Paul Douglas Newman, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Home: 27 Harding St.
Department of History Johnstown, PA 15905
Johnstown, PA 15904 H. 814-288-4953
pnewman@pitt.edu O. 814-269-2987
www.pitt.edu/~pnewman Fax 814-269-7255
Education
Ph.D. Early National American History, University of Kentucky, 1996
Dissertation: “The Fries Rebellion of 1799: Pennsylvania Germans, the Federalist Party, and American Political Culture”
M.A. American History, University of Kentucky, 1992
B.A. History, York College of Pennsylvania, 1990
Teaching Experience
2007-present, Professor of Early American History, University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
2002-2007, Associate Professor of Early American History, University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown,Who’s Who Among America’s College
Teachers 2004, 2005, 2006 Pi Lambda Theta Educator of the Year, 2003
1996-2002, Assistant Professor of Early American History, University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Phi Eta Sigma Teacher of the Year, 2001
1995-1996, Visiting Instructor of American History, University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown
1993-1994, Instructor of American History, University of Kentucky
1992-1995, Teaching Assistant, American History, University of Kentucky
Courses Offered
U.S. History Survey pre/post 1877 Native Americans and Early America
Colonial America American Labor History
The American Revolution Religion and Early America
The Early Republic, 1781-1815 Religion & Reform in Antebellum America
Antebellum America, 1815-1848 Lewis & Clark & Indians & the Early Republic
American Suffrage Movements Women and American History
The Frontier in Early America American Slavery
Senior Writing Seminar American Immigration, 1830-1930
Fries’s Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. (Finalist for the
Langum Project for Historical Literature Book Prize for Legal History/Legal Biography,
Honorable Mention 2004.)
Editor
Editor, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, July 2005-
present. The quarterly publication of the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
Book Review Editor, Pennsylvania History, January, 2000- June, 2005.
Editor, Directory of Kentucky Historical Organizations. Frankfort: Historical
Confederation of Kentucky and the Kentucky Historical Society,
1992.
Editorial Assistant, with Lance Banning, ed., Liberty and Order: A
Documentary History of the First American Party Struggle, 1790-1800.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Inc., 2003.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Slavery and Taking the Liberty Away!’: Fries’s Rebellion of 1799 and the Language of Popular Opposition,” forthcoming Jean Soderlund and Catherine Parzynski, eds.,in Backcountry Crucibles: The Lehigh Valley from European Settlement to Steel (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2007).
“Did the Shays’ Rebellion Influence the Inspiring and Ratification of the Constitution?” History in Dispute: The American Revolution. (Columbia, SC: Manly Inc., 2003).
“Was There a Conspiracy to Implement a Military Coup d’Etat Against the Central Government in 1783?” History in Dispute: The American Revolution. (Columbia, SC: Manly Inc., 2003).
“The Federalists’ Cold War: The Fries Rebellion, National Security, and the State, 1787-1800,” Pennsylvania History 67 (Winter 2000): 63-104.
“Fries’ Rebellion and American Political Culture, 1798-1800,” Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography 119 (January/April 1995): 37-74.
“Goodwill to All Men... from the King on the throne to the beggar on the
dunghill: William Penn, Roman Catholics, and Religious Toleration,”
Pennsylvania History 61 (October 1994): 457-79.
Encyclopedia and Reference Works
“Charter Oak,” forthcoming in Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak, eds., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (New York: Scribner’s, 2007).
“Colonial Policy, Dutch,” forthcoming in Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak, eds., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (New York: Scribner’s, 2007).
“Customs Service, British,” forthcoming in Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak, eds., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (New York: Scribner’s, 2007).
“Proprietary Government,” forthcoming in Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak, eds., Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference edition (New York: Scribner’s, 2007).
“The Alien and Sedition Acts,” forthcoming in Michael A. Morrison, ed., The Encyclopedia of United States Political History, Volume 2: 1784-1840 (New York: CQ Press, 2007).
“Shays’s Rebellion,” forthcoming in Michael A. Morrison, ed., The Encyclopedia of United States Political History, Volume 2: 1784-1840 (New York: CQ Press, 2007).
“The Whiskey Rebellion,” forthcoming in Michael A. Morrison, ed., The Encyclopedia of United States Political History, Volume 2: 1784-1840 (New York: CQ Press, 2007).
“Fries’s Rebellion,” in Paul Finkelman, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), 82-83.
“The XYZ Affair,” in Paul Finkelman, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), 403-04.
“Camp Followers,” in Paul Finkelman, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), 237-38.
“Lewis and Clark Expedition,” in Paul Finkelman, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), 293-95.
“Presidency, The: John Adams,” in Paul Finkelman, ed. Encyclopedia of the
New American Nation, vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
2005), 16-20.
“John Fries, 1750-1818,” American National Biography. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Works in Progress
“Westsylvania: The Meaning of Independence in the Ohio Country” a book length manuscript on the development of community and political identity in the Upper Ohio River Valley that compares the independence movements of Shawnees and Delawares to the Pennsylvania and Virginia settlers, and the attempts of the British Empire and United States to squelch them both.
“Perspectives of Pennsylvania’s Past: Essays and Documents” a reader on Pennsylvania History designed for undergraduates and secondary schools. Under development with co-editor Jeffrey Davis of Bloomsburg University.
Review Essays
Review Essay, “Two Scholars, Three Centuries, and Some Riots”: of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey, by Brendan McConville. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999; and The Fries Rebellion of 1799 (Doylestown, PA: Doylestown Publishing Company, 1899, reprinted edition, Bedminster, PA: Adams Apple Press, 1999) in Pennsylvania History, (Summer 2001): 383-389.
Review of: Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia, by Andrew M. Schocket. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Forthcoming in the Journal of American History.
Review of: A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America, by Saul Cornell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Forthcoming in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
Review of: The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty, by William Hogeland. New York: Scribner, 2006. Forthcoming in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Review of: New Jersey in the American Revolution, edited by Barbara Mitnick. New Brunswick, NJ: Rivergate Books, 2005. Forthcoming in New Jersey History.
Review of: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic, by Stephen M. Nolt. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002; in Pennsylvania History (Summer 2004): 382-384.
Review of: Shay’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle, by Leonard L. Richards. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002; in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Winter/Spring 2003): 131-133.
Review of: The Political Philosophy of James Madison, by Garret Ward Sheldon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001; in the Journal of Southern History (Winter 2003):151-152.
Review of: Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson, by James H. Read. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000; in Georgia Historical Quarterly 86 (Summer 2002): 292-295.
Review of: Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic, by Stuart Leibiger. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999; in PHMB 124 (Summer 2000): 561-564.
Review of: Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789. Volume 25: March 1, 1788-July 25, 1789. With Supplement, 1774-1787. Edited by Paul H. Smith and Ronald M. Gephart. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1998; in PHMB 123 (January/April 1999): 377-378.
Review of: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph J.
Ellis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; in PMHB 122
(January/April 1998): 137-139.
Review of: Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860, by Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; in The Filson
Club Historical Quarterly 71 (July 1997): 374-376.
Review of: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, Volume 3, 3
November 1810- 4 November 1811, edited by J.C.A. Stagg, Jeanne
Kerr-Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville and
London: University Press of Virginia, 1996; in PMHB 120 (October
1996): 381-383.
Review of: The Whiskey Rebellion: Southwestern Pennsylvania's Frontier People
Test the American Constitution, by Jerry A. Clouse. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission, 1994; in PMHB 119 (October 1995): 415-416.
Review of: Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution. By Roger H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993; in PMHB 119 (October 1995): 423-425.
Review of: The Papers of George Washington. Presidential Series. Vol. 4: September 1789- January 1790, and Revolutionary War Series. Vol.5: June-August, 1776. Edited by Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993; in PMHB 119 (July 1995): 272-275.
Review of: In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion, edited by Robert A. Gross. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993; in PMHB 118 (January/April 1994): 147-149.
Review of: William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand, by John M. Taylor.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991; in The Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society 90 (Autumn 1992): 427-428.
Review of: The Dark Side of Hopkinsville: Stories by Ted Poston, edited by Kathleen A. Hauke. Athens: University of Georgia, 1991; in Filson Club Historical Quarterly 66 (July 1992):486-488.
Review of: A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence, A Revised Edition, by John Shy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; in Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Spring 1992): 102-103.
Conference Presentations and Panelist Service
Roundtable Panel Discussant, “New Horizons in Early Pennsylvania
History: A Roundtable,” at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 21, 2006, Philadelphia,
PA.
“The German-American Idea and Use of the Militia in the Revolution and
Fries’s Rebellion,” for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania
German Society, May 5, 2006, 2006, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Chair and Comment, “Colonial Pennsylvania,” at the Annual Meeting of
the Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 2005 in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“The Fries Rebellion” for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Pennsylvania
German Society, June 11, 2005, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Comment for “Celebration, Disaffection and Conflict in Federalist Era
Pennsylvania,” at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical
Association on October 23, 2004 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Chair and Comment for “Pennsylvania History” at the Phi Alpha Theta
Regional Meeting, Mansfield University, April 12, 2003
Discussant for “Jefferson, Madison, and the Foundations of a Liberal
Republic” a Liberty Fund Colloquium, May 24-27, 2001, Lexington,
Kentucky.
Discussant for “Hamilton and Madison: Convergence and Divergence” a
Liberty Fund Colloquium, November 11-14, 1999, Lexington,
Kentucky.
Chair and Comment for “Fort Ligonier in Perspective” at the eleventh
annual “Jumonville History Seminar,” November 6, 1999,
Jumonville, PA.
Chair and Comment for “Political, Military, and Ideological Conflict in Pennsylvania History,” at “Power in Society: Religion, Culture, and Politics” the “West Virginia University Senator Rush Holt History Conference,” September 1999, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Chair for “The Revolutionary Aftermath of the American Revolution,” at the annual conference of the Society for Historian of the Early American Republic, July 1999, Lexington, Kentucky.
Comment for “Religion and Politics on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier,” at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association on October 24, 1998 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Comment for “Pennsylvania Radicalism in the 1790s,” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic on July 18, 1998, in Harper’s Ferry, WV.
“The Federalist ‘Hercules’: Order and Worlds of Domestic and Diplomatic
Policy, 1787-1800,” at the annual conference of the Society for
Historian of the Early American Republic, July, 1997, State College, Pennsylvania.
“‘Slavery and Taking the Liberty Away’: Popular Republicanism and the
Fries Rebellion,” at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania
Historical Association, October, 1997.
“The Federalists’ Cold War: National Security, Anti-Jacobinism, and the
Fries Rebellion, 1790-1800,” presented to the McNeil Center for
Early American Studies on November 22, 1996, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Comment for “The American Revolution in Pennsylvania,” at the Annual
Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association on October 3,
1996 in State College, Pennsylvania.
“Political Culture on an Ethnic Frontier: The Pennsylvania Germans and the Fries Rebellion of 1799,” presented at the Duquesne History Forum on October 13, 1995, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“Fries Rebellion and the Federalist Schism: Political Interaction in the
Early Republic,” presented before the Annual Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Historical Association on October 29, 1993, in
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
“The Pardon of Fries and the Fracture of the Federalist Party,” presented before the Bluegrass Symposium in March, 1992, in Lexington, Kentucky.
“The Politics of Conscience: The Peculiar Partnership of William Penn and James II, presented before the Bluegrass Symposium in March, 1993, in Lexington, Kentucky.
Secondary Education
2007, Advanced Placement U.S. History Course Audit Reviewer,
Educational Testing Service.
2006, founder of Continuing History Education for the Social Sciences.
C.H.E.S.S. is an approved Act 48 Provider that offers continuing
education opportunities for Pennsylvania secondary education
teachers to earn Act 48 continuing education credits.
2005-present, College Board grader for Advanced Placement U.S. History
examinations, Educational Testing Service.
Public History
2002-present Voluntary consultant for the Johnstown African-American
Heritage Project, coordinated by the Johnstown Area Heritage
Association. I provide thematic, research and presentation advice.
2005 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier. I Offered a Seminar
for High School Teachers entitled “Pueblo Culture: Art, Artifacts and
History” and provided a detailed bibliography, study guide, and
collection of primary sources. October 13, 2005, Ligonier,
Pennsylvania.
2005 York County Heritage Trust: re-interpretation of four historic
buildings in York, Pennsylvania.
2004- Voluntary Consultant for the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Art History Project.
2004-2005 Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Commonwealth Speakers Program--Program–I make public presentations about Civil War photography and artwork representing the American Revolution.
2003-2005 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Advisory Panel for Historical Marker Program.
2003 Voluntary Consultant for Quakertown Alive!, helped them to secure a Pennsylvania Historical Marker from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Delivered the Keynote Address at the Marker dedication ceremony on May 16, 2003 in Quakertown.
2002-2005 Pennsylvania Historical Association Advisory Committee, paid consultant for Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission’s and WITF’s “ExplorePAHistory.com” world wide web project. I review, edit, and comment upon all copy for this on-line history of Pennsylvania. The project seeks to tell the state’s history through its historical road markers.
2002 Voluntary consultant for the Windber Blue Ribbon Committee, coordinated by the Windber Coal Heritage Center. I participated in a campaign to secure the Mine Safety and Health Administration rescue capsule (from the Quecreek Mine rescue) for the museum.
2002 Pennsylvania Labor History Society and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Committee to erect a Pennsylvania Historical Marker in Windber, Pennsylvania, “The Strike of 1922-23.” I presented the PLHS and PHMC plan for a historical marker to the Windber City Council on August 17, and continue to host committee meetings attempting to place this marker.
2002-2003 Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Commonwealth Speakers Program--Program–I make public presentations about Civil War photography and the poster art of World War II.
1999-2001 Voluntary consultant and Researcher for “Native Pennsylvanian Art and Material Culture,” a three part traveling art and material culture exhibit sponsored by the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art and the National Parks Service.
2001-2002 Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Commonwealth Speakers
Program–I made public presentations about Women’s Labor History
and the poster art of World War II.
1998-2000 Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Commonwealth Speakers Program–I made public presentations about William Penn and Religious Toleration and about the Fries Rebellion
1998-1999 Researcher for Fort Necessity National Battlefield, National Parks Service, under contract by Christopher Clarke-Hazlett, Exhibition Developer and Consulting Historian. Conducting research for revised museum interpretation of the National Road in western Pennsylvania
1997-2001 “Local Historian--Consultant” for reconstruction and reinterpretation of Fort Ligonier, French and Indian War British fortification in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, through the “Raising Our Sites Program” funded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
1996-2002 Conducted autumn public lecture and film series, “Hollywood
and American History,” University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown,
Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1993-1994, Kentucky Historical Society, Researcher for museum exhibit “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition: The Kentucky Home Front,” Frankfort, Kentucky.
1991-1992, Kentucky Historical Society, Internship, compiled and produced The 1992 Directory of Kentucky Historical Organizations.
1990, York County Historical Society, Museum Intern, research, wrote, and designed exhibit, “The Susquehannocks: Culture and Conquest,” York, Pennsylvania.
Film
Historical Consultant and featured historian in “Whiskey Rebels” (National
Parks Service, 1997) fifty minute docu-drama on the “Whiskey
Rebellion,”1791-94, in Western Pennsylvania, winner of the 1998 Communicator Award of Distinction for History/Documentary Films.
Historical Consultant for “A Victorian Summer: The South Fork Fishing
and Hunting Club” (National Parks Service, 1998) forty minute docu-
drama about the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club who operated
Lake Conemaugh and the Conemaugh Dam, which burst in 1889
unleashing the disastrous “Johnstown Flood.”
Libraries and Archives
1993-1994, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Thomas D.
Clark Archival Intern
1991-1992, National Archives and Records Administration, Intern for Military Reference Branch, Textual Reference Division, researched and responded to patron inquiries both written and in reference room
1991, University Archives of M.I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Volunteer Technician, identified and cataloged “Papers of Thomas D. Clark”
1990-1991, Special Collections Department of M.I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Student Assistant, researched and responded to reference room and written inquiries
Service to the Profession
Editor, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, since July,
2005
Editorial Board, H-Net listserv, H-Pennsylvania, 2004-present
Book Review Editor for Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic
Studies, January, 2000-June 2005
Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA), Publications Committee, since
1997
Program Committee for PHA Annual Meeting, 2000, 2001, 2005
Local Arrangements Chair for PHA Annual Meeting, 2001, 2005, 2011
Peer Referee for The Pennsylvania State University Press
Peer Referee for Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Peer Referee for The Historian
Peer Referee for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Peer Referee for Film & History
Textbook Reviewer for Gibbs Smith, Longman, Bedford St. Martins
Other Research
1994-1995, University of Kentucky Department of History, Research
Assistant for Lance Banning, ed. Liberty and Order: A Documentary
History of the First American Party Struggle (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
Inc., 2003).
1991-1993, University Press of Kentucky, research assistant, Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, A New History of Kentucky (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997).
Professional Affiliations
Continuing History Education for the Social Sciences
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Omuhundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pennsylvania Historical Association
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Honors and Awards
Who’s Who Among American College Professors, 2004, 2005, 2006
NEH Fellowship, “Problem of Governance in the Early Republic,” 2005
Honorable Mention, Langum Project for Historical Literature 2004, Legal
History/Legal Biography for Fries’s Rebellion
Pi Lambda Theta UPJ Educator of the Year, 2003
Phi Eta Sigma UPJ Teacher of the Year, 2001
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, 2001
Faculty Scholarship Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 1999
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellow, 1995
Hallam Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, 1994
Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History, Tau Chapter,
1992
Magna Cum Laude graduate York College of Pennsylvania, 1990
Alpha Chi National Honor Society, 1989
Who’s Who Among American College Students, 1989-1990
Morrison Award for Excellence in the Study of History, York College 1989