Edward O.Frantz

Assistant History Professor
Email: efrantz@uindy.edu
Phone: 788-4906

Ph. D., 2002, University of Wisconsin

Areas of Specialty:

  • Presidential and Political History
  • African American History
  • History of Indiana and the Midwest
  • American History, 1865-1945

Upper Division Courses:

  • Civil Rights Movement
  • History of African Americans, 1619-1910
  • History of Indiana and the Midwest
  • U.S. in Transition, 1877-1917
  • U.S. in War and Depression, 1917-1945
  • Capstone Historiography course

Professional Activities:
Professor Frantz is working on Republicans Redefined: Presidential Tours of the South, 1877-1933,to be published by the University Press of Florida. He is the author of A March of Triumph? Benjamin Harrison's Southern Tour and the Limits of Racial and Regional Reconciliation in Indiana Magazine of History 100 (December 2004) www.historycooperative.org/journals. A member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, he has published book reviews and presented papers in a number of different venues.