Instructor of History
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1991

E-mail: trodgers@usi.edu
Mailing Address:
    Department of History
    University of Southern Indiana
    8600 University Boulevard
    Evansville, IN 47712

Education:

• Ph.D., Indiana University, 1991 (Major: American History; Inside minor: Renaissance-Reformation Europe; Outside minor: Religious Studies; Dissertation: "Northern Political Ideologies in the Civil War Era: West-Central Indiana,1860-1866")
• M.A, Indiana State University, 1979 (Concentrations: 19th Century U.S., Early  Modern Europe; Thesis: "A Reevaluation of Peter Cartwright")
• B.A., Indiana State University, 1974 (Concentrations: 19th Century U.S., East Asia; Outside minor: Religious Studies)

Teaching and Research Interests:

• 19th Century U.S. Political and Social History
• American Civil War
• American Military History   

Selected Publications and Paper Presentations:

• "History, Self-Awareness, and the Core Curriculum," Journal of General Education, forthcoming.
• "Billy Yank and G.I. Joe: An Exploratory Essay on the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Soldier Motivation." The Journal of Military History 69 (January 2005):93-121.
• "Hoosier Women and the Civil War Home Front." Indiana Magazine of History 97 (June 2001):105-128.
•  "Dupes and Demagogues: Caroline Krout's Narrative of Democratic Disloyalty during the Civil War." The Historian 61 (Spring 1999):621-638.
• "Civil War Letters as Historical Sources." Indiana Magazine of History 93 (June 1997):105-110.
• "Republicans and Drifters: Political Affiliation and Union Army Volunteers in West-Central Indiana." Indiana Magazine of History 92 (December 1996):321-345.
• "Liberty, Will, and Violence: Democratic Political Ideology in West-Central Indiana during the Civil War." Indiana Magazine of History 92 (June 1996):133-159.
• Reid, Robert L., and Rodgers, Thomas E. A Good Neighbor: The First Fifty Years at Crane, 1941-1991. Evansville: Historic Indiana Project, University of Southern Indiana, 1991.
• "J. F. D. Lanier and Civil War Politics in Indiana," presentation at the Hanover College Symposium: "The Civil War in Kentuckiana," in Hanover, Indiana, June 1999
• "Hoosier Women during the Civil War," presentation at the National Archives and Records Administration-Great Lakes Region and Chicago Historical Society Symposium: "Chicago and the Midwest in the Civil War," in Chicago, September 1997 
• "Sacrifices on the Altar of Her Country: A Hoosier Mother in the Civil War," presentation at the Indiana Historical Society Annual History Conference, in Greenwood, Indiana, November 1995
• "A Collective Profile of Union Army Volunteers in West-Central Indiana," presentation at the Social Science History Association Convention, in Baltimore, November 1993.