Dr. Michael Flamm

Contact

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

Specialty

Modern U.S.

Education

B.A. Harvard University (1986)
Ph.D. Columbia University (1998)

Professional Profile

Dr. Flamm is a scholar of modern U.S. political history who joined the faculty in 1998. He teaches a broad range of courses from 1877 to the present (for titles and syllabi see below). 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. At Ohio Wesleyan Dr. Flamm has received the Fraternity Council Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2000, the Bishop Francis Emner Kearns Teacher of the Year Award in 2006, and the university's highest honor, the Bishop Herbert Welch Meritorious Teaching Award, in 2012. He has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and as a faculty consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the College Board. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and 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). At present he is 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: History and 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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