Harold S. Wilson		Department of History Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0091 E-mail: hwilson@odu.edu
EDUCATION	Ph.D., 1966, Emory University. Dissertation entitled “McClure’s Magazine: An Intellectual Study of Reform Journalism,” directed by James Harvey Young. Held University Fellowship. M.A., 1959, Johns Hopkins University. Thesis entitled “Democracy among the Brahmins: The Role of Carter Glass in the Disfranchisement of the Virginia Negro, 1901- 1902,” directed by C. Vann Woodward. Held University Fellowship. B.A., 1957, King College (honors).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	Teaching Experience § Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University, 2003 – present. § Associate Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University, 1968 – present. § Assistant Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University, 1966 – 1968. § Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wesleyan College, 1962 – 1966. § Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Emory University, 1960 – 1962. § Senior Fulbright Lectureships and Exchange Appointments § Exchange professor at Kitakyushu University (Kitakyushu, Japan), summer 1995. § The National University of Singapore (Singapore), 1978 – 1980. § Fu Ren University and Tamkang University (Taipei, Taiwan, ROC), 1971 – 1972. Editorships § Editor of the Textile History Review (1963 - 1966). § Associate editor of the Wesleyan Quarterly Review (1964 - 1966). § Editorial assistant to The Great American and The Blue and the Gray.
Publications	Books A Very Peculiar Institution: Manufacturing in the Slave States, work in progress. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, June 2002. McClure’s Magazine and the Muckrakers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. This volume earned the Sigma Delta Chi book award for 1970. Articles “The Cruise of the C. S. S. Alabama in Southeast Asian Waters.” The Journal of Confederate History, IV (spring 1990): 17-31. “Matthew Fontaine Maury.” In The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. William Ferris and Charles Wilson. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1989: The University of North Carolina Press): 1374. “Circulation and Survival: McClure’s Magazine and the Strange Death of Muckraking Journalism.” Western Illinois Regional Studies XI, no. 1 (spring 1988): 71-81. “Adams, Samuel H.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 5-6. “Collier’s Magazine.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 81. “Everybody’s Magazine.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 147-48. “Hearst, William Randolph.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 191-95. “The Independent.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890 -1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 215. “McClure, Samuel S.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 268-69. “Pulitzer, Joseph.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 388-89. “Steffens, Lincoln.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 458-59. “Sullivan, Mark.” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 465. “Tarbell, Ida Minerva” In The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988): 471-72. Introduction to Nellie Thomas McColl’s plantation memoir, Old Folks at Home: An Autobiography, (Bennettsville, SC: privately printed, 1921; reprinted, Norfolk, VA: privately printed, 1984): i - ii. “Mary White Ovington.” In First Person Female American: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of the Autobiographies of American Women Living after 1950, vol. II, American Notes and Queries Supplement, ed. Carolyn H. Rhodes (Troy, N. Y.: The Whitston Pub. Co., 1980): 294-96. “The Dilemma of the Imperial Presidency: War Powers.” The History Journal (summer 1979): 23-27. “The Chastening of the Imperial President.” The Journal of the History Society (June 1979): 54-57. “President Jimmy Carter, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and a Philosophy of the Sea.” Commentary III, no. 2 (December 1978): 15-17. “Did Blacks Ever Have Any White Friends?: Progressive Attitudes Towards Race.” Journal of African-American Studies I (June 1971): 217-35. “The Role of Carter Glass in the Disfranchisement of the Virginia Negro.” The Historian XXXII, no. 1 (November 1969): 69-82. “The Indiana Cotton Mills: An Experiment in North - South Cooperation.” Indiana History Bulletin XLII, no. 5 (May 1965): 75-83. “Rendezvous with History: Wesleyan’s Historical Past.” Wesleyan Alumni Magazine (February 1965). “Georgia Says Never - to Goldwater.” The Great American (fall 1964). “Wesleyan’s Rendezvous with the Past.” Georgia Review (fall 1964). Edited with introduction, Charles C. Jones’ “Pioneer Textile Manufacturing in Richmond County, Georgia.” Textile History Review V, no. 3 (July 1964): 69-83. “Basil Manly, Sr., Apologist for Slavocracy.” Alabama Review (January 1962): 38-53. Scholarly Book Reviews Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002), by William Marvel, forthcoming in Journal of Southern History. Lee’s Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002), by Edward G. Longacre, forthcoming in Journal of Southern History. Thank God My Regiment An African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998), by C.P. Weaver, reviewed for Journal of Southern History (spring 2000): 135-36. New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880 - 1896 (Lafayette, LA: Louisiana Historical Association, 1998), by Joy J. Jackson, reviewed for Journal of Mississippi History (December 1998): 384-86. From Selma to Appomattox: The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery (Shippenburg, PA.: The White Mane Publishing Co., 1994), by Lawrence R. Laboda, reviewed for the Journal of Southern History (November 1996): 816-17. Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988), by Maxime Turner, reviewed for Gulf Coast Historical Review VI, no. 1 (fall 1990): 118-19. Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860 - 1870 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), by Stephen V. Ash, reviewed for Civil War History (spring 1989): 81-83. From Antietam to Fort Fisher: The Civil War Letters of Edward King Wightman, 1862 - 1865, (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1985), by Edward King Wightman, ed. Edward G. Longacre, reviewed in The North Carolina Historical Review (summer 1985): 502-3. A Carolinian Goes to War: The Civil War Narrative of Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General, C. S. A., (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983), by Arthur Middleton Manigault, ed. R. Lockwood Tower, reviewed in Blue and Gray I, no. 6 (July 1984): 30-31. The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), by Joel Williamson, reviewed in Civil War History XXI, no. 4 (December 1985): 365-67. The Confederate Navy in Europe (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1983), by Warren F. Spencer, reviewed in Blue and Gray I, vol. 3 (January 1984): 43. Slavery and the Churches in Early America, 1619 - 1819 (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 1975), by Lester B. Scherer, reviewed for Red River Historical Review (Spring 1977). Friendship Under Stress: U. S. - Swiss Relations, 1900 - 1950 (Geneva: Mouton, 1970), by Heinz K. Meier, reviewed for Social Science: The Journal of Phi Lambda Nu (April 1971). The Textile lndustry in Antebellum South Carolina (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969), by Ernest M. Lander, reviewed for Civil War History (March 1970): 84-85. Preachers, Pedagogues, and Politicians: The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina, 1920 – 1927 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966), by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., reviewed for The Wesleyan Quarterly Review: A Methodist Historical Magazine III, no. 4 (November 1966): 267-68.
PUBLIC APPEARANCES	Media Appearances Published an op-ed column on Civil War tradition and VMI admission of women in the Baltimore Sun, November 1996, which was reprinted in newspapers in Winston-Salem, NC, and Providence, RI. Numerous spot interviews with ABC and CBS affiliates on east Asia, Singapore, Vietnam, Confederate issues, and the state holiday controversy. Thirty-minute interview for the ODU Radio Syndicate on Harriet Tubman in March, 1985. This was an analysis of the evidence upon which Thea Musgrave based the opera “Harriet Tubman: A Woman Called Moses.” Academic Presentations “Morphing towards the Modern: Aspects of Norfolk’s Technological History in the 1880s.” Norfolk Historical Society, November 9, 1999. “The Monitor and the Central America: Comparable Problems for Historical Research.” Southern Historical Association meeting, Norfolk VA, 1988. “Circulation and Survival: McClure’s Magazine and the Strange Death of Muckraking Journalism.” Academic component of Knox College’s Sesquicentennial Homecoming Celebration, Galesburg IL, October 11, 1987. “The Cruise of the C. S. S. Alabama in Southeast Asian Waters.” The Citadel Conference on the History of the South, Charleston, SC, April 11, 1985. “The Confederacy in Search of a Symbol: The Peregrinations of the Committee on Flag and Seal.” United Daughters of the Confederacy Conference, November 18, 1981. “The Confederate States Steamer Alabama in Southeast Asia Waters.” Conference of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, October 1980. “The ‘Roots’ of American Negro Slavery.” Part of a one-day workshop for English language and history teachers at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 1979. “The Ethnic Dimension of Modern American Literary Arts.” Panel presentation, Bangkok American Studies Conference, November 1978. “Race as a Theme in American Culture - The 19th Century Watershed.” Bangkok American Studies Conference, November 1978. “Recent Findings on American Negro Slavery.” Bangkok American Studies Conference, November 1978. “U.S. race relations (1971-72): Slavery, Jim Crowism, and the modern Civil Rights movement.” Six lectures sponsored by the Lincoln Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Conference on Recent Trends in the U.S. Some talks were duplicated at several Chinese universities in south Taiwan. Public Lectures “FastForward: Technological Change in Contemporary America.” Lecturer and moderator at six public presentations on the history of technology for the Norfolk Public Library, March-May 2001. “Authenticity Issues in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain.” Norfolk Public Forum on Current Writings, November 13, 1999. “The Future of the Past: How the 19th Century used History to Project the 20th Century.” President’s Dinner Series, March 2, 1995. “Robert E. Lee and His Critics.” Morning with the Professors, Virginia Beach Graduate Center, October 19, 1993; Canterbury House, ODU, October 21, 1993. “Strategic Notions on the Civil War: New Thoughts on the ‘Seven Days’.” Chesapeake Conference of Teachers of Social Studies, Deep Creek High School, August 25, 1982. “Confederate Naval Power and Law of the Sea.” George Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, May 16, 1992, Peninsula Civil War Roundtable. “New Directions in Interpreting Civil War Military Strategy.” Civil War Roundtable, Tidewater Community College, May 10, 1982. “The Uses of Non-Traditional Sources in Historical Research.” Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Old Dominion University, March 1982. “Muckrakers and the Literature of Reform.” Little Creek Naval Base, January 1982. “Trends in Regionalism: The Changing Racial Character of the South.” Virginia Association of Independent Schools, Norfolk, November 30, 1981. “Trends in Regionalism: The South Joins the Mainstream.” Virginia Association of Independent Schools, Norfolk, November 30, 1981. “Malay and Chinese Cultures in Southeast Asia.” Old Dominion University Roundtable, February 1981. “Nation Building in Singapore.” Little Creek Naval Base, September 1980. “Race and Culture in Modern Singapore.” Larchmont Baptist Church, August 1980. “Jackson, Maury, and Lee: Three Civil Virginians.” United Daughters of the Confederacy Conference, spring 1977. “World Views of Chinese Students.” Tidewater Roundtable, spring 1973. “Trade Prospects with Asia.” World Trade Club, Norfolk, spring 1973. Two lectures at the Asian Student Conference on American Studies: “The Role of American Interest Groups in Foreign Policy Formulation”and “Limits of Executive Initiative in Foreign Policy Formulation.” Hualien, Taiwan, May 1972. Ibid., Old Dominion University Roundtable, March 1967. “Radical Christianity and Communism: Ideological Trends.” College lecture series sponsored by Wesleyan College Student Government Association, December 1966.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES	Moderator and Commentator at Professional Conferences Moderator and commentator, session on historical investigation of the Monitor and Central America shipwreck sites off the North Carolina coast, Southern Historical Association Convention, Norfolk, Virginia, November, 1988. Organized session. Presided and commented at a session on urban development in the nineteenth-century South, at the third Virginia Conference on the Urban South, Norfolk State University, March, 1977 Moderated and commented at a session on Scottish politics at the Scottish Studies Conference, Old Dominion University, April, 1977 Discussion session on African-American history, third Virginia Conference on the Urban South, Norfolk State University, March, 1977 Professional Administrative Activities Secured a grant from the British Council and made all arrangements to bring Scottish professors to Old Dominion University for public lectures, 1991-1995. This was under the auspices of the Scottish Institute. Organized and chaired the founding joint committee of Norfolk State University and Old Dominion University faculty which established the Virginia Conference on the Urban South. This conference ran annually for five years. Chaired the Local Arrangements Committee for the Southern Historical Association Convention in Norfolk in November 1988. Manuscript Review Bedford/St. Martin’s, April 1998: The South in the History of the Nation: A Reader. Ed. William A. Link and Marjorie Spruill Wheeler. Prentice-Hall/Simon Schuster, March 1996: U.S. History text, reviewed 150 pages. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, September 1995: U.S. History Text 9-30-96. reviewed 250 pages. Prentice-Hall, March 1995: The History Project, a political-economic history of the United States, reviewed Civil War and Progressive materials. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, October 1994: Voices from the House Divided: The United States Civil War as Personal Experience, by Glenn M. Linden and Thomas J. Pressly. Editorial comments are acknowledged in the preface of the published volume. Wadsworth Publishing Company (Belmont, California): manuscript review of William Rorabaugh and Donald Critchlow’s A Concise History of the United States, spring 1993. The Historian, journal of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society, summer 1988, an article, “The Decline of Muckraking.” West Publishing Company, December 1987 - January 1988: manuscript review of The Rise of a Great Nation, an innovative American history text book. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, reader and critic of material on 19th and 20th century American diplomacy in the region, 1978 – 1981. American Quarterly: The Journal of American Studies, fall 1981, referee for manuscript articles. National Foundation on the Humanities, October 1977: a project review of a proposed radio series on nineteenth century American autobiographies. Princeton University Press, May 1973: a manuscript biography of Lincoln Steffens.
GRANTS	University of the 21st Century Fund in Virginia to explore the application of computers to the teaching of history (1992) Bicentennial Commission grant to sponsor History Day at Old Dominion University (1990) The United States Military Academy (to participate in a summer seminar in military history, 1987) The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (summer grant, 1968) The Committee on the International Exchange of Scholars (three grants, 1971, 1978, 1979) Old Dominion University Summer Grant (1973) Shell Foundation (1967)
THESIS DIRECTION	Anderson, Alice Lee. “The Creole Affair: Climax of the British-American Slave Controversy, 1831-1842.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1970. Armstrong, Marion V. “United States Tactical Doctrine, 1865-1961: The Mismeasure of Technology.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1991. Blair, Gladys A. “Northerners in the Reconstruction of Hampton, Virginia, 1865-1870.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1975. Bonekemper, Edward. “Negroes’ Freedom of Contract in Antebellum Virginia, 1620-1860.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1971. Brahin, R. Allen. “Francis G. Ruffin, Jeffersonian Agrarian in the Old South and New Virginia, 1816-1892.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1992. Buckingham, David Earl. “The Buchanan Administration and the Closing of the African Slave Trade, 1851-1861.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1975. Chapman, Jesse L. “The Ellet Family and Riverine War in the West.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1985. Cobb, John Michael. “General John Henry Winder’s Administration of Martial Law in Richmond, Virginia, 1862-1864.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1986. Coggeshall, Jerry J. “Hanover Courthouse: The Union’s Tactical Victory and Strategic Defeat.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1999. Connolly, Michael Brian. “Reconstruction in Kemper County, Mississippi.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1989. Cormier, Steven A. “Forgotten Campaign: The Siege of Suffolk, April 11 - May 4, 1863.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1982. Crusan, Ronald. “Confederate Civil War Photographers: Propagators of the Hero Myth.” M. A. Thesis in Humanities, ODU, 1995. Haley, John Hamilton. “The Latter Years of the American Colonization Society, 1850-1865.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1971. Henderson, Dale E. “Methodist Missions to the Plantation Slaves of the South Carolina Conference.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1971. Moore, J. Michael. “Josiah Gorgas and Richmond’s Ordnance Industry: The Arsenal of the Confederacy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1996. Novotny, Samuel. “The Board of Strategy and Union Military Planning for Sea Operations Against the Southern Confederacy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1978. Parker, James Edward. “Confederate Leather Supply: Industrial Improvisation in the Confederacy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1986. Petrine, Stephen Frank. “Benjamin Butler and the Bureau of Negro Affairs in Tidewater, Virginia, 1861-1865.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1975. Pieczynski, Christopher J. “Mr. Wilkes’ War: Chaptain Charles Wilkes and the West Indian Squadron.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1997. Ramsdell, Steven U. “The Gosport Calamity: Evacuation of the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1861.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1986. Reed, David. “Thwarting the Union: William Mahone and the Success of the Limited Offensive at Petersburg, Virginia, June-October, 1864.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1998. Riedel, Leonard W. “The Defense of the Virginia Peninsula, 1861-1862.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1991. Roberts, William H. “U. S. S. New Ironsides: The Seagoing Ironclad in the Union Navy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1992. (Roberts earned his Ph. D. in 1999 at Ohio State University with a dissertation entitled Irrestible Machines: Industrial Mobilization for the Union Navy, 1861-1865. Since December 2000 he has been a technical editor at Battelle, Columbus, OH.) Smith, D. Trent. “Tobacco and Its Role in the Life of the Confederacy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1993. Stiles, Kenneth Lamar. “The Virginia Fourth Cavalry: The Evolution of Tactics in General J. E. B. Stuart’s Cavalry.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1988. Sugg, Harold Gray. “The Negro and the Colored Farmers’ Alliance in North Carolina.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1971. Thompson, Steven. “The Construction of the U. S. S. Monitor.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1987. Wilson, Eugene K. “James K. Burton and the Development of the Confederate Small Arms Industry.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1976. Other Theses Supervised Theses which came out of the Civil War seminars but were signed by other directors, usually during my absences for Fulbright appointments: Becker, Myron. “The Anaconda’s Head: Union Consuls in the Canadas.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 2001. Cooley, Raymond K. “John M. Daniel, Editor of the Richmond Examiner and Gadfly of the Confederacy.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1973. Crew, Roger T. “Cornelius L. Moore: A Northern Soldier’s Perspectives on the Civil War.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1980. Jordan, Erwin Leon. “A Painful Case: The Wright-Sanborn Incident in Norfolk, Virginia, July - October, 1863.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1979. (Jordan, Archivist at the University of Virginia, is finishing up his Ph. D. in history and was ODU’s Phi Kappa Phi distinguished alumnus in 1995.) Kucera, Peter Garrett. “Brigadier General Henry A. Wise, C. S. A.: Western Virginia and Roanoke Island, 1861-1862.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1980. Lett, Wayne Dixon. “John Kirkwood Mitchell and Confederate Naval Defeat.” M. A. Thesis, ODU, 1972. O’Neill, William. “The Massachusetts Heavy Artillery: Red Republican Cobblers in Uniform.” Passed M. A. examination, 1996.