- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of History
Frank Towers
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2023 - HTST 354 - Cities in Global History | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - HTST 460 - The United States Civil War Era | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - HTST 535.12 - Topics in American History (American Citizenship) | ||||||||||
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Publications
Book
- Towers, Frank. The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Print.
Book Chapters/Contributions - Peer Reviewed
- Towers, Frank. Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered Ed. Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 62-82. Print.
- Towers, Frank. Urban and Rural America in the Civil War The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Vol. 3 Ed. Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Cambridge University Press, 2019. Print.
- Towers, Frank. The Breakup of the Democratic Party in the North: A Battle of Ideas and Organization The Political Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens Ed. Birkner, Michael, Randall Miller and John Quist Baton Rouge: Lousiana State university Press, 2019. Print.
- Towers, Frank. Afterword: The Possibilities of Reconstruction’s Global History Reconstruction in a Globalizing World Ed. Prior, David New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Print.
- Towers, Frank. Party Politics and the Sectional Crisis: A Twenty-Year Renaissance in the Study of Antebellum Political History The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America Ed. Wells, Jonathan D. Routledge, 2017. Print.
- Towers, Frank. To be the "New York of the South": Urban Boosterism and the Secession Movement Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era Ed. Towers, Frank and Andrew L. Slap Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Print.
- Towers, Frank. The Rise of the American Whig Party A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson Ed. Adams, Sean P. Blackwell Publishing, 2013. 328-347. Print.
- Towers, Frank. Navigating ‘the Muddy Stream of Party Politics’: Sectional Politics and the Southern Bourgeoisie The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century Ed. Jennifer S. Green and Jonathan Wells eds. Routledge, 2011. Print.
- Towers, Frank. The Coming of Sectional Crisis The American South: A Reader and Guide Ed. Letwin, Daniel Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 135-167. Print.
- Towers, Frank. The Origins of the Antimodern South: Romantic Ethnic Nationalism, Modernity, and the Secession Movement in the American South Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America’s Civil War to Contemporary Separatists Movements Ed. Doyle, Don H. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Print.
- Towers, Frank. Secession in an Urban Context: Municipal Reform and the Coming of the Civil War in Baltimore From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore Past Ed. Jessica I. Elfenbein, John R. Breihan, and Thomas L. Hollowak Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society Press, 2002. 98-128. Print.
Edited Book
- Towers, Frank and Jewel L. Spangler (eds). Remaking North American Sovereignty: Towards a Continental History of State Transformation in the 1860s New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 274. Print.
- Towers, Frank and Andrew L. Slap (eds). Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Print.
- Towers, Frank, L. Diane Barnes and Brian Schoen (eds). The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Towers, Frank. "Cities as Settings: The Civil War Era in the Urban South". Journal of Urban History OnlineFIrst. (2022). Print.
- Towers, Frank. "“The Threat of Consolidation: State’s Rights and American Discourses of Nation and Empire in the Nineteenth Century”". The Journal of the Civil War Era, (2019). Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Mobtown’s Impact on the Study of Urban Politics in the Early Republic". The Maryland Historical Magazine 107.4 (2012): 469-475. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Partisans, New History, and Modernization: The Historiography of the Civil War’s Causes, 1861-2011". The Journal of the Civil War Era 1.2 (2011): 237-264. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Another Look at Inevitability: The Upper South and the Limits of Compromise in the Secession Crisis". Tennessee Historical Quarterly 90.2 (2011): 108-125. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Strange Bedfellows: The Union Party and the Federal Government in Civil War Baltimore". The Maryland Historical Magazine 106.1 (2011): 7-36. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Balancing the Local and the Global: The American Civil War in Western Canadian Classrooms". Journal of American History 96.4 (2010): 1100-1103. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Job Busting at Baltimore Shipyards: Racial Violence in the Civil War-Era South". The Journal of Southern History 66.2 (2000): 221-256. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Violence as a Tool of Party Dominance: Election Riots and the Baltimore Know Nothings, 1854-60". Maryland Historical Magazine 93.1 (1998): 5-39. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Projecting Whiteness: Race and the Unconscious in the History of 19th-century American Workers". Journal of American Culture 21.2 (1998): 47-57. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "African-American Baltimore in the Era of Frederick Douglass". ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture new ser. 9.3 (1995): 165-180. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Military Waif: A Sidelight on the Baltimore Riot of 19 April 1861". Maryland Historical Magazine 89.4 (1994): 427-446. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Serena Johnson and Slave Domestic Servants in Antebellum Baltimore". Maryland Historical Magazine 89.3 (1994): 334-337. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "Race, Power, and Money in Antebellum Baltimore: Mary Ridgely’s Thousand Dollar Note". Maryland Historical Magazine 88.3 (1993): 317-323. Print.
- Towers, Frank. "A Vociferous Army of Howling Wolves’: Baltimore’s Civil War Riot of April 19, 1861". The Maryland Historian 23.2 (1992): 1-27. Print.
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Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD
University of California at Irvine, 1993 - MA
University of California, Los Angeles, 1988 - BA
University of Wisconsin, 1986
Students
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