• Lawrence F. Kohl
  Associate Professor,
  Blount Senior Fellow and Director of Undergraduate Studies
  Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980
  B.A., Harvard University, 1970
  

Office: 221 ten Hoor
Phone: 205 348-1852

lfkohl@as.ua.edu


Research Interests:

• United States History, 1815-1865
• Civil War
• Antebellum Politics
• The Irish in America

History Courses Regularly Taught:

• U.S. History to 1865 (HY 203)
• The Coming of the Civil War (HY 314)
• The Civil War (HY 315)
• Life of Abraham Lincoln (HY 316)
• Survey of Irish History (HY 390)
• The Literature of American History (HY 601)

Blount Courses Taught:

• Individualism and Its Critics in American Life (BUI 301)
• "Against the Grain": Challenging Our Central Beliefs(BUI 301)

Publications:

• The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, paperback ed., 1991).
• Editor, Patrick D. O'Flaherty, The Fighting Sixty-Ninth, The Early Years: 1851-1861 (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
• Editor, St. Clair Mulholland, The Story of the 116th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995).
• Editor, David Power Conyngham, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns (New York: Fordham University Press, 1994).
• Editor, William Corby, Memoirs of Chaplain Life: Three Years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac (New York: Fordham University Press, 1992).
• Editor, Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh (New York: Fordham University Press, 1986, paperback edition, 1994).

Teaching Awards:

• Lilly Teaching Scholar (1989)
• College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Fellow (2005-2008)