Curriculum Vita DAVID F. KRUGLER Professor of History, University of Wisconsin--Platteville History Department, 157 Gardner Hall 1 University Plaza Platteville, Wisconsin, 53818 phone: 608-342-1783 email: kruglerd@uwplatt.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. M.A. History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993. B.A. English and History, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 1991. RESEARCH FIELDS U.S. political, diplomatic, and urban history; African-American history. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009 present Professor of History, University of Wisconsin--Platteville. 2002 2009 Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin--Platteville. 1997 2002 Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin--Platteville. 1993 1995 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Illinois. 1992 1997 Research Assistant to Professor Juliet E.K. Walker, University of Illinois. PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIP Books 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953 (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2000). Articles Washington, D.C., 1941-1952, in Richardson Dilworth, ed., Cities in American Political History (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: CQ Press, 2011). A Mob in Uniform: Soldiers and Civilians in Washington s Red Summer, 1919, Washington History 21 (2009): 49-77. If peace is to prevail: Karl E. Mundt and America s International Information and Education Programs, 1943 1953, South Dakota History 31, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 53-75.
2 Chicago Mayor s Committee on Race Relations, Hoover s Colored Advisory Commission, President s Commission on Campus Unrest, in Nina Mjagkij, ed., Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001). Radio s Cold War Sleight-of-Hand: The Voice of America and Republican Dissent, 1950-1951, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 19, no. 1 (March 1999): 27-38. Radio Enterprises, in Juliet E.K. Walker, ed., The Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999). Reviews Review of Jay Winston Driskell, Jr., Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta s Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014), Journal of Southern History 82, no. 1 (February 2016) Review of Justin Hart, Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (October 2014) Review of Kenton Clymer, The Ground Observer Corps: Public Relations and the Cold War in the 1950s, Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 34-52, H-Diplo Article Review, no. 425: http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/pdf/ar425.pdf Review of Christopher J. Bright, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, vol. XIII, no. 3 (2011): http://www.hnet.org/~diplo/roundtables/pdf/roundtable-xiii-17.pdf Review of Laura Belmonte, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, vol. XIII, no. 3 (2011): http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/pdf/roundtable-xiii-3.pdf Review of James Schwoch, Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), History: Reviews of New Books 38, no. 4 (Fall 2010). Review of Richard Rhodes, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (New York: Knopf, 2007), Journal of American History 94, no. 4 (June 2008). Review of Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), Journal of Cold War Studies 10, no. 2 (Spring 2008).
3 Review of David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004), The Historian 69, no. 3 (Fall 2007). Review of Wilson P. Dizard, Jr., Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), Journal of Cold War Studies 9, no. 2 (Spring 2007). Review of Douglas B. Craig, Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and Michael S. Sweeney, Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), The American Historical Review 107, no. 1 (February 2002). Review of Robert David Johnson, Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), The Historian 62, no. 4 (Summer 2000). Review of Barbara Dianne Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), The Historian 62, no. 4 (Summer 2000). Book Review Editor, H-DC discussion network (History of Washington, D.C.), H-Net, Michigan State University (http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/), 2001 2008. Review of book manuscripts for the University of North Texas Press and Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003; University of Massachusetts Press, 2008; University of Nevada Press, 2009. Review of textbooks for Bedford Books/St. Martin s, Oxford University Press, Thomson/Wadsworth, and Prentice-Hall, 1999-2005, 2009. Article referee for the Journal of Cold War History, 2011; Journal of Cold War Studies, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014; Journal of Military History, 2010; Washington History, 2012. Papers and presentations Sept. 2016 Featured on Wisconsin Public Radio s University of the Air. Feb. 2015 Feb. 2015 Lecture on 1919, the Year of Racial Violence, co-sponsored by Teaching For Change and the Historical Society of Washington, Washington, D.C. Presentation for the Black History Month Lecture Series, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisc.
4 Oct. 2014 April 2014 April 2014 Feb. 2013 June 2012 Sept. 2011 June 2011 Mar. 2011 Feb. 2011 May 2010 Mar. 2010 Discussion leader, Wisconsin Historical Society Reading Group, Madison, Wisc. Why Don t Americans Prepare for Disaster? Lessons from the Cold War and 9/11, lecture to the Phi Alpha Theta chapter, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisc. Presenter for the session Milwaukee: Community and Race, Wisconsin History Symposium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Freedom s Long Trek: The 1963 March on Washington, D.C., public address, Carnegie-Stout Library, Dubuque, Iowa. Teachers as Historians Summer Seminar, presentation (three sessions), Rice University, Houston, Texas. Awaiting the Sirens Call: American Encounters with Disaster Planning from Hiroshima to 9/11, keynote address, Annual History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. Spies, Subversives, and Government Surveillance During the Cold War, presentation, History Channel Seminar Series, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. Defending the Uniform: Biracial Unity among Black and White Servicemen in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1918, paper delivered at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, Houston, Texas. The FBI in Chicago: COINTELPRO s Campaign Against the Black Panther Party and Other Organizations during the 1960 s, Teachers as Scholars program, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the First Generation of Federal Emergency Planners, presentation to the U.S. General Service Administration s Office of Emergency Response and Recovery, GSA Expo 2010, Orlando, Fla. Chicago s Race Riot of 1919, presentation to the Newberry Teachers Consortium, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. Oct. 2009 Roadmap of American History, presentation on teaching World War I, U-46 School District (Elgin, Ill.). Feb. 2009 The Race Riots of 1919: America s War at Home, presentation in the Ideas for a New Century: Liberal Arts and Education Faculty Forum Series 2008-2009, University of Wisconsin, Platteville.
5 Jan. 2009 April 2008 April 2008 Nov. 2007 July 2007 July 2007 Mar. 2007 Oct. 2006 June 2006 Mar. 2006 Aug. 2005 Jan. 2004 The Red Summer: America s Race War, 1919, Teachers as Scholars program, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. We will show the world what it has never seen before : Milwaukee s African American Community, 1919-1939, keynote address delivered at the opening of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society s exhibit, March on Milwaukee: More Than One Struggle, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc. Red Summer: America s Race War, 1919, lecture delivered at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisc. Washington s 1919 Race Riot, paper presented at the 34 th Annual Conference on Washington, D.C., Historical Studies, Washington, D.C. What Twain Foresaw: America s Struggle to Win Hearts and Minds in the Philippines and Vietnam, Sunday Lecture Series, the Masters in American History and Government program, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio. Faculty leader, Homewood-Flossmoor American History Consortium, a two-day seminar on the origins of the Cold War for high school teachers of American history in the Homewood-Flossmoor (Ill.) school district. Secrecy, Surveillance, and the National Security State, Connecting with American History Project, a professional development program for teachers of American history in Chicago s public schools, National Archives and Records Administration Great Lakes Region, Chicago, Ill. Plenary speaker at the 33 rd Annual Conference on Washington, D.C., Historical Studies; speaker at the Montgomery County (Md.) Historical Society. Faculty leader, Summer Institute, Connecting with American History Project, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. Faculty leader for a colloquium on the Vietnam War for the Newberry Library s Chicago History Project. Faculty leader, Summer Institute, Newberry Library s Connecting with American History Project. Of spies and spin: Cold War politics and communist espionage, presentation to the Newberry Teachers Consortium, the Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
6 Sept. 2002 Cold War Capital: The Effects of National Security Planning on Washington, D.C., 1945-1960, paper delivered at the 1 st Biennial Urban History Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nov. 2000 Apathy and the Atom: The D.C. Office of Civil Defense after World War II, paper delivered at the 27 th Annual Conference on Washington, D.C., Historical Studies, Washington, D.C. June 1999 Erasing the Color Line: The Voice of America and African Americans, 1947-1953, paper delivered at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University. April 1998 April 1997 God, Monogamy, and the Newsroom? The 1953 McCarthy Investigation of the Voice of America, paper delivered at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, Ind. Will it play in Peoria? The 1950 Campaign of Truth and the Reconstruction of American Cold War Propaganda, paper delivered at the annual conference of the British Association of American Studies, the University of Birmingham, England. DOCUMENTARY FILM WORK Provided historical guidance to Atlantic Productions for episode 5 ( Secret U.S. Bunkers ) of season 2 of Lost Worlds, which aired on the History Channel on August 29, 2007. Appeared in Tower Productions documentary American Doomsday, which aired on the National Geographic Channel on November 8, 2010. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, University of Wisconsin System Fellowship, Spring 2011. University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Research Grant, 2007-08. UW-Platteville, Scholarly Activity Improvement Fund grants, 2000, 2005, and 2007. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2003. White House Historical Association/Organization of American Historians Fellowship, 2003. Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grants, 1995 and 2001. Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene Travel Grant, 2001.
Hoover Presidential Library Association Grant, 1995. 7 Everett M. Dirksen Congressional Center Research Grant, 1994. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION UW-Platteville 2014 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. UW-Platteville College of Liberal Arts and Education, Excellence in Professional Development Award, 2007. COURSES TAUGHT History of the U.S. since 1877. Imperialism in Africa and Asia. The Vietnam War. History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Twentieth Century America. Twentieth Century Europe. African American History since 1619. The United States since 1945. The United States, 1898-1945. Historiography and Research Methods.