Donald H. Parkerson

Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Office: Brewster A-323

Phone: 252-328-6058

Don Parkerson is a social historian interested in the lives of the common folk in the past. He is Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Teaching. He is the author of The Agricultural Transition in New York State (Iowa State University Press, 1995) and with Jo Ann Parkerson The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside (Mellen Press, 1998) and Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching (Routledge/Falmer Press, 2001) and The American Teacher (Routledge Press, 2008) and Assessment, Bureaucracy and Consolidation: The Issues Facing Schools Today (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and The Struggle for Public Education: Ten Themes in American Educational History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

His articles have appeared in Historical Methods, Social Science History and Journal of Family History. He was the Assistant Director of the Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has served on the Board of Editors for Social Science History and was the Program Chair for their 2001 meetings in Chicago. He teaches Introduction to American History 1865-Present, the Senior Seminar in History, Quantitative Methods for Historians, the Graduate Seminar Jefferson, Jackson and the Atlantic World and American Business History.

Selected Publications:

The Struggle for Public Education: Ten Themes in American Educational History (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson), Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

The American Teacher (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). Routledge Press, 2008.

Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). Rowman & Littlefield. 2015.

Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). Routledge/Falmer, 2001.

The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). Mellen, 1998.

The Agricultural Transition of New York State: Markets, Migration, and Mobility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Iowa State University Press, 1995.

“American Education through Literature, 1820-1870” (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). In Education and American Literature, ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.

“American Education” (co-author Jo Ann Parkerson). In Multiple Approaches to American Society, ed. By Yoneyuki Sugita. University Education Press, 2005.

Courses Offered:

HIST 1051: American History Since 1877
HIST 2012: American Business History
HIST 4000: Senior Seminar in History
HIST 5950/51: Quantitative Methods for Historians
HIST 6030: Seminar Jefferson, Jackson and the Atlantic World