Dr. Matthew Schoenbachler
Office: 109A Willingham Hall
Email: mschoenbachler@una.edu
Phone: (256) 765-4547
Profile
Matt Schoenbachler is a historian of the early American Republic. His publications include Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy (2009), Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America (2019) (co-author), and The Norton Mix: American History (2013) (co-author). Dr. Schoenbachler is currently working on a number of projects, including a history of the Andrew Jackson’s Bank War, the trans-Appalachian origins of the Jacksonian movement, and the use of cannabis in antebellum America.
Education
Ph.D., History, Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Kentucky (1996)
M.A., History, Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Kentucky (1992)
B.S., History and Commercial Music, Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ (1989)
Recent Courses Taught
HI 201/202 United States History to/since 1877
HI 201/202 Honors United States History to/since 1877
HI 390 History of Rock Music
HI 451/551 The American Revolution
HI 452/552 History of the Early Republic
HI 453/553 Civil War and Reconstruction
HI 485/585 Film and American History
HI 611 American Revolution Seminar
HI 612 Jacksonian America Seminar
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America, with Lawrence Nelson (Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Kansas Press, 2019)
The Norton Mix: American History, with Karen Dunn-Haley, Stephen K. Davis, and Wendy Wall (W.W. Norton, 2013)
Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy. (Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Kentucky press, 2009; paperback, 2011)
ARTICLES
“Republicanism in the Age of Democratic Revolution: The Democratic Societies of the 1790s,” Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Summer 1998): 237-261.