Department of History - Michigan State University

Thomas Summerhill

Office: 202 Berkey Hall

Phone: (517) 355-6673

Research Keywords

19th Century America, Civil War & Reconstruction, Political and Social, Rural, Popular/Grassroots Political Movements, Labor

Thomas Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Thomas Summerhill. "." “Farming on Shares: Landlords, Tenants, and the Rise of the Hops and Dairy Economies in Central New York" New York History, Vol. 76.April (1995): 125-152.

Thomas Summerhill, "." In "The US as a Postcolonial State, 1789-1865", edited by Thomas Summerhill and James C. Scott. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004: 55-86.

Thomas Summerhill, ""Where Front and Home Front Met: The Significance of 'Border' Areas in the Civil War"," Roundtable Discussion: New Directions in Civil War History, Great Lakes History Conference. Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 29, 2005.
Thomas Summerhill, ""Central New York Farmers, Protest, and the Making of Modern America"," , Book Signing, Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association. Cooperstown, New York, July 22, 2005.
Thomas Summerhill, ""Anti-Abolitionist Rioting and the Secession Crisis in Syracuse"," , Conference on New York History, New York State Historical Association. Cooperstown, New York, June 8, 2007.
Thomas Summerhill, ""Farming the Empire State in the 19th Century: Reflections on the Past and Ideas for the Future"," , The Farmers’ Museum’s Evening Lecture Series, Rural New York in Transition. Cooperstown, New York, November 3, 2006.
Thomas Summerhill, ""Tom Summerhill on Agrarianism in 19th Century New York"," Interviewed by Gerald Zahavi, host., "Talking History", WRPI Radio, 91.5 FM. Troy, New York, .

Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.