Kendrick A. Clements
Distinguished Professor
of History, Emeritus
Address
Department
of History
208 Gambrell
Hall
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Tel: (803)
777-2679
Fax: (803) 777-4494
e-mail: clements@gwm.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
- U.S. history since 1945
- Senior seminar
- Introduction to American history
- Canadian history
- History 413
Research Fields
- American diplomatic history
- American history, 1900-1930
- Environmental history
Books
- Co,author, with Eric A. Cheezum, Woodrow Wilson, in the
American Presidents Reference Series (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003)
- 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
- "The New Era and
the New Woman: Lou Henry Hoover and 'Feminism's Awkward Age',"Pacific Historical Review 73
(August 2004):425-61
- "Woodrow Wilson
and World War I,"Presidential Studies
Quarterly 34 (March 2004):62-82
- "Agent of Change: Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce," in
Timothy Walch, ed., Uncommon Americans: The Lives of Herbert and
Lou Henry Hoover (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003):93-105
- "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
LECTURE OUTLINES FOR FALL 2004 SEMESTER:
Anthony
Chief Joseph
Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ford & Lindbergh
Franklin Roosevelt
Friedan & Steinem
Giannini
Goldwater
Hampton
Kelley
Longstreet
Lyndon Johnson
McCarthy
McNamara
Nixon
Oppenheimer
Palmer
Powderly & Gompers
Powell
Teddy Roosevelt
Walter White
Warren
Washington & DuBois
Woodrow Wilson