John "Kyle" Day, Ph.D.

 

Assistant Professor of History

Office: MCB 311

P.O. Box 3619, UAM

University of Arkansas Monticello

Monticello, AR 71656

Office Phone: 460-1887

E-mail: day@uamont.edu

 

 

Current Courses

American History I

Arkansas History

Modern America, 1900-1945

Arkansas History (online)

 

Publications and Major Research Projects:

 

Dr. Day is a historian of modern America, with an emphasis on the New South and postwar America. His research interests include the civil rights movement, massive resistance, and the political and economic transformation of the South after World War II.  He also teaches classes on America in the Twentieth Century, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, modern Latin America and Mexico, as well as Recent America, 1945-Present. He has published articles in The Historian, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas, and Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History.  His article, "Progressives and Conservatives?: Louisiana's Bifactional Politics and Massive Resistance," will soon appear in Race and Civil Rights in Louisiana: Recent Interpretations, edited by Michael S. Martin.  He is currently working on a full length manuscript entitled The Southern Manifesto: How Massive Resistance Was Made. 

 

Professional Memberships:

American Historical Association, Arkansas Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta.

 

Professional Information:

 

Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2006; M.A., University of Arkansas, 1999; B.A., University of Arkansas, 1997). Dr. Day has been a member of the faculty at UAM since Fall 2007.  

 

 

 

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