Dr. Frederic Crawford

CONTACT:
E-mail: fcrawfor@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2634
Office Location: Peck Hall Room 272
MTSU Box 142
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

TEACHING FIELDS:
Ancient history, Early Modern Europe, Reformation, Enlightenment, French Revolution and Napoleon.

COURSES:
Western Civ I and II; Classical History - the Best of Ancient Greece and Rome; The Reformation; Europe; Absolutism and Enlightenment - Kings and Philosophers; French Revolution and Napoleon.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Record of the Human Race; Enlightenment and Revolution both as historical periods and as ongoing human concerns and persons pertinent to those such as Count Mirabeau, Layayette, Olympe De Gouges and Solzhenitsyn.

OUTSIDE INTERESTS/PUBLIC SERVICE:
Great American Singalong, Saint Marks UMC Choir, bass 2, gardening, Assistant Scoutmaster, RET, four children, seven grandchildren and counting.

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS:
Many minor articles and reviews and reports over forty years, none memorable. For creative works, see above.

WORK IN PROGRESS:
"Why the Enlightenment was not that 'Enlightened' and how we can be more Enlightened."

"Why the Revolution was not that Revolutionary and misconceptions of those envoking its examples."

"Misunderstandings in and of the "Declaraion of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen."

"Tribute to Sozhenitsyn - What we should remember."

"History of the MTSU History Department - Remembrances." (not to be published but to be left to my grandchildren and greatgrands.

EDUCATION:
M.A., History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1958.
Ph. D., History, University of Kentucky, 1969.