Education
MA Columbia University, 1965
PhD Columbia University, 1971
Research Interests
Professor Barney’s research focuses on the nineteenth-century U.S., especially the antebellum South. He is currently researching a book on the cultural and economic politics of secession.
Some Notable Publications
- The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion (Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877 (Prentice Hall, Inc., 1990)
- Passage of the Republic: An Interdisciplinary History of Nineteenth Century America (D.C. Heath, 1987)
- The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (Princeton University Press, 1974)
- Flawed Victory: New Perspective on the Civil War (Rowman & Littlefield, 1975)
- The Road to Secession: A New Perspective on the Old South (Praeger, 1972)
Graduate Students
- Claire Roth (Co-advised with W. Fitzhugh Brundage)
- Laurie Medford
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
For current information about course offerings, click here.
- HIST 127—United States History to 1865
- HIST 128—United States History Since 1865
- HIST 565—Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877
- HIST 834—The Middle Period, 1815–1860
- HIST 840—Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860–1876