Department of History & Government
Cameron University
608 South Shepler
Email: markst@cameron.edu

B.A.	University of Santa Clara, 1967
M.A.	University of California/Santa Barbara, 1970
Ph.D.	University of California/Santa Barbara, 1975 Dissertation: “The U.S. Senate in the Sectional Crisis, 1846-1861: A Roll-Call Voting Analysis”

1991-1995	Chairman, Department of History and Humanities, Cameron University
1987-Present	Professor of History, Cameron University
1979-1987	Associate Professor of History, Cameron University
1975-1979	Assistant Professor History, Cameron University

U.S. History to 1865, Intro to Hist. Research and Writing, Antebellum South, Jacksonian America, Civil War in America, Reconstruction and Gilded Age

Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1996. 434 pp.

Awarded the Coral H. Tullis Prize of the Texas State Historical Association for the most outstanding book in the field of Texas history for 1996.

Awarded the Gaspar Perez de Villagrá Award of the Historical Society of New Mexico for an outstanding publication in New Mexico history.

James F. Milligan: His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853-1854; His Adventurous Life on Land and Sea (in collaboration with David H. Miller). Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988. 300 pp.

I have written a series of supplemental lectures on various topics in U.S. History to 1865, which constitute a reader for the course. It is titled Supplemental Lectures on Selected Topics, rev. ed. 2007. This work is printed in our own print shop and sold to students at cost.

“The Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty as a Factor in the New Mexico-Texas Boundary Dispute,” in John P. Bloom, ed., The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848: Papers of the Sesquicentennial Symposium, 1848-1998. (Las Cruces: Doña Ana County Historical Society and Yucca Tree Press, 1999), 27-48. Book awarded the Lansing B. Bloom Award of the Historical Society of New Mexico for the best book published by a local historical society.

“Window on Washington in 1850: Tracking Newspaper Letter-Writers,” American Journalism, 15 (Winter 1998): 69-82.

“Treachery or Hoax? The Rumored Southern Conspiracy to Confederate with Mexico,” Civil War History, 35 (March 1989): 28-38.

“Zachary Taylor Versus the South,” Civil War History, 33 (September 1987): 219-241.

“The Case of the Coachman's Family: An Incident of President Fillmore's Administration,” Civil War History, 32 (December 1986): 318-324.

“Intensifying the Sectional Conflict: William Seward vs. James Hammond in the Lecompton Debate of 1858,” Civil War History, 31 (September 1985): 197-221.

“Maryland's Fear of Insurrection at the Time of Braddock's Defeat,” Maryland Historical Magazine, 71 (Winter 1976): 467-483.

“The Kidnapping of Generals Crook and Kelley by the McNeill Rangers, Feb. 21, 1865,” West Virginia History, 29 (October 1967): 13-47.

Robert Divine, T.H. Breen, George Fredrickson, and R. Hal Williams, America: Past and Present, 6th edition (New York: Longman, 2002).

Darlene C. Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold, The African-American Odyssey, 2nd edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003).

Gary B. Nash, Julie Roy Jeffrey, et.al., The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, brief 5th edition (New York: Longman, 2004).

I have presented papers at several regional conferences, most recently at the Mid-America Conference in September 1997. I have also published several book reviews, including ones in Civil War History, Journal of the Early Republic, and Journal of Southern History.

Scheduled paper presentations:

“An Antislavery Republican Stirs Up the House: The Congressional Struggle over the Blake Resolution of 1860,” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, March 31, 2007.

“Frontier History and National Politics: The Issue of New Mexico Statehood during the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861,” Western History Association, Oklahoma City, October 2007.

1. A book-length study of Congress during the secession crisis, 1860-1861, with emphasis on the Constitutional issues which made compromise impossible--research to begin this summer.
2. A book-length study of the South's role in the development and passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.