Kendrick A. Clements

Professor of History
Associate Faculty, School of the Environment

Address

Department of History
219 Gambrell Hall
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-2679
e-mail: kclements@sc.edu

Education

B.A. , Williams College, 1960
M.A., History, University of California at Berkeley, 1961
Ph.D., History, University of California at Berkeley, 1970

Teaching Fields

American diplomatic history (sample syllabi for the first and second semester of the undergraduate  course, and for the first and second semester of the graduate reading course are at these links)

U.S. history since 1945 (a sample syllabus is available at this link)

Senior seminar (a sample syllabus is available at this link)

Introduction to American history (a sample syllabus and copies of lecture outlines are available at these links)

Canadian history (a sample syllabus is available at this link)

Research Fields

American diplomatic history
American history, 1900-1930
Environmental history

Books

Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000)

The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992; 2nd paperback ed., 1994)

Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987; revised paperback ed. published by Ivan R. Dee, Fall 1999)

William Jennings Bryan, Missionary Isolationist(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982)

Editor, James F. Byrnes and the Origins of the Cold War (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1982)

Selected Articles

"Woodrow Wilson and Administrative Reform," Presidential Studies Quarterly28 (Spring 1998):320-36

"Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan," Nebraska History 77 (Fall/Winter 1996):167-76

"Herbert Hoover and Conservation, 1921-1933," American Historical Review 89 (Feb. 1984):67-88

"Herbert Hoover and the Fish," Journal of Psychohistory 10 (Winter 1983):333-48

"Woodrow Wilson's Mexican Policy, 1913-1915," Diplomatic History 4 (Spring 1980):113-36

"Engineers and Conservationists in the Progressive Era," California History 58 (Winter 1979-80):282-303 (Runner-up for Forest History Society's "Best Article of the Year" award, 1980)

"Politics and the Park: San Francisco's Fight for Hetch Hetchy, 1908-1913," Pacific Historical Review 48 (May 1979):185-215 (runner-up for Forest History Society's "Best Article of the Year" award, 1979; runner-up for "Best Article of the Year" in Pacific Historical Review)

Current Projects

Herbert Hoover: Secretary of Commerce