Dr. Debra A. Reid dareid@eiu.edu Research Interests/Teaching Fields Collections management, material culture, and 19th and 20th century U. S. social and political history. Courses (Past and Present) HIS 2010-G: History of the United States to 1877 HIS 2020-G: History of the United States from 1877 HIS 2090-G: History of the United States to 1877 (Honors) HIS 2091-G: History of the United States from 1877 (Honors) HIS 3600: The U.S. Constitution and the Nation HIS 3690: The U.S. Constitution and the Nation (Honors) HIS 3900: Women in American History HIS 4910: The Foundation of the American Constitutional and Political System HIS 4930: Public History: Meaning and Method HIS 5090: Care and Management of Historical Artifacts HIS 5330: Material Life in America, 1600-Present

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Dr. Reid focuses on rural and minority studies. Her dissertation, “Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, Agrarian Reform, and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service,” received the Agricultural History Society's Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award (2001). The expanded manuscript was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2007. She has a chapter on progressive-era African American rural reformers in The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America (Cornell University Press, 2001), a chapter on interpreting gender in Interpreting Historic House Museums (AltaMira Press, 2002) and articles on interpreting African American rural history in publications of the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM). Additional articles and book reviews appear in  Agricultural History , Rural History , and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly . Her current projects include a book manuscript on "The Political Meanings of African American Farm and Property Ownership," researching material culture changes among Anabaptists in the rural Midwest from the 1810s to the present, and analyzing historic domestic interior re-interpretation.