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Our Faculty:
 
  • John F. Beeler
    Professor
    Ph.D., Illinois, 1991


    • jbeeler@tenhoor.as.ua.edu


    Research Interests:

  • Victorian Britain
  • Public Opinion and Defense Policy
  • Imperial Defense Administration
  • Libertarian Fallacies

    Courses Regularly Taught:

  • Western Civilization since 1648 (HY 102)
  • Great Britain and the Empire/Commonwealth since 1688 (HY 248)
  • History of the U.S. Navy (HY 295)
  • The British Empire and Commonwealth (HY 393)
  • Britain and the World Wars (HY 400)
  • Georgian Britain (HY 493/593)
  • Victorian Britain (HY 494/594)
  • Twentieth Century Britain (HY 495/595)
  • Naval History Proseminar (Graduate Colloquium) (HY 639)

    Recent Publications:

  • British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997).
    • The first in-depth examination of the subject. Revises conventional wisdom about the effectiveness of naval administration during the mid-Victorian era.
  • Donald Mackenzie Schurman, Imperial Defence, 1868-1887, ed. John F. Beeler (Portland, OR: Frank Cass Co., 2000).
    • Dr. Schurman's long-unpublished Cambridge University thesis remains the definitive study of the evolution of a comprehensive scheme for defense of the empire on which "the sun never set."
  • Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870-1881 (London: Chatham Publishing, 2001).
    • Challenges many long-held beliefs about the British navy's receptivity to technological change during the ironclad era.
  • Editor, The Milne Papers: the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. 1806-1896, Volume I, by Alexander Milne et al. (Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2004).
    • Covers the sea-service and early Admiralty service of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne (1806-96), the most important naval administrator of the Victorian Royal Navy.
  • In progress: The Milne Papers: Vols II and III.

    • Research Honors:

  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2005).
  • Winner of the American Historical Association's 1998 Paul W. Birdsall Prize for best work on European strategic and military history for British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University (1991-92).
  • MacArthur Scholar (1988-89).

    • Teaching Honors:

  • University of Alabama Alumni Association's Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award (1999).
  • University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Fellow (2001-2)

    • Online Syllabus:

  • History 102 (Fall 2006)
  • History 102 Lecture Outlines (part 1)
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