Christopher Young
Professor of History
cjy@iun.edu
Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2073
(219) 980-6563
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Quick Hits: Teaching with Digital Humanities, Lead General Editor, contracted with Indiana University Press. (Anticipated publication date is May 2020)
[Invited] Mobile Mapping Application and its Potential for Faculty Collaboration and Undergraduate Student Learning” [with Joseph Ferrandino and Faedah Totah], Revue de l'ILCEA4 [Forthcoming, January 2020]
“The Dedication of the Living: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Abraham Lincoln in Chicago and London,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 40, No. 1 (Winter 2019), 1-24.
The Old is New Again: Digital Mapping as an Avenue for Student Learning,” [with Joseph Ferrandino], Educause Review Online, October 2018
“Embracing the Digital Revolution in the History Classroom,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, (December 2018)
“Memory by Consensus: Remembering the American Revolutionary War in Chicago,” Journal of American Studies 50, No. 4 (November 2016), 971-997.
"Teaching and Learning Centers Serve all Faculty," [with Gail Rathbun], Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015), 103-104.
“From Mr. Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, from the Personal to the Historical: Google’s Ngram Viewer as a Research Tool,” For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association 17, no. 1 (Spring 2015), 6-8.
“Serenading the President: John Adams, the XYZ Affair, and the 18th-Century American Presidency,” Federal History 6 (January 2014), 108-122.
“Minding the Realm: William Least Heat-Moon and the Blue Highways of Public Memory,” South Shore Journal, Vol. 5 (2013), 203-209.
“Barnet Hodes’s Quest to Remember Haym Salomon, the Almost Forgotten Jewish Patriot of the American Revolution,” American Jewish Archives Journal 63, no. 2 (December 2011), 43-62.
“Connecting the President to the People: Washington’s Neutrality, Genet’s Challenge, and Hamilton’s Fight for Public Support,” Journal of the Early Republic 31, no. 3 (Fall 2011), 435-466.
“The Gentle Power of Opinion: The Federalist Campaign against the Massachusetts Constitutional Society,” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 19 (April 2011), 12-51.
“Proclamations and the Founding Father Presidents, 1789-1825,” Federal History 3 (January 2011), 80-90.
"`When Fans Wanted to Rock, the Baseball Stopped': Sports, Promotions, and the Demolition of Disco on Chicago's South Side," Baseball Research Journal 38, no. 1 (Summer 2009), 11-16.
“An American Founder’s Dream: Using Benjamin Rush’s Subconscious as an Introduction to the Study of History,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 34, no. 1 (Spring 2009), 11-16.
"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, eds. Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. (Miami, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002), 100-138.
"'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.
General Public
“The ‘Goddard Broadside’: Mary K. Goddard’s Printing of the Declaration of Independence,” Maryland Historical Society News (Fall 2011), 26-27.
“The Primary Documents of John Hancock,” Milestone Documents of American Leaders: Exploring the Primary Sources of Notable Americans. Vol. 2. Eds. Paul Finkelman and James Percoco (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2009), 932-949.
“The College’s Honorable Presence in the Pacific Theater during World War II,” Mac News: The Alumni Magazine of MacMurray College 26, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 28-29.
“St. Stanislaus Kostka: A Brief History of a Landmark Chicago Church,” Illinois Heritage 8, no. 4 (July/August 2005), 18-19.
Newspaper, Newsletter, and Encyclopedia Articles
“College is a place of self-discovery and reinvention,” Diverse Issues in Higher Education, June 2, 2019.
“Lincoln Returns to New Hampshire,” [with Robert Young], For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 18, No. 3 (Fall 2016), 5.
“Liberal Arts Teach Critical Thinking Skills,” [with Mark Hoyert] The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 26, 2016.
“Rip Van Winkle returns to the rink, discovers a revolution,” Let’s Play Hockey (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Vol. 44, No. 24, (March 17, 2016), 4.
“Imagining the twilight of Abraham Lincoln’s life,” The Times (Munster, Ind.), January 10, 2016.
“Two founders died on nation's 50th birthday,” The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 4, 2008.
“Declaration of Independence guided Lincoln,” (Online version: “What Honest Abe honestly thought of the Declaration of Independence”) The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 4, 2007.
“Charles Carroll,” “Fraunces’ Tavern,” and “Liberty Incident,” Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Eds. Gregory Fremont Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006).
“Love, humanity resonate in slavery’s story,” Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, Ill.), February 15, 2004.