Christine Erickson
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- Christine Erickson
Dr. Christine Erickson
Christine K. Erickson, Associate Professor
E-mail: ericksoc@ipfw.edu
Office: LA279
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00-9:50 am
Christine Erickson is a graduate of the University of Montana and received her Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1999. She is currently working on two projects – one is a book project entitled Fraternity on the Frontier: The Ku Klux Klan in Montana during the 1920s; the other is an article on the anti-Vietnam war movement in western Montana.
Research Interests:
U.S. Women's History; 20th C. U.S.
Publications:
“’Come Join the K.K.K. in the Old Town Tonight’: The Klan in Harlowton, Montana during the 1920s.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 64 (Autumn 2014): 49-64.
“Forging New Ground: Fort Wayne Women 1920-1980” in History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana, 1700-2005 (Evansville, IN: M.T. Publishing Co., 2006)
"'We want no teachers who say there are two sides to every question': Conservative Women and Education in the 1930s," History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Winter 2006): 487-502.
“’So much for men’: Conservative Women and National Defense in the 1920s and 1930s,” American Studies, 45:1, Spring 2004, pp. 85-102.
“’Kluxer Blues’: The Klan Confronts Catholics in Butte, Montana, 1923-1929,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 53 (Spring 2003): 44-57.
“’I have not had One Fact Disproven’: Elizabeth Dilling’s Crusade Against Communism in the 1930s,” Journal of American Studies 36 (2002): 473-489.
“Prohibition.” In Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal, Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2000, pp. 208-210.
"Molly Dewson," American Government Website, ABC-Clio, Fall 2000.
Reviews
First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy by Katherine A. S. Sibley in Michigan Historical Review vol. 36, no. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 147-148.
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America by Francesca Morgan in American Studies Journal, Vol. 50 (Spring/Summer 2009): 184-185.
Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America 1873-1935 by Leigh Ann Wheeler in American Studies Journal, Vol. 50 (Spring/Summer 2009): 177-178.
Scott M. Bushnell, Hard News, Heartfelt Opinions: A History of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette by in Indiana Magazine of History vol. 106, no. 2 (June 2010), p. 199.
Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States
New York, New York University Press, 2004 in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 54(4): 76-77 (2004).
Shawn Lay, ed., The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004 in The Historian, 67(3): 526-527 (2005).
Kathryn S. Olmsted, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002) in Journal of American Studies, 37 (August 2003): 351.
Courses:
Fall 2017
-HIST H106 American History Since 1877
-HIST H217 The Nature of History
Spring 2018
-HIST A318 The American West
-HIST H105 American History to 1877
-HIST H106 American History Since 1877