BRUCE H. KALK History
BOOKS:
The Origins of the Southern Strategy: The Rise of Two-Party Competition in South Carolina, 1950-1972 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, forthcoming).
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
"Improvement in the Marketplace: An Economic History of the United States Livestock Industry and the Demise of Historic Breeds of Cattle, Sheep, and Swine." In Taking Stock: The North American Livestock Census, by Donald E. Bixby et al, Blacksburg, VA: McDonald & Woodward, 1994: 125-139.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"The Carswell Affair: The Politics of a Supreme Court Nomination in the Nixon Administration," American Journal of Legal History 41 (July 1998): 261-287.
"Yankee Party or Southern Strategy? George Aiken and the Republican Party, 1936-1972." Vermont History 64 (Fall 1996): 236-250.
"Wormley's Hotel Revisited: Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy and the End of the Second Reconstruction." North Carolina Historical Review 71 (January 1994): 85-105.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
The following unpublished reports for government agencies on a consulting basis:
"Perspectives on Tobacco Manufacturing: A Reassessment for Duke Homestead." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, June 1992.
"The Socio-Economic Position of the Aycocks, Nahunta Township, Wayne County, N.C., 1870." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, May 1991.
"The Extinction of Historic Breeds of Livestock." American Minor Breeds Conservancy (AMBC), Pittsboro, NC, February 1991.
"Vernacular Architecture on the Farm." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1990.
"Farm Outbuildings and Fences." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1990.
"Historic Breeds of Poultry." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1989.
With R. Elliot Wright. "South Park-East Raleigh Historic District Nomination." Raleigh Historic Properties and Districts Commission (RHPDC) Raleigh, NC, August 1989.
"Farm Machinery in 1900." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, June 1989.
"The History of Private Rail Cars: James B. Duke's Doris." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1988.
"Benjamin Williams: Farmer-Politician in Early North Carolina." Historic Sites Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1988.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Truman defeats Dewey and Ol' Strom, in South Carolina Historical Magazine forthcoming (April 2000).
Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change, in North Carolina Historical Review 73 (January 1996): 99.
The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective, in North Carolina Historical Review 71 (July 1994): 396.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
With Howard P. Willens and Deanne Seimer. Commonwealth Council of the Humanities Grant, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, "A Political and Legal History of the Northern Marianas Islands," Fall 1993.
Curriculum Related Activities Committee Grant, Southern Connecticut State University, Summer 1993.
George Mowry Award, University of North Carolina, Fall 1988.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Recent American History; Political Parties; South Since Reconstruction
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
"Republican Party Since 1920"
DISSERTATION TITLE:
The Machiavellian Nominations: The Southern Strategy and Richard Nixon's Struggle for the Supreme Court, 1968-70
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill