LARRY M. LOGUE
(769) 572-5282
[email protected]
Current Position
Senior Fellow, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. in American Civilization, 1984
M.A. in American Civilization, 1979
Dissertation: “Belief and Behavior in a Mormon Town: Nineteenth-Century St. George, Utah”
Fellowships and Honors:
Teaching Fellowship, Department of American Civilization
Dissertation Fellowship, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
University of Pittsburgh
B.A. in Political Science, 1969
Prior Academic Employment
Professor of History and Political Science, Mississippi College, 2003-2015
Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Mississippi College, 1997-2003
Adjunct Professor of History, Mississippi College, 1991-1997
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Millsaps College, 1991-94
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Jackson State University, 1991
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, 1986-90
Lecturer, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton, 1985
Principal Courses Taught
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History since 1877
History and Memory in America
Sports and American Culture
History of Crime in America
American Political Thought
The American Presidency
Research Methods in Political Science
Civil War and Reconstruction
State and Local Government
Publications
Monographs
With Peter Blanck, Civil War Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide: Lessons from the Past
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
With Peter Blanck, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War
America (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (Ivan R. Dee, 1996)
A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah (University of Illinois Press,
1988)
Edited anthologies
With Michael Barton, The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader (New York University Press,
2007)
With Michael Barton, The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader (New York University Press,
2002)
Articles
“Elephants and Epistemology: Evidence of Suicide in the Gilded Age,” Journal of Social History,
forthcoming
With Peter Blanck, “‘Benefit of the Doubt’: African-American Civil War Veterans and Pensions,”
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38 (2008), 377-399
With Peter Blanck, “‘There is Nothing That Promotes Longevity Like a Pension’: Disability Policy
and Mortality of Civil War Union Army Veterans,” Wake Forest Law Review 39 (2004),
49-67
“Confederate Survivors and the ‘Civil War Question’ in the 1910 Census,” Historical Methods 34
(2001), 89-93
“Who Joined the Confederate Army? Soldiers, Civilians, and Communities in Mississippi,” Journal
of Social History 26 (1993), 611-23
“Union Veterans and Their Government: The Effect of Public Policies on Private Lives,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 22 (1992), 411-34
“Modernization Arrested: Child Naming and the Family in a Utah Town,” Journal of American
History 74 (1987), 131-38
Articles (continued)
“Tabernacles for Waiting Spirits: Monogamous and Polygamous Fertility in a Mormon Town,”
Journal of Family History 10 (1985), 60-74
“A Time of Marriage: Monogamy and Polygamy in a Utah Town,” Journal of Mormon History 11
(1984), 3-26
Encyclopedia Articles
“Confederate Enlistment,” Mississippi Encyclopedia (forthcoming)
“Jews and the Civil War,” Encyclopedia of American Jewish History (ABC-CLIO, 2007)
Reviews
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, by Brian M. Jordan, American
Historical Review 120 (2015), 1494
The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic, by Barbara A.
Gannon, Journal of American History 98 (2012), 1163-1164
Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served
Under Robert E. Lee, by Joseph T. Glatthaar, Civil War History 58 (2012), 496-498
The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army, by Lorien
Foote, Journal of Military History 74 (2010), 1286-87
Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (2009), 453-55
Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era, John David Smith, ed., Civil
War History 51 (2005), 329-31
Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War, by Larry J. Daniel, Journal of Mississippi History
64 (2002), 240-42
At Custer’s Side: The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd, Eric J. Wittenberg, ed., Michigan
Historical Review 27 (2001), 150-51
Out of the Storm: The End of the Civil War, April-June 1865, by Noah Andre Trudeau, Journal of
Mississippi History 59 (1997), 72-74
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, by Steven Mintz and Susan
Kellogg, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 25 (1989), 246-48
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola, by Rachel Bowlby, Genre 21 (1988),
243-45
Awards for Scholarship and Teaching
Mississippi College Distinguished Lecturer in Arts and Sciences, 2014
Mississippi College Humanities Professor of the Year, 2003
Francis and Emily Chipman First-Book Prize, Mormon History Association, 1989
Service to Mississippi College
Chair, Faculty Development and Evaluation Committee
Member:
Fellowships and Scholarships Committee
Internships Committee
Academic Research Committee
Institutional Review Board
Faculty Council
SACS Accreditation Compliance Certification Group
Sponsor, Mississippi College Black Student Association
Campus Representative, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Competition
Chair, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Deanship Search Committee
Chair, Department of History and Political Science Tenure Review Committee
Service to the Profession
Manuscript referee:
Cambridge University Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Tennessee Press
University of Nebraska Press
Journal of Family History
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Kansas History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Service to the Profession (continued)
Site significance reviewer, National Historic Landmarks Program, National Park Service
Commentator, session on “Memory and Meaning,” Conference of the Society for Military History,
May 2003
Chair, session on “Differential Mortality before the Great Transition,” Conference of the Social
Science History Association, November 1999
Commentator, session on “Preparing and Conducting the Civil War,” Mid-America Conference on
History, September 1997
Commentator, session on “Mormons in Community,” Conference of the Western History
Association, October 1988
Panel member, session on “The Search for Community,” Conference of the Mormon History
Association, 1988
Invited Presentations
“African Americans and Civil War Pensions,” Maxwell School Conference on Military Service and the
Life Course, Syracuse University, Oct. 2007
“Ethnicity, Disability, and Civil War Pensions,” Maxwell School Aging and Disability Conference,
May 2007
“Confederates in Crime: Veterans, the Law, and the Aftermath of War in Vicksburg, Mississippi,”
Conference on the Veteran and Society, November 2000
“Population Dynamics in the New American West,” Conference of the Social Science History
Association, November 1991
“Union Veterans, Victorian America, and Social Science History,” Conference of the Social Science
History Association, October 1990
“Feminism and Patriarchy: Women’s Experience in Nineteenth-century Mormonism,” Conference of
the South Central Women’s Studies Association, March 1987
“Designing a Sample for Mormon Historical Demography,” Conference on the Demographics of
Mormon Populations, May 1984