Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era
History
Contact
| Office: | Dallas Hall Room 58-C |
| Phone: | 214-768-4043 |
| Email: | aron[@]mail.smu.edu |
| Professional website: | https://smu.academia.edu/ArielRon |
Educational Background
University of California-Berkeley, Ph.D., 2012, University of Maryland-College Park, B.A., 2000
About
I’m a historian of nineteenth-century U.S. politics and economic development, paying particular attention to the dynamics of northern agriculture and the political economy of slavery in the decades of the Civil War era. I tend to think about these topics within the broader frameworks of nationalism, state formation, party politics, systemic racism and the history of economic thought. My new book, Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic, will be out in fall 2020 with Johns Hopkins University Press.
I’ll be on research leave 2019-2020 at the Cornell Society of Fellows and 2020-2021 at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
COURSES
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Intellectual History of Capitalism
The United States as a Developing Country
The Energy Transition in Nineteenth-Century America
CURRENT PROJECTS
King Hay: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the American Civil War Era
The Great Government Giveaway: The Land-Grant Era in American Capitalism
Toward a History of the Associative-Developmental State in America
PUBLICATIONS
Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic (forthcoming in 2020 with Johns Hopkins University Press)
“Taking Stock of the State in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of the Early Republic 38 (Spring 2018): 61-66 (with Gautham Rao, an introduction to a special forum in the journal).
“Summoning the State: Northern Farmers and the Transformation of American Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of American History 103 (Sep 2016): 347-374.
“Scientific Agriculture and the Agricultural State: Farmers, Capitalism, and Government in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (Jul 2016): 294-309.
“Henry Carey’s Rural Roots: ‘Scientific Agriculture’ and Economic Development in the Antebellum North,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 37 (Jun 2015): 263-275.