Eric H Walther
Associate Professor (United States, South)
531 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3101
ewalther@uh.edu

Dr. Walther is a scholar of U.S. history. His specialty is the Antebellum South and the coming of the Civil War. Walther received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He has taught at the University of Houston since 1991. He has been a consultant for the Dallas Morning News and for the documentary "Sacrifices of Hate." Professor Walther is currently Director of Graduate Studies of the History Department.

Teaching:
Professor Walther teaches undergraduate courses that most often include the Survey of the United States to 1877, The Old South, and Research in Texas Slavery. He frequently offers graduate colloquia and seminars on various aspects of the 19th century United States.

Research:
Dr. Walther is the author of two books, numerous articles and book reviews. Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s, won a Choice Magazine book award in 2004. He is currently completing work on William Lowndes Yancey, to be published by the University of North Carolina Press in the spring of 2006.

Selected Publications:
Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s (Scholarly Resources, 2003).

"Slavery, Race, and Culture as Causes of the Civil War," in Steven Woodworth, ed., The American civil War: A Handbook of Research and Literature (Greenwood Press, 1996).

"The Fire-Eaters and the Riddle of Confederate Nationalism," in Southern Studies, n.s., vol.3 (Spring, 1992 [published in 1994]), 66-77.

The Fire-Eaters (Louisiana State University Press, 1992).

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