Areas of Interest

British Political & Constitutional History, Modern Irish History, British Empire & Commonwealth, & Sport History (Weightlifting)

Courses Taught

England to 1660, England since 1660, World War I, Modern Britain, A Cultural History of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, The British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations, and Advanced Topics in British History, A History of American Weightlifting & Bodybuilding , World Civilization and Society I and II.

Recent Publications

Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).

"Nelson Tift: A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton's Court," The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Fall, 2004)

"Labour's Rise and the Liberal Demise: A Quantitative Perspective on the Great Debate, 1906-1918," Albion (Spring, 2002).

"Georgia: Cradle of Southern Strongmen in the Twentieth Century," Atlanta History, A Journal of Georgia and the South (Summer, 2002).

"The Georgia Peach and the Southern Quest for Commercial Equity and Independence," The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Fall, 2002).

"Mr. and Miss America: A Tale of Contrasting Cultures in the Twentieth Century," Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, XXII (2002).

"Parliamentary Policies," in History in Dispute: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, edited by Keith Krawczynski, St. James Press (2003).

"Idealism or Racism: Color Consciousness and the AAU Mr. America Contest, 1939-1982," Iron Game History (June 2003).

Honors, Offices and Positions Held

Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Professor Emeritus of History, Auburn University
Graduate Coordinator for M.A. Degree in History
Board of Directors, Center for Georgia Studies
Author of Physical Culture Articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, The New Encyclopedia of Georgia, and The Encyclopedia of Alabama.