Kevin R.C. Gutzman
Warner Hall 222
Office Phone: (203) 837-8455
Email:
gutzmank@wcsu.edu
Website: http://kevingutzman.com
Education:
Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia, 1999
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1990
M.A. in History, University of Virginia, 1994
Master of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of
Texas, 1990
B.A. in Plan II/History Honors, With Honors, University of Texas, 1985
Teaching Interests:
American Revolution
Age of Jefferson
Antebellum United States
Southern History
American Constitutional History
Honors and Research:
Professor Kevin R. C. Gutzman is an expert in the Middle Period of American history, 1760-1877, with additional areas of expertise in American constitutional and Southern history.
Dr. Gutzman was Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at New College in Sarasota, Florida (March 2008).
He will give the annual Jefferson Lecture at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in September 2009.
He was a featured expert in the documentary film "John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist" (FFH, 2005).
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush (co-authored with Thomas E. Woods, Jr.).
The paperback edition, Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama, will appear in July 2009.
Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840 (Lexington Books, 2007).
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution (Regnery Press, 2007).
BOOK CHAPTER
“Lincoln as Jeffersonian: The Colonization Chimera” (which appears in Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, ed. Brian Dirck (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007)).
MAJOR ARTICLES
“Edmund Randolph and Virginia Constitutionalism,” The Review of Politics 66 (2004), 469-97.
“Paul to Jeremiah: Calhoun’s Abandonment of Nationalism,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring 2002), 3-34.
"Jefferson's Draft Declaration of Independence, Richard Bland, and the Revolutionary Legacy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due," The Journal of the Historical Society 1 (2001), 137-154.
“The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered: ‘An Appeal to the Real Laws of Our Country,’” The Journal of Southern History 66 (2000), 473-496.
“Preserving the Patrimony: William Branch Giles and Virginia versus the Federal Tariff,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 104 (1996), 341-372.
“A Troublesome Legacy: James Madison and ‘The Principles of '98,’" Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1995), 569-589.
Dr. Gutzman has also served as historical consultant for two documentary CDs; edited new editions of two political science classics; published numerous other scholarly articles; contributed over fifty articles to scholarly encyclopedias; written scholarly reviews of over ninety books, films, and exhibitions for all the leading history journals and many popular outlets; spoken at academic conventions, universities, and to civic groups all over the country; and published numerous other essays in publications both scholarly and popular.