History
History Address

Todd Estes

Title: Associate Professor
Office: 402 Varner Hall
Phone: (248) 370-3534
Fax: (248) 370-3528
E-mail: estes@oakland.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Major Fields

The American Revolution, the Early National Period, and Jacksonian America

Publications

Books

The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006; paperback 2008).

H-Diplo Roundtable Review of The Jay Treaty Debate (May 2008).

Articles

"Cautionary Tales from the Clinton Administration: First Year Lessons the New Democratic President Can Learn from the Last One" The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 7, No. 1 (2009).

"The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in THE FEDERALIST" Journal of the Early Republic 28 No. 4 (Winter 2008), 523-558.

"Constructing the Syllabus: Devising a Framework for Helping Students Learn to Think Like Historians," The History Teacher 40 (February 2007): 183-201.

"Searching for Synthesis: The Fragmentation of Early American History and the Prospects for Reunification--A Review Essay," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 104, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 95-126.

"The Unpopularity of Popular History in the Academy: An Academic's Thoughts on David McCullough's Visit to Campus," Oakland Journal (Winter 2006): 9-26.

"Where the Votes Are: The Electoral Geography of the Coming Democratic Majority," The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 3, no. 4 (2006).

"The Federalist Party," and "Jay's Treaty," in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 2005), 2:12-15; 2:248-249.

"The Blue States and the Red States: Scouting the Electoral Map at the Outset of the 2004 Presidential Campaign," The Oakland Journal (Fall 2004): 9-20.

"The Election of 1812," in American Presidential Campaigns and Elections: A Reference Guide, ed. Ballard C. Campbell and William G. Shade (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003), 1:166-177.

"John Jay, the Concept of Deference, and the Transformation of Early American Political Culture," The Historian 65 (Winter 2002): 293-317.

"The Art of Presidential Leadership: George Washington and the Jay Treaty," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 127-158.

"Shaping the Politics of Public Opinion: Federalists and the Jay Treaty Debate," Journal of the Early Republic 20, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 393-422.

"'The Most Bewitching Piece of Parliamentary Oratory': Fisher Ames's Jay Treaty Speech Reconsidered," Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Winter 2000): 1-22.

Work in Progress

The Campaign for the Constitution: Political Culture and the Ratification Contest (research for book underway)

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