Perry K. Blatz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Public HistoryMcAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
History
College Hall 616
Phone: 412.396.6471
blatz@duq.edu
Education:
Ph.D., History, Princeton University, 1987M.A., History, Princeton University, 1978
B.A., History, Claremont-McKenna College, 1974
"Boundaries of Responsibility: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania Riot Damage Law, 1834-1880," Pennsylvania History 78 (Fall 2011): 393-425.
"Pittsburgh: The Fiery Scape Goat for the Country," Western Pennsylvania History (Fall 2011): 47-61.
Eckley Miners' Village (Stackpole Books, 2003).
Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers (co-author and associate editor) (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999).
Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925 (State University of New York Press, 1994).
"Craftsmanship and Flexibility in Oral History: A Pluralistic Approach to Methodology and Theory," Public Historian 12 (Fall 1990): 7-22.
Undergraduate: United States history survey (both halves); Early Republic: U.S. 1787-1840; Civil War and Reconstruction; Booms, Busts, and Bailouts (U.S. Economic History); Pennsylvania and the American Nation.
Graduate: Commemoration and Preservation in American History; Sectionalism, U.S. 1789-1868; Work and Enterprise in American HIstory.