Steven Mintz
John and Rebecca Moores Professor (United States, Family)
548 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3109
smintz@uh.edu
Steven Mintz is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston. He is President-Elect of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, an international consortium of scholars who use new technologies to advance teaching and research, and National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, a group of leading social scientists and practitioners which brings the latest research and clinical expertise on families and children to the public, the media, and policy makers.
He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Society for History Education, and Film & History. He chairs the nominating committee of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and serves on the Organization of American Historians’ Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Precollegiate Teaching Award committee. In addition, he directs two U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grants, providing professional development to Texas teachers.
He is co-creator of Digital History, which has been chosen as one of the Top 5 web resources in U.S. history by Best of History Web Sites. Named to the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment list of exemplary resources in the humanities, Digital History attracts 85,000 users a week.
He has generated more than $7 million in external funding, including a successful $2.6 million NEH Challenge Grant in African American Studies and a new $200,000 NEH Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Grant to support an online project entitled "My History: Students and Teachers as Historians."
Teaching:
A winner of both the university and college teaching excellence awards, Professor Mintz was the 2004 recipient of the University Continuing Education Association Region South Outstanding Educator Award. Region South encompasses all member institutions in the Southern Association region, including member institutions in Mexico and the Caribbean.
For seven summers, he team-taught seminars for high school teachers and college faculty at Yale University and Columbia University on slavery and film history.
Research:
An authority on the history of families and children, and a specialist in the uses of new technologies in history teaching and research, he has written extensively on the history of reform, slavery, ethnicity, film, and private life.
His twelve books include the standard history of the American family,
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (co-authored with Susan Kellogg); and a major interpretation of antebellum reform,
Moralists & Modernizers: America’s Pre-Civil War Reformers.
His most recent book,
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard), received the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians 2004 Merle Curti Award for the best book in social history; and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 2004.
Selected Publications:
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Recipient of the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Most Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in American Social History in 2004.
America and its Peoples With James Kirby Martin, Randy Roberts, Linda McMurry, and James H. Jones. 5th edition, Pearson Longman.
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Colonization through the Civil War With David Brion Davis.
(Oxford University Press, 1998).
A main selection of the History Book Club and an alternate selection of the Book of the Month Club.
Moralists & Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life With Susan Kellogg
(Free Press, 1988)
A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture
(New York University Press, 1983).
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