Dr. Michael Flamm

Office: Elliott 114
Telephone: 740-368-3634
Email: mwflamm@owu.edu

Specialty

Modern America

Education

B.A. Harvard University, M.A. and Ph.D. Columbia University

Biography

Dr. Flamm is a specialist in modern U.S. history. He teaches temporal surveys of American history since 1877 and specialized courses on America and Vietnam, Crime and Punishment, Women and Gender, Historical Fiction, America in the Sixties, and American Foreign Relations Since 1917. On behalf of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, he has offered summer seminars at Columbia University and Georgetown University; he has also taught at San Andrés University in Buenos Aires as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Specialist. Dr. Flamm has received several teaching awards, including the Bishop Herbert Welch Meritorious Teaching Award in 2012 and the Bishop Francis Emner Kearns Award as Teacher of the Year in 2006. He has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the College Board. He is the author or co-author of five books, including Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (2005), Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (2007),  Debating the Reagan Presidency (2009), and The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (2011). He is currently writing a book titled In the Heat of the Summer: Racial Unrest in New York, 1964.

 Personal Profile

Dr. Flamm is a proud Minnesotan and avid fan of the Twins and Vikings. After college he spent five years as a high school history teacher in New Jersey and New York. He lives in Columbus with his wife, Jennifer McNally, and their children, Austin and Alexandra. When he has the time, he enjoys tennis, skiing, travel, jazz, theater, and films of all kinds. He also likes to read contemporary, classic, and historical fiction as well as mystery novels.

Courses Taught

History 114: Introduction to Modern American History (PDF*)

History 160: America in the Sixties (PDF*)

History 250: Historical Inquiry (PDF*)

History 376: The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1929 (PDF*)

History 377: The Transformation of Modern America, 1929-1960 (PDF*)

History 378: The Ascendance of Modern America, 1960-2001 (PDF*)

History 380: American Foreign Relations Since 1917 (PDF*)

History 381: America and Vietnam (PDF*)

History 385A: Crime and Punishment in Modern America (PDF*)

History 385B: Women and Gender in Modern America (PDF*)

History 385C: World War II (PDF*)

History 385D: Historical Fiction in Modern America (PDF*)

History 493: Senior Seminar (PDF*)

Major Publications

Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. Columbia
     University Press, 2005.

The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom 2^nd ed.
     University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Debating the Reagan Presidency (with John Ehrman).  Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (with David Steigerwald).
     Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Curriculum Vitae

Click here for Dr. Flamm’s CV (PDF*).

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