Walter Nugent
Tackes Professor Emeritus of History
Profile
A.B., St. Benedict's College, 1954 (History)
M.A., Georgetown University, 1956 (European History)
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1961 (American History)
Western History Association, president, 2005-2006
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, president, 2000-2002
Israel Fulbright program, Board of Directors, 1985-89
Warsaw University, Medal of Merit, 1982
NEH summer seminars, director, 1979, 1984, 1986
Huntington Library fellow, 1979, 1985
Guggenheim fellow, 1964-65
Teaching Interests
American West, US Gilded Age/Progressive Era, comparative immigration
Recent Publications
""The American Habit of Empire: the Cases of Polk and Bush." Western Historical Quarterly (Jan. 2007)
"The Religious Demography of an Oasis Culture." In Shipps and Silk, Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West (2004)
Making Our Way: A Family History ... (2003)
Into the West: the Story of Its People (1999)
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 (1992, 1995)
Contact
Email: wnugent@nd.edu