JAMES
MARTEN
Professor
and Chair
EDUCATION
PhD,
History, University of Texas at Austin , l986
MA,
History, University of South Dakota , l98l
BS,
History, With High Honor, South Dakota State University , l978
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Marquette
University , 1986-Present
--
Director , Frank L. Klement Lectures, 1991-Present
--
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department , 1993-1994,
1999-2005
--
Director , Children in Urban American Project: A Digital Archive,
1999-2005
Northeast
Normal University, Changchun, People's Republic of China, J. William
Fulbright Lecturer, Institute of American Studies, Spring 1999
Woodbine
( Iowa ) High School, l978-l980, Teacher, English and Drama.
SCHOLARSHIP
BOOKS
Childhood
and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with
Documents ( Boston : Bedford
Books, 2004)
Children
for the Union : The War Spirit on the Northern Homefront
( Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2004)
Civil
War America : Voices from the Homefront ( Santa Barbara :
ABC-CLIO, 2003)
Children
and War: A Historical Anthology , Editor. ( New York : New
York University Press, 2002,
cloth
and paper).
The
Boy of Chancellorville and Other Stories , Editor. ( New York
: Oxford University Press, 2001)
The
Children's Civil War (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998; paper, 2000).
Lessons
of War: Selections from Children's Magazines During the Civil
War , Editor. (Wilmington:
Scholarly Resources, 1999, cloth and paper).
Chasing
Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921-1975 .
Edited reminiscences of Gladys Leffler Gist. (Ames: Iowa State
University Press, 1993).
Texas
, Compiler. World Bibliographical
Series. (Oxford, England: Clio Press, 1992).
Texas
Divided: Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, l856-l874
( Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, l990).
BOOK
SERIES EDITOR : American Childhoods , Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
JOURNAL
EDITOR : Milwaukee History , Milwaukee County Historical
Society
AWARDS
AND HONORS
2004:
MU Division of Student Affairs Award for Enhancing the Quality
of Campus Life
2004:
Appointed to Organization of American Historians Distinguished
Lecture Series
1999:
“Outstanding Academic Book,” Choice Magazine (for Children's
Civil War )
1999:
Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit National Book Award for History (for Children's
Civil War )
RESEARCH
GRANTS
National
Endowment for the Humanities: $176,000 for “Children in Urban
America Project”
SELECTED
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Bringing
Up Yankees: The Civil War and the Moral Education of Northern
Children,” in Burton Bledstein and Robert Johnston, eds., Middling
Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
( New York : Routledge, 2001).
“Exempt from the Ordinary Rules of Life: Sources on Maladjusted
Union Civil War Veterans,” Civil War History 47 (March
2001), 57-71.
“Nomads
in Blue: Disabled Veterans and Alcohol at the National Home,”
in David A. Gerber, ed., Disabled Veterans in History
( Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000).
“'A
Feeling of Restless Anxiety: Loyalty and Race on the Virginia
Peninsula ,” in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Richmond Campaign
of 1862: The Peninsula and Seven Days ( Chapel Hill : University
of North Carolina Press, 2000).
“A
Century of Contradictions: Images of Children in History and in
Art,” in Curtis Carter, ed., Children in Art: A Century of
Change, Exhibition Catalogue (Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum
of Art, 1999).
“Out
at the Soldiers' Home: Union Veterans and Alcohol at the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,” Prologue 30 (Winter
1998), 305-313.
"Fatherhood
in the Confederacy: Southern Soldiers and Their Children,"
Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997), 269-292.
"Stern
Realities: The Children of Chancellorsville and Beyond,"
in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., Chancellorsville : The Battle and
Its Aftermath (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1996).
"In
the Best Interests of the Parent: Children, Material Culture,
and the Law," Reviews in American History 23 (March
1995), 58-63.
"For
the Army, the People, and Abraham Lincoln: A Yankee Newspaper
in Occupied Texas ," Civil War History 39 (June 1993),
126-147.
SELECTED
ENCYLCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Children
in Cities and Suburbs,” in David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia
of American Urban History (forthcoming).
"Children
and Youth" in John Buenker, ed., Encyclopedia of the Gilded
Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming)
"Children
as Soldiers," in Paula Fass, ed., Encyclopedia of Children
and Childhood ( New York : Macmillan, 2003).
"Childhood,"
in Stanley Kutler, ed., Dictionary of American History
( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003 ).
INVITED
LECTURES
"Usable
Childhoods: Civil War Children as Adults," Crossing Boundaries:
New Perspectives on Civil War Military and Cultural History Conference,
Huntington Library, San Marino , CA, October 2003.
"The
War Spirit at Home: Children and Society during the American Civil
War," Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War Conference,
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University , October 2003.
"No
Medals, No Monuments: The Children's Civil War," Ohio University-Lancaster,
May 2003.
"
Milwaukee , the Soldiers' Home, and the Legacy of the Civil War,"
Milwaukee County Historical Society, September 2001.
"Children,
Parents, and the American Civil War," Teaching History Conference,
University of North Texas , September 2001.
"To
Gettysburg and Beyond: Children and the Civil War," Gettysburg
National Military Park , March 2001.
“Touched
by Fire: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers as Civilians,” From the
Mississippi to the Potomac : The Middle West in the American Civil
War Symposium, Carroll College ( Waukesha , WI ), June 2000.
“Children's
Experiences on the Home Front,” Buffalo (NY) Civil War Round Table,
May 2000.
“Community
and Resistance: A Short Course in African-American History,” Seventh
Annual Lenten Lecture Series, Immanuel United Church of Christ
, West Bend (WI), March-April 2000.
“Children
in History: The American Civil War as a Case Study,” Northeast
Normal University , Changchun , People's Republic of China , June
1999.
“Rebellions
East and West: Legacies of the American Civil War and the Taiping
Rebellion” and “Childhood in Crisis: The Civil War and American
Children, ” Nankai University , Tianjin , People's Republic of
China , April 1999.
"Forgotten
Casualties: Civil War Children," Civil War Institute, Carroll
College , Waukesha (WI), January 1998.
OFFICES
IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society
for the History of Children and Youth
--Secretary-Treasurer,
2001-Present
--Co-Editor,
Newsletter, 2002-2005
Society
of Civil War Historians
--Board
of Director s, 2000-Present
Milwaukee
County Historical Society
--Member,
Board of Director s, 1999-Present
--Promotions
and Planning Committee, 1999-Present
--Awards
Committee, 2000-Present
--Editorial
and Publications Committee, 2000-Present
Southern
Historical Association
--Membership
Committee, 2000
