Course Offerings:

• Alma Mater:  A Social History of American Universities and Colleges
• From Sea to Shining Sea:  American Maritime History Since the 1850s
• Survey of American Civilization to the Civil War
• Approached by Sea: Early American Maritime Culture
• A Social History of Columbia University
• Reacting to the Past
• Senior Thesis
• Higher Learning in America
• American Civilization Since the Civil War

Education

• A. B. University of Rochester 1961
• M.A. University of North Carolina 1965
• Ph.D. Harvard University 1969

Current Research Interests:

• History of American Colleges and Universities
• Maritime New York in the Age of Sail

Major Publications:

• Stand, Columbia : A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004 (Columbia UP, 2003)
• Scholars & Teachers: The Faculties of Select Liberal Arts College and Their Place in American Higher Learning (Barnard, 1995)
• [Co-author with John A. Garraty] The American Nation 7 ed. (Harper-Collins, 1987)
• International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Enclosure of American Learning (Columbia UP, 1984)
• Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864: The Last Federalist (Harvard UP, 1974)

Professional Recognitions:

• Gilder Lehrman Senior Research Scholar, New York Historical Society, 1998
• NEH Summer College Faculty Fellowship, 1996
• Emily Gregory Teaching Award, 1987
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975