K Frydl


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Education

B.A., University of California, Davis
M.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago

I will be on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year to research and write my next book on the federal government’s prosecution of the modern drug war.”

Selected Publications

Books

The GI Bill, (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Articles

Kidnapping and US State Development, Studies in American Political Development, Spring 2006.

"Trust to the Public: Academic Freedom in the Multiversity" in Academic Freedom after September 11, Beshara Doumani, ed. New York: Zone Books, 2006.

Research and Teaching Interests

My field is the US since 1607, with special emphasis on the 20th century. Thus far my research has focused on political history and, within that subfield, I have maintained a particular interest in institutions. I lecture survey courses on recent US history, political history from the Gilded Age, and (with my colleague Peter Zinoman) on the Vietnam War. My seminars range chronologically and topically: for graduate students, I teach mainly on the state, and for undergraduates, I pick a decade (the 1960s, for example) or a theme (social policy) and assign a diverse set of readings around that. I am currently finishing my book on the World War II GI Bill.

Selected Course Syllabi

History 124B: The United States from World War II to the Vietnam Era

History 7B: Introduction to the History of the United States: From the Civil War to the Present