Faculty Detail
John Shedd
My research interests include the English Civil War and Revolution.
Education
Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Teaching
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).
Publications
Recent Publications:
“Teaching Teaching While Teaching History,” The History Teacher, the pedagogical journal of the American Historical Association, November 2009.
“Bringing Ordinary People into the Picture,” History Teacher, November 2007.
“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:
Review of Howell A. Lloyd, Glenn Burgess, and Simon Hodson, eds., European Political Thought, 1450–1700 (Yale University Press, 2008) appeared in Journal of British Studies, March 2009 (Univ. of Chicago Press).
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:
Panelist, “Rural Education in Central New York,” Central New York Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Syracuse, NY, October 2010.
Paper, “Efforts by Departments of Education to Make Good Citizens: Examples from High School World History State Syllabi,” presented at the American Historical Association annual convention in New York City, January 2009.
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.
Peer Review:
Review, July 2009, of a book proposal submitted to Longman publishers; proposal submitted by Mark Stoyle, “The English Civil War,” for a volume in their seminar series.