John "Kyle" Day

Assistant Professor of History
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of Arkansas at Monticello
PO Box 3619, UAM
Monticello, AR 71656
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Email
Office: MCB 311
870.460.1887
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Courses Taught:

• Arkansas History
• Arkansas History Online
• Modern America, 1900-1945
• Recent America, 1945-Present
• American History I & II
• Latin America
• Mexico
• American South, 1815-Present
• Field courses in Historic Virginia & The New South and the Civil Rights Movement

Fields of Study:

• Massive Resistance & the Civil Rights Movement
• Arkansas History
• American Political Culture

Education Background (Credentials):

• B.A. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 1997
• M.A. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 1999
• Ph.D.  University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006

Professional Memberships:

• Arkansas Association of College History Teachers (Presiding President, 2009-2012)
• Arkansas Historical Association
• Arkansas Humanities Council, Board of Directors 2009-2012 
• National Councilor, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, 2010-Present

About:  

• Co-advisor of UAM’s Alpha Nu Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
• UAM Teacher Education Committee
• Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series Committee, 2010-2012

Awards: 

• Fellowships from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
• Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina
• Deep South Regional Humanities Center, Tulane University
• Dwight David Eisenhower Foundation
• UAM General Assembly’s Faculty Research Committee

 [Selected] Publications:

• Arkansas History: A Collegiate Reader (Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2009). Co-edited with Trey Berry
• “Progressives and Conservatives?: Louisiana’s Bifactional Politics and Massive Resistance,”
• Michael Martin, Ed., Louisiana in Black and White: New Interpretations of Twentieth Century Race and Race Relations, Lafayette: University of Louisiana Press, 2011
• “The Southern Manifesto,” “The Civil Rights Movement-Black Power after 1965,” “Congress,” “Filibuster,” and “Sunbelt,” in James Ciment, Ed. Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. San Juan Capistrano: M.E. Sharpe inc., 2006
• “Lawrence Brooks Hays;” and “Thomas Dale Alford,” in Nathania Sawyer, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Little Rock: The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the Central Arkansas Library System: On-line Journal http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net
• “The New England Federalist Press and Slavery in the Age of Jefferson,” The Historian 65, No. 6 (Winter 2003): 1303-1329
• “The Fall of a Southern Moderate: Brooks Hays and the 1958 General Election of Arkansas,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59, No. 3 (Autumn 2000): 241-264
• “The United States Media and the Guatemalan coup d’ état of 1954,” in The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 2, No. 1 (December 2000): On-line Journal  http://www.udel.edu/LASP/DePLAS.html