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Peter Coogan Peter Coogan, associate professor; B.A., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Professor Coogan teaches American foreign relations, the history of international relations, revolution and war in Vietnam, and modern American political history. His seminars have included the Cold War, America's rise to power, and the history of the nuclear arms race. He has published articles on British and American national security policy in the 20th century; his current work concerns geopolitics and the intellectual origins of containment.

Ruth Alden Doan Ruth Alden Doan, professor; B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Professor Doan primarily teaches courses in early America and social and religious history. She also teaches the survey of U.S. history, seminars on colonial history, the American Revolution, antebellum America, and the American wilderness experience. Her publications include a monograph on Millerism in 19th-century American religious history. Currently, she is working on a study of southern evangelical conversion.


Joe Leedom Joe Leedom, professor; B.A., University of Wyoming; Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara.

Professor Leedom has taught a variety of courses that include the European survey, Roman history, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Britain before 1688, early France, the end of the ancient world, and European social history. Among his publications are articles in the American Journal of Legal History and History, as well as a widely used collection of primary sources on medieval Europe, currently in its third edition, and a sourcebook containing readings in early Western history.

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