 263-287.
"Anatomy of a Realignment: New York Presidential Politics, 1848-1860" (with Dale T. Knobel), New York History 65, no. 1 (January 1984): 61-81.
"Teetotalers Enter Politics: The Massachusetts Prohibitionist Party in the Early 1870s," Mid-America 65, no. 3 (October 1983): 137-154.
"Woman Suffrage and the 'Chinese Question': The Limits of Radical Republicanism in Massachusetts, 1865-1876," New England Quarterly 56, no. 1 (March 1983): 60- 77.
"The 'Irish Vote' and Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1860-1876," Civil War History 26, no. 2 (June 1980): 117-141.
"'Noisy but not Numerous': The Revolt of the Massachusetts Mugwumps," The Historian 41, no. 2 (February 1979): 241-256.
"Know-Nothingism and the Republican Majority in Massachusetts: The Political Realignment of the 1850s," Journal of American History 64, no. 4 (March 1978): 959-986.
"Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856- 1861" (with Peyton McCrary and Clark Miller), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8, no. 3 (Winter 1978): 429-457.
"Retórica y realidad en el México decimonónico--ensayo de interpretación de su historia política," Historia Mexicana 27, no. 1 (Julio-Septiembre 1977): 79-102.
"The New Day in North Dakota: The Nonpartisan League and the Politics of Negative Revolution," North Dakota History 40, no. 2 (Spring 1973): 5-19.
Contributor, Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War, edited by John T. Hubbell and James W. Geary (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1995).
Contributor, American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), II: 805-80.
Brief Amici Curiae of Twelve University Professors and Center for a New Democracy in Support of Respondent Twin Cities Area New Party. In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1995, No. 95-1608.
Papers/Comments Presented at Professional Meetings and Universities
"The History of the Matthew Gaines Movement at Texas A&M University," a talk presented to the Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociological Honor Society, Texas Iota Chapter, Texas A&M University, Rudder Tower, College Station, Texas, November 27, 2007.
"Writing About the Life of a Forgotten Freedwoman," a guest lecture presented to Phi Alpha Theta and the W. E. B. DuBois History Club, Prairie View A&M University, New Science Building, Prairie View, Texas, April 18, 2007.
"An American Historian's Abraham Lincoln Meets President Roh Moo-hyun," a paper presented at the 50th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, Institute for Modern Korean Studies, New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, October 11, 2005.
Commentator, "International Liberal Arts Education in East Asia," an international conference entitled "Asian Dynamism and Education of Asian Leadership," New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 23, 2005.
"Counterfeit Justice: A Texas Freedwoman's Story," a lecture presented at the Fulbright Forum for February 2005, Korean American Educational Commission Offices, Seoul, Korea, February 25, 2005, and repeated by request at The Fourth Sogang International Culture Festival, Humanities Building, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, November 2, 2005.
Commentator and Chair, "The Business of Politics: Corruptions, Machine Rule, and Professionalism," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 1999
"'Margaret, Wait Until 1859': Sam Houston's Dramatic Political Comeback," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, Houston, Texas, March 6, 1993.
"Checking for Fraud: Texas Elections During the Civil War Era," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2, 1991.
"Texas Elections During the Civil War: Continuity or Change?" a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1989.
"The Texas Grangers: A Statistical Study" (with Robert A. Calvert), a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, March 4, 1988.
Commentator, "Elites, Voters, and the Racial Policies of Northern States, 1850-1900," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 30, 1987.
Commentator, "Nativism, Voters and the Formation of a Republican Majority," annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, California, April 5, 1984.
Commentator, "New Perspectives on Ecological Inference: Theory and Practice," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Bloomington, Indiana, November 6, 1982.
"The Massachusetts Voter in the Gilded Age," a paper presented at the Symposium on Massachusetts History, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and The Institute of Massachusetts Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1982.
"The 'Irish Vote' and Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1860-1876," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13, 1979.
Works in Progress
Article on "Slaves Taken to Texas for Safekeeping during the Civil War" [An analysis of the migration patterns of slaves "refugeed" by their masters to Texas for greater security from Union troops during the war years] submitted for inclusion in Charles D. Grear, ed., The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State.
Article on "Tejanos and
Reconstruction." [The story of what happened to the lives of Mexican-Texans during the tumultuous period after the Civil War remains largely untold.]
Member, Editorial Board, Historical Methods, 1991-1993.
Member, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 1989-1991.
Member, Editorial Board, Mid-America, 1986-1996.
Member, Board of Reviewers, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 1983-1991.
Anonymous Reader, Manuscript evaluations for the University Press of Virginia,
Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, The Historian,
Mid-America and other refereed journals.
Spanish: Good (Speaking, reading, writing)
Korean and French:
(academic studies)
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Phi Alpha Theta
Social Science History Association
Southern Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association
Chair, "A Comparison of Attitudes in United States and Republic of Korea Media," a press conference entitled U.S. Public Opinion Regarding the Korean Peninsula & ROK - U.S. Relations, Kyungnam University-Korea Press Foundation International Conference, International Convention Hall, Korea Press Center, Seoul, Korea, May 17, 2005.
"Washington County Germans and Their Political Alliance with African-Texans during Reconstruction," a talk presented to the Wie Gehts Club of Washington County, Brenham, Texas, February 6, 1997.
1996-1998: "Aggie Volunteer
Teacher" at Southwood Valley Elementary School, College Station, Texas
1995-1997: President, Brazos Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), College Station, Texas
1995-present: Member, Brazos County Historical Commission, Brazos County, Texas
"Abraham Lincoln in the Context of His Times," a talk given to the Brazos Valley Civil War Round Table, October 1, 1996, Bryan, Texas.
"Facts right, interpretation wrong on Andrew Johnson," guest editorial in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, June 9, 1994, p. A9.
"Black Leaders during Reconstruction and the Establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas," a talk presented to the Fifth Annual Black Former Student
Reunion, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 23, 1994. Reprinted in The Touchstone: Alternative Views for the Brazos River Valley, 4 (Summer 1994): 1-5.
1988-1998: Democratic Party Precinct Captain, Precinct Nine, Brazos County, Texas
1991-1993: Volunteer Teacher, Still Creek Boys Ranch, Kurten, Texas
"Early History of the Republican Party of Texas," a talk presented to the Republican Party Fourth-Senatorial District Five Leadership Conference, Corral Cafe, Madisonville, Texas, June
3, 1989.
1984-present: Secretary, Allen Foundation Inc., Post Office Box 1606, Midland, Michigan 48641
1982-1983: President, Wolfpen Creek Homeowners Association, College Station, Texas