University of North Florida
Presidential Professor
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Professional Interests I offer courses in U.S. history and in medical, social, and legal history at the University of North Florida. I have authored books on drug use and drug policy, both in American and world history; the special problems of frontier environments, both on the land and in the air; and, most recently, about the culture war that has roiled American politics since the 1960s. I am currently working on a book about pleasure and capitalism in the modern world.
Education I received a B.A. in English from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in History from Rice University.
Books
University of North Florida Teaching and Learning Resources UNF Oral History Project — Creating a University |
Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America
Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City
Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America |
America's Political Shift: Academic Minute broadcast
“Crisply written, colorful, and often out-of-the-box original, this is a bold, sweeping look at the last four decades of American history.”
From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, American politics supposedly took a right turn. Culture warriors blasted secularists while Republicans used popular anger over crime, drugs, welfare, and taxes to win office. Democrats learned to shun the liberal label or, like Bill Clinton, to tack toward the center. Yet, for all the tough talk, no national politician slowed the culture’s leftward drift or reined in the size and power of the government. No Right Turn tells the story of their failure—a failure that puzzled and ultimately enraged principled conservatives of both the moral and economic stripe.
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