Humanities and Arts
Contact Information
Office:
Salisbury Laboratories, 408C
Phone: +1-508-831-5145
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
baller@wpi.edu
William A. Baller
- Assistant Teaching Professor of History
- Humanities & Arts
- Affiliated with:
- Administrator of History Research Seminars
Education
- B.A., Marquette University, 1971
- M.A., Providence College, 1975
- M.S., Columbia University, 1976
- M.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1982
- Ph.D., Clark University, 1994
Featured Publications
- Farm Families and the American Revolution, Journal of Family History 36 (January 2006): 28-44.
- "Revolutionary New England" and "Pirates, Privateer, and Smuggling," Bert Feintuch and David Watters, eds. Encyclopedia of New England Culture, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005)
- "Jared Sparks," Wes Mott, ed. The American Renaissance in New England (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2001): 373-8.
- Revolutionary New England and Pirates, Privateers, and Smuggling, Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, eds, Encyclopedia of New England Culture, (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 1999).
- Review of L. Edward Purcell's Who Was Who in the American Revolution, in Journal of American History 82 (March 1996): 1674-5.
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Courses
- GOV 1301. U.S. GOVERNMENT
- HI 1321. INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN SOCIAL HISTORY
- HI 1332. INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
- HI 1341. INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HISTORY
- HI 2321. EUROPE FROM THE OLD REGIME TO WORLD WAR I
- HI 2322. EUROPE SINCE WORLD WAR I
- HI 2324. INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE IN BRITISH HISTORY
- HU 3900. INQUIRY SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES AND ARTS
