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Ethan J. Kytle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Office: Social Sciences 117 Email: ekytle@csufresno.edu Office phone: 278-6876 Education: Ph.D. – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2004)   M.A. – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1999) B.A. – Haverford College Research/Teaching Interests:  19th-Century America; Intellectual and Cultural History; Civil War and Reconstruction; Slavery and Abolition

Select Publications: 

“The Contradiction at the Heart of American Democracy,” Reviews in American History 36 (Sept., 2008): 390-396

“From Body Reform to Reforming the Body Politic: Transcendentalism and the Militant Antislavery Career of Thomas Wentworth Higginson,” American Nineteenth Century History 8 (Sept., 2007): 325-350

“‘Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?’: Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston,” in Karen L. Cox, ed., Dixie Passages: Tourism and Southern History (University Press of Florida, forthcoming) [co-authored with Blain Roberts]

“‘A Transcendentalist Above All’: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Brown, and the Raid at Harpers Ferry,” in Peggy A. Russo, ed., John Brown Remembered: 150^th Anniversary of John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry (forthcoming)

Strike the First Blow: Romantic Liberalism and the Struggle Against Slavery in the United States, 1850 -1865 (book manuscript)

“Looking the Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Public Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-2010” [co-authored with Blain Roberts]

Courses Offered: 
 

Undergraduate

U.S. History to 1877

Historical Research and Writing

The American Civil War

The Reconstruction of America, 1865-1900

Jacksonian America, 1815-1848

Post-baccalaureate

Introduction to Graduate Writing and Historiography

Civil War and Reconstruction America

Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America