Courses Offered
European and International:
Modern Britain
Mexico
Europe, 1914-1945
Europe, 1945-the present
History of Religion/Religious Studies:
Judaism Christianity, and Islam
Origins of Christianity
The Bible: Archaeology and History
Education & Training
- B.A. California State University, Fresno
- M.A. San Diego State University
- Further Graduate Study: University of Portland
- Ph.D. (1981) University of Oregon
Representative Publications
Books:
Neutrality and Navicerts: Britain, the United States and Economic Warfare, 1939-40. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994
William Mulholland: A Forgotten Forefather. Holt-Atherton Center for Western Historical Studies, University of the Pacific, 1976
Edited Works:
Using Visual Evidence, with Richard Howells, Open University/McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Film & History, special issues on World War II, vol. 27, nos. 1-4 (1997).
Arctic Twilight: Old Finnish Tales, trans. by Allen M. Pitkänen. Portland: Finnish-American Literary Heritage Foundation, 1982
Articles and book chapters:
“Images and Imaginations: Mid-Nineteenth Century Travelers in Cuba,” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (December 2011), 121-28.
“An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini in Michael Paris, ed., Re-Picturing the War: Representations of the Second World War in Film and Television since 1989 (Palgrave, 2008), 39-54.
"Finlandization: A Retrospective," in T. Michael Ruddy, ed. Charting an Independent Course: Finland's Place in the Cold War and in U.S. Foreign Policy (Regina Books: 1998), pp. 197-213.
"The British Navy and U.S. Trade, 1939-40," The Historian 53 (Summer 1991):743-64.
"Joseph Wood Hill: 'Civilian Soldier' in Education and Politics," Oregon Historical Quarterly 90 (Spring 1989):5-38.
"Finlandization: An Ahistorical Analogy," Washington State Research Studies 51 (March 1983):1-11.
"Church Wealth in Nineteenth Century Mexico: A Review of Literature," Catholic Historical Review 65 (October 1979):600-09.
"Maya Hieroglyphics: More Challenging than Egyptian," University of Portland Review 30 (Fall 1978):3-13.