John Shedd
Education:
Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Course Offerings:
Undergraduate: British History to 1688 (HIS 440), British History since 1688 (HIS 441), Renaissance and Reformation (HIS 346), Senior Seminar (HIS 490), Western Civilization since 1715 (HIS 111), Social Studies Methods (SST 301).
Graduate: Issues in European History since 1500 (HIS 532), Historiography of Early Modern Britain (HIS 642), European Seminar (HIS 661), Historiography (HIS 648).
Research Interests:
English Civil War and Revolution
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Recent Publications:
“The State Versus the Trades Guilds: Parliament’s Soldier-Apprentices
in the English Civil War Period, 1642-1655,” International Labor and
Working Class History, Cambridge University Press, March 2004.
“Thwarted Victors: Criminal and Civil Prosecution of Parliamentary Officials during the English Civil War and Commonwealth,” Journal of British Studies, University of Chicago Press, April 2002.
“Legalism Over Revolution: the English Parliamentary Committee for Indemnity and Property Confiscation Disputes, 1647-1655,” The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, December 2000.
Recent Book Reviews:
A review of Jason Peacey, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda
During the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 2004, appeared in
the Journal of British Studies in 2005.
A review of Douglas Selwyn and Jan Maher, History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students Through Inquiry and Action, 2003, appeared in History Teacher in 2004.
Recent Conference Presentations:
Presented “Getting Ordinary People into the Picture” for teachers
at the Central New York Council for the Social Studies annual conference
in Syracuse, October 2005.
Commentator on papers presented at the “British Literature and Culture” session during the Southern Conference for British Studies annual meeting in Atlanta, November 2005.
Presented the paper, “Puzzle within a Puzzle: A Reassessment of the Struggle Over the Pulpits during the English Civil War and Interregnum” at the Southern Conference on British Studies annual meeting in Memphis, November 2004.