Thomas Kiffmeyer

Education

• Ph.D. in History (1998), University of Kentucky
• MA (1987), Eastern Kentucky University
• BA (1985), Miami University (Ohio)

Courses Taught & Research Interests

Research Interests: social movements, popular culture, Kentucky/Appalachian history, southern history and the war on poverty

• HIS 202 - American Studies
• HIS 220 - Early American History
• HIS 250 - Practicing History
• HIS 301 - Revolution and Early Republic
• HIS 302 - Age of Jackson
• HIS 303 - Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIS 311 - Native American History
• HIS 323 - Kentucky History
• HIS 325 - Southern History
• HIS 399 - Popular Culture, Early American Industrialization
  
  

Service Activities

• Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
• Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta
• Editorial Board, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
• Board of Directors, Friends of the Kentucky Public Libraries and Archives

Organizations

• Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
• Appalachian Studies Association
• Southern Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians

Selected Publications

• Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty, University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
• Ideology Portrayed in Jacksonian Lexington: Politics, Popular Culture, and "Conscious" Language. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 100 (Winter 2002): 29-57.
• From Self-Help to Sedition: the Appalachian Volunteers in Eastern Kentucky, 1964-1970. The Journal of Southern History LXIV (February 1998): 65-94.