Indiana University Northwest

Professor Christopher Young

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Publications

  • “An American Founder’s Dream: Using Benjamin Rush’s Subconscious as an Introduction to the
    Study of History,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (Forthcoming, Spring 2009)

  • "`When Fans Wanted to Rock, the Baseball Stopped': Sports, Promotions, and the Demolition of
    Disco on Chicago's South Side," Baseball Research Journal
  • (forthcoming, 2009
  • “John Hancock,” Milestone Documents of American Leaders (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press,
    Forthcoming, April 2009)

  • “French Revolution, Effects on United States,” Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History Vol. 2
    (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming)

  • “Two founders died on nation's 50th birthday,” The Times of Northwest Indiana, July 4, 2008.

  • "Declaration of Independence guided Lincoln," (Online version: "What Honest Abe honestly
    thought of the Declaration of Independence") The Times of Northwest Indiana, July 4, 2007.

  • "Charles Carroll," Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History
    eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson (ABC-CLIO, 2006)

  • "Fraunces' Tavern," Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and
    Military History
    eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson (ABC-CLIO, 2006)



  • "Liberty Incident," Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and
    Military History
    eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson (ABC-CLIO, 2006)



  • "St. Stanislaus Kostka: A Brief History of a Landmark Chicago Church," Illinois Heritage 8, no.
    4 (July/August 2005): 18-19.

  • "Love, humanity resonate in slavery's story," Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, Ill.) February 15,
    2004.

  • "Rites of Passage: Postal Petitioning as a Tool of Governance in the Age of Federalism," [with
    Richard R. John],
    The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and
    Institutional Development
    , edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.
    Miami, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002.

  • "'That Eye Is Now Dim and Closed For Ever': The Purported Image of Mary K. Goddard,"
    Maryland Historical Magazine, 96, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 221-225.

  • "Mary K. Goddard: A Classical Republican in a Revolutionary Age," Maryland Historical
    Magazine
    , 96, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 5-27.

    Book Reviews

  • The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath that Brought Down Al

    Capone
    .  By William J. Helmer and Arthur J. Bilek.  Nashville: Cumberland House, 2004,

    paperback edition, 2006.  Illinois Heritage, 10, no. 1 (January-February 2007)

  • The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture.

    By Todd Estes. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. The Register of the

    Kentucky Historical Society 104, no. 4 (Autumn 2006)

  • Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. By Carl R.

    Weinberg. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Illinois Heritage,

    8, no. 6 (November-December 2005)

  • His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64, by Owen Lovejoy. Edited by William F.

    Moore and Jane Ann Moore. Foreword by Paul Simon. Urbana: University of Illinois

    Press, 2004. Illinois Heritage, 8, no. 2 (March-April 2005)

  • George Washington Reconsidered. Edited by Don Higginbotham. Charlottesville: University

    Press of Virginia, 2001. Maryland Historical Magazine, 96, no. 4 (Winter 2001)