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Faculty

Van Beck Hall

Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1964)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3909 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7463
vanbeck@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s) Political History of U.S.
History of the South

Teaching

General Field Graduate Seminar US thru 1880s
History of the US 1789-1845
United States to 1877
Civil War in U.S.
Comparative Slavery & Abolition
History of the South
Selected Publications

Politics Without Parties: Massachusetts, 1780-1791
(University of Pittsburgh, 1972)

Project(s)

Book length manuscript “The Political Economy of Virginia, 1790-1830”