Peter Knupfer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Knupfer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Knupfer |
| SIGNATURE | KNUPFER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1440-1097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Learning to read while reading to learn: Marcius Willson’s basal readers, science education, and object teaching, 1860–1890
The essay discusses innovations in reading education by the schoolbook author Marcius Willson (1813-1905) through an examination of two popular series of basal readers he produced during and after the American Civil War. His School and Family Series (Harper & Brothers, 1860-) generated acrimonious debate about science education, literacy, and object pedagogy in the primary grades. His successor Popular Series (Lippincott, 1881-) went beyond compi…
How to Write a History Textbook: The Willard–Willson Debate over History Education in the Common School Era
The essay reinterprets the 1845–1847 pamphlet war between Emma Willard and Marcius Willson, authors of popular history schoolbooks. Willson publicly attacked the accuracy and literary quality of history schoolbooks by eight leading authors, with particular attention to Willard's, just as he was publishing his first school history. Willard and Willson practiced different kinds of history authorship that reflected their different backgrounds, intel…
Consultants in the Classroom: Student/Teacher Collaborations in Community History
In the spring of 2011, students in my advanced seminar for history majors at Michigan State University () discovered that nearby Lansing had spent more than a decade fighting over the desegregation of the city’s schools. “I do not think I have ever really thought about who makes up the population of Lansing or how foreign the idea of desegregated schools would be during the time period,” one of them wrote in her class blog, “but it is all beco…
The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861
Journal Article The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861 Get access The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861. By Currie David P.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xviii, 322 pp. $55.00, isbn0-226-12916-0.) Peter B. Knupfer Peter B. Knupfer Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Journal Article The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870 Get access Brown Richard D., The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvii, 252 pp. $29.95. Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
Mitchell quotes extensively from original letters and diaries in this portrayal of the experiences of Northern soldiers on leaving their home communities for the Civil War
What They Fought For, 1861-1865
Journal Article What They Fought For, 1861–1865. By James M. McPherson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. xviii, 88 pp. $16.95, ISBN 0-8071-1904-0.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082023 Published: 01 June 1995
Jackson Reconsidered
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery
Journal Article The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery. By David F. Ericson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 238 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-21683-7. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-226-21684-5.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy
Journal Article Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. By George F. Will. (New York: Free Press, 1992. x, 260 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-02-934437-9.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 355–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081154 Publ…
To Form a More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas of the Constitution
The Art of Compromise and the Right of Self-Creation
When faced with the disaster of the Civil War, Americans prefer to conclude that the Union was secure except for slavery, the tragic flaw or alternatively, that fools had inherited and ruined a nearly perfect machine. This is not altogether surprising: we are a self-deceiving people who need history to affirm the righteousness of our pragmatic, ambitious innovations. Our exceptional virtue must be rooted in the founding or nowhere at all, and so …
The Union as It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
The Return of Henry Clay
The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
Journal Article The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787–1861. By Peter B. Knupfer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xvi + 285 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-1996-4.) Get access Paul Finkelman Paul Finkelman Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pag…
American Union in Federalist Political Thought
The Rhetoric of Conciliation: American Civic Culture and the Federalist Defense of Compromise
It has become a truism among political scientists, historians, and informal observers of American political history that compromise is the hallmark of the liberal polity. The generation of historians writing during and after World War II, having faced the terrible challenge of totalitarian systems and feeling the need to explain and celebrate America's liberal traditions, emphasized the importance of compromise. Clinton Rossiter, David Truman, Ri…
Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism
Journal Article Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism. By Douglas R. Egerton. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. xiv + 343 pp. $35.00.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Arizona State University West, Glendale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1017–1018, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079046 Published: 0…
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery
Journal Article The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery. By David F. Ericson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 238 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-21683-7. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-226-21684-5.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy
Journal Article Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. By George F. Will. (New York: Free Press, 1992. x, 260 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-02-934437-9.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 355–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081154 Publ…
The Rhetoric of Conciliation: American Civic Culture and the Federalist Defense of Compromise
It has become a truism among political scientists, historians, and informal observers of American political history that compromise is the hallmark of the liberal polity. The generation of historians writing during and after World War II, having faced the terrible challenge of totalitarian systems and feeling the need to explain and celebrate America's liberal traditions, emphasized the importance of compromise. Clinton Rossiter, David Truman, Ri…
The Art of Compromise and the Right of Self-Creation
When faced with the disaster of the Civil War, Americans prefer to conclude that the Union was secure except for slavery, the tragic flaw or alternatively, that fools had inherited and ruined a nearly perfect machine. This is not altogether surprising: we are a self-deceiving people who need history to affirm the righteousness of our pragmatic, ambitious innovations. Our exceptional virtue must be rooted in the founding or nowhere at all, and so …
Consultants in the Classroom: Student/Teacher Collaborations in Community History
In the spring of 2011, students in my advanced seminar for history majors at Michigan State University () discovered that nearby Lansing had spent more than a decade fighting over the desegregation of the city’s schools. “I do not think I have ever really thought about who makes up the population of Lansing or how foreign the idea of desegregated schools would be during the time period,” one of them wrote in her class blog, “but it is all beco…
Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism
Journal Article Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism. By Douglas R. Egerton. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. xiv + 343 pp. $35.00.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Arizona State University West, Glendale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1017–1018, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079046 Published: 0…
The Rhetoric of Conciliation: American Civic Culture and the Federalist Defense of Compromise
It has become a truism among political scientists, historians, and informal observers of American political history that compromise is the hallmark of the liberal polity. The generation of historians writing during and after World War II, having faced the terrible challenge of totalitarian systems and feeling the need to explain and celebrate America's liberal traditions, emphasized the importance of compromise. Clinton Rossiter, David Truman, Ri…
The Union as It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
The Return of Henry Clay
The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
Journal Article The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787–1861. By Peter B. Knupfer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xvi + 285 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-1996-4.) Get access Paul Finkelman Paul Finkelman Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pag…
American Union in Federalist Political Thought
To Form a More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas of the Constitution
The Art of Compromise and the Right of Self-Creation
When faced with the disaster of the Civil War, Americans prefer to conclude that the Union was secure except for slavery, the tragic flaw or alternatively, that fools had inherited and ruined a nearly perfect machine. This is not altogether surprising: we are a self-deceiving people who need history to affirm the righteousness of our pragmatic, ambitious innovations. Our exceptional virtue must be rooted in the founding or nowhere at all, and so …
Jackson Reconsidered
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery
Journal Article The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery. By David F. Ericson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 238 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-21683-7. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-226-21684-5.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy
Journal Article Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. By George F. Will. (New York: Free Press, 1992. x, 260 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-02-934437-9.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 355–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081154 Publ…
The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
Mitchell quotes extensively from original letters and diaries in this portrayal of the experiences of Northern soldiers on leaving their home communities for the Civil War
What They Fought For, 1861-1865
Journal Article What They Fought For, 1861–1865. By James M. McPherson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. xviii, 88 pp. $16.95, ISBN 0-8071-1904-0.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082023 Published: 01 June 1995
The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Journal Article The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870 Get access Brown Richard D., The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvii, 252 pp. $29.95. Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861
Journal Article The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861 Get access The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861. By Currie David P.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xviii, 322 pp. $55.00, isbn0-226-12916-0.) Peter B. Knupfer Peter B. Knupfer Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Consultants in the Classroom: Student/Teacher Collaborations in Community History
In the spring of 2011, students in my advanced seminar for history majors at Michigan State University () discovered that nearby Lansing had spent more than a decade fighting over the desegregation of the city’s schools. “I do not think I have ever really thought about who makes up the population of Lansing or how foreign the idea of desegregated schools would be during the time period,” one of them wrote in her class blog, “but it is all beco…
How to Write a History Textbook: The Willard–Willson Debate over History Education in the Common School Era
The essay reinterprets the 1845–1847 pamphlet war between Emma Willard and Marcius Willson, authors of popular history schoolbooks. Willson publicly attacked the accuracy and literary quality of history schoolbooks by eight leading authors, with particular attention to Willard's, just as he was publishing his first school history. Willard and Willson practiced different kinds of history authorship that reflected their different backgrounds, intel…
Learning to read while reading to learn: Marcius Willson’s basal readers, science education, and object teaching, 1860–1890
The essay discusses innovations in reading education by the schoolbook author Marcius Willson (1813-1905) through an examination of two popular series of basal readers he produced during and after the American Civil War. His School and Family Series (Harper & Brothers, 1860-) generated acrimonious debate about science education, literacy, and object pedagogy in the primary grades. His successor Popular Series (Lippincott, 1881-) went beyond compi…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (14 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (12 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · State (computer science (7 works) · American History and Culture (5 works) · Compromise (5 works)