Professor of History, University of Louisville
Adjunct Professor of Law, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Louisville, Kentucky
Thomas C. Mackey received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College in 1978 and in 1984 earned his Ph.D. in United States Legal and Constitutional History from Rice University. In 1984-85, he held the Samuel I. Golieb Post-Doctoral Fellowship in United States Legal History at the New York University School of Law. He has taught at Michigan State University, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Kansas State University, and in 1991 joined the University of Louisville. Currently, he is a Professor of History as well as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. The Ohio State University Press published his third book, Pursuing Johns, in 2005. He is at work on To Think Anew, Act Anew: Public Policy and Judicial Voices of the Civil War Era to be published by the University of Tennessee Press.
Contact Information:
Telephone: (502) 852-3892
Fax: (502) 852-0770
Mailing Address:
Dr. Thomas C. Mackey
History Department
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Willing to Travel? Yes
Fee for Services? No
Lectures Offered:
Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of the Union, 1859-1861
Constitutional and Legal Issues of the Abraham Lincoln Administration
People v. Lemmon (1860): A Second Dred Scott?
The Constitutional Amendments of the United States Civil War
The Election of 1864
Modernizing America: The Non-Military Congressional Legislation of the Civil War Era
Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation: Growth and Timing
Writing for Scholarly Publications
Willing to write on any of the topics offered as lectures for general audiences or school groups from high school level through professional school. Is also willing to write on any topic in the era in the Civil War and Reconstruction that deals with his specialty in Constitutional and Legal History, such as:
- Abraham Lincoln's Constitutional Vision in Crisis Times
- The Significance of the Civil War Era Constitutional Amendments
- Reconstruction: Shortcomings and Successes
Other Programs Offered:
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