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Lex Renda, Associate Professor

Office: Holton 345
Phone: (414) 229-5211
E-mail: renlex@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~renlex

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1991

Current Research Interests:
The Black suffrage debate in 19th-century America
Electoral and social roots of Southern secessionism
Electoral behavior in Congressional contests, 1790 to present
Abolition of Debtors' prison in the United States

Current Teaching Interests:
19th-century American political history
Civil War and Reconstruction
Statistical methods

Recent Publications:
"The End of Midterm Decline?: Congressional Elections in Historical Perspective," Social Science History 27 (2003): 139-64.

"'A White Man's State in New England': Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil War Connecticut," in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds., The North's Civil War: The Yankee Homefront and the Union War Effort, (New York, 2002), 243-79.

"Slavery, Law, Liquor, and Politics: The Case of Wynehamer v. New York," 80 Mid-America (Winter, 1998), 35-53.

"The Dysfunctional Party: Collapse of the New Jersey Whigs, 1849-1853," New Jersey History 116 (Spring/Summer, 1998), 3-57.

Running on the Record: Civil War Era Politics in New Hampshire (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1997).

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