Dr. Robert Hunt

CONTACT:
E-mail: rehunt@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-5519
Office Location: Peck Hall Room 276
MTSU Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

TEACHING FIELDS:

Civil War and Reconstruction; U.S. South; U.S. military history

COURSES:

• History 4040 Civil War and Reconstruction
• History 4150 History of the American South
• History 3120 U.S. Military History
• History 3170 History of the American South in Film
• History 3180 Modern War in Film
• History 6140 Seminar: The Old South

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Attitudes of Union veterans toward emancipation; attitudes of southerners toward capitalism and capitalist culture.

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS:

Introduction for Marcus B. Toney, Privations of a Private (University of Alabama Press, 2005).

Historical background research for the outdoor museum at Ft. Negley in Nashville and the documentary film "Battle for Nashville."

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Web archive: Attitudes of Veterans of the Union Army of the Cumberland towards the Emancipation Issue.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~tullproj

EDUCATION:

B.A. University of Northern Colorado 1974
M.A. University of Wyoming 1979
Ph.D. University of Missouri 1988