J. David Hoeveler

J. David Hoeveler is a distinguished professor in the History Department a t the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois in 1971.

Research Interests:

American Intellectual History

Teaching Areas:

U.S. surveys, History of Religion in America, U.S. Supreme Court, Theory and Historiography

Recent Publications and Awards:

The Evolutionists: American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin. Lanham: MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Reprint edition published by, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2004.

Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: From Glasgow to Princeton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.