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- David T. Beito
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1986
dbeito@bama.ua.edu
Research Interests:
- 20th Century Black History
- 20th Century U.S. Social History
- 20th Century U.S. Urban History
Courses Recently Taught:
- American Civilization from 1865 (HY 204)
- American Civilization to 1865 (HY 203)
- U.S. Black History (Twentieth Century)
- United States History 1877-1917
- United States History 1917-1945
Publications:
- "Selling Laissez Faire Anti-Racism to the Black Masses: Rose Wilder Lane and The Pittsburgh Courier," Independent Review 15 (September 2010).
- Click here for a link to the article(pdf file).
- With Linda Royster Beito,
Black Maverick:
T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
(Urbana, IL: University Illinois Press,
2009).
- For
the Wall Street Journal review of Black Maverick, click here.
- "Mooseheart: 'The Child City'," in Richard McKenzie, ed., The History of Orphanages Reconsidered (New York: Encounter Books, 2009).
- "Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty," Independent Review 12 (Spring 2008).
- Click here
for a link to the article.
- “’Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are:’ The
Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi,
1924-1966,” Social Science History 30 (Winter 2006),
551-69. Click
here for a link to the article
(pdf file).
- Blacks, Gun Cultures and Gun
Control: T.R.M. Howard, Armed Self Defense, and the Struggle
for Civil Rights in
Mississippi,” The Journal of
Firearms and Public Policy (September 2005). Click
here
for a link to the article.
- "T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict
Integrationist Ideology in the
Mississippi
Delta, 1942-1954," Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown:
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South,
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
- Editor, with Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok, The
Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
(University of Michigan Press, 2002).
- From
Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social
Services, 1890-1967 (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2000).
- Taxpayers
in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
- (with Linda Royster Beito), “Gold Democrats and the Decline
of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,” Independent Review
4 (Spring 2000), 555-571. Click here
for a link to the article (pdf file).
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"Rival Road Builders: Private Toll Roads in
Nevada, 1852-1880," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 41
(Summer 1998), 71-91.
Click
here
for a link to the article (pdf file).
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"From Privies to Boulevards: The Private Supply
of Infrastructure in the United States during the Nineteenth
Century" in Jerry Jenkins and David Sisk, eds., Development by
Consent: The Voluntary Supply of Public Goods and Services, San
Francisco: ICS Press, 1993, 23-48. Click
here
for a link to the article (pdf file).
Current Project:
- I am working on an edited collection of the political writings of Zora
Neale Hurston and a study of civil liberties under the New Deal/Fair Deal.
Grants, Awards, and Honors:
- Research Fellow, Earhart Foundation (1992-1993, 2002).
- Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling
Green State University (1992, 1999).
- Ellis Hawley Prize, Best Article by a Junior Scholar, Journal
of Policy History (1995).
- Urban History Association Award for Best Scholarly Journal
Article in Urban History (1990).
- Summer Residence Fellowship, Center for Study of Public Choice,
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (1986).
Other Scholarly Activities:
- Chair, State
Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
- Member, Liberty
and Power (Group Blog at History News Network).
Other Publications:
-
“Six Questions for David
Beito,” Author of Black Maverick (Interview by Scott Horton),
Harper’s Magazine, June 11, 2010. Click
here
for a link to the article.
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“T.R.M. Howard, An Unlikely Civil Rights Hero,” Los Angeles
Times, September 9, 2009. Click
here
for a link to the article.
-
“A
Strong Foundation,” [on Booker T. Washington]
National Review, March 23, 2010. Click
here for a link to the article
(pdf file).
- "The Christian Conservative Who Opposed the Vietnam War" History News
Network, August 21, 2006.
- "The AHA's Double Standard on Academic Freedom" Perspectives, March 2006 (with Ralph E. Luker,
and Robert K. C. Johnson).
- "The Grim and Overlooked Anniversary of the Murder of the
Rev. George W. Lee, Civil Rights Activist" History
News Network, May 6, 2005.
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"New
Probe in Till Case Unlikely to Bear Fruit," Atlanta-Journal Constitution,
May 19, 2004.
- "Why
It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Mystery Will Ever Be Solved,"
History News Network, April 26, 2004.
- "Getting
the State of Alabama to Improve its History Standards: Victories
and Defeats," History News Network, April 9, 2004.
- "Wrong
Song of the South: The Dangerous Fallacies of Confederate Multiculturalism,"
Reason Online, July 19, 2004.
- "Why
We Are Dissatisfied with the OAH's Report on Repression" History News Network, November 15, 2004
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