My areas of specialization are United States late-19th and early-20th century social and cultural history with a specific focus on militias and national guards; Minnesota during the Civil War; and women writers on the western frontier. I teach a wide vareity of courses in U.S. history, among them the introductory survey U.S. History Part I and II, U.S. Military History, American Youth Culture, Nineteenth Century Social History, and American Expansion (nineteenth century). I also regularly teach the senior seminar: a writing workshop for senior students who are working on their capstone projects.
Some of my recent publications include:
Manhood, Citizenship and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870 - 1917. The Ohio State University Press, 2007. See http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book Pages/Hannah Manhood.html"Soldiers under the Skin: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in the Illinois National Guard, 1870-1916," American Nineteenth Century History, American Nineteenth Century History, 8 : 3 (September 2007), 293 - 323. See http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=14664658&volume=8&issue=3&spage=293
"From the Dance Floor to the Rifle Range: The Evolution of Manliness in the Illinois National Guard," the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2007. See http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/6.2/hannah.html
"The Gilded Age at Camp Lincoln," Chicago History , Spring 2006.
" 'Fighting Dollars' War Bonds: The Northland and the Nation." Catalog to accompany the exhibit, "Fighting Dollars", October 2005-March 2007, Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Superior, Wisconsin. October, 2005.
I can be reached by phone at (218) 310-2476, or by email ehannah@d.umn.edu.
My office is 265 A.B. Anderson Hall.