Historians of the United States at Texas A&M cover a wide range of topics from the colonial period through the twentieth century, but have special strengths in political, Southern, and Western history, the history of race and ethnicity, women and gender, and rural, immigration, business, and labor history.  Graduate students are encouraged to specialize in one of these areas, but also to think broadly about the history of the United States and to compare U.S. history with that of other nations.

 Faculty in this area:

Alonzo, Armando - Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish borderlands history

Alpern, Sara - American social/intellectual history; American women

Anderson, Terry H. - Modern U.S.

Baum, Dale - 19th Century U.S. political history and quantitative methods

Bickham, Troy -  Atlantic world, Britain and its empire, early American

Blackwelder, Julia Kirk - Modern U.S., American women and U.S. South

Blanton, Carlos - Latino/a, U.S., and Texas

Bradford, James C. - Naval and maritime history; American Revolution and early U.S.

Brooks, Charles E. - Early U.S.

Broussard, Albert S. - Afro-American History

Buenger, Walter L. - Texas and the U.S. South

Dawson, Joseph G. -  U.S. Military History, and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Dunlap, Thomas - Environmental history

Engel, Katherine Carte - Colonial America; Atlantic World; American religion

Hatfield, April - Early America, Atlantic world, and Caribbean

Hoffert, Sylvia - 19th century U.S., women and gender

Hudson, Angela Pulley - American Indian history and U.S. South

Kamphoefner, Walter - 19th-century U.S., American immigration, urban, and quantitative methods

Lenihan, John H. - Modern U.S.; cultural and intellectual history

Livesay, Harold C. - Clifford A. Taylor Professor in Liberal Arts) U.S. and business and economic history

Obadele-Starks, Ernest  - African-American and labor history

Parker, Jason -  U.S. foreign relations and modern U.S.

Ramos, Lisa

Stranges, Anthony N. -  U.S. and history of science

Vaught, David -  U.S. Agriculture, labor; the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era