David W Noble

Contact Me

noble015@umn.edu

Affiliations

• American Studies
• History

Links

• http://www.cla.umn.edu/american/faculty/noble.html

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, none.
• M.A.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, none.
• B.A.: Princeton University, none.

Specialties

• American studies
• dominant male Anglo-Protestant culture
• history
• intellectual history
• literature and language
• loss of cultural hegemony since World War Two

Courses Taught

• AmSt 1001W - American Popular Arts and Public Life, 1900-1940
• AmSt 8201 - Historical Foundations of American Studies

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of American Studies, Univeristy of Minnesota: 1980
• Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota: 1988 - 1991
• Co-Chair, National American Studies Association Program Committee: 1998

Publications

• Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. Noble, David, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• Historians Against History. Noble, David, 1965.
• The Education Revolution American Literature. Noble, David, 1995.
• Revocation of the Anglo-Protestant Monoploy: Aesthetic Authroity and the American Landscape. Noble, David, 1996.
• Democracy or Capitalism: Charles Beard, Richard Hofstadter and the Paradigmatic Revolution in American Historical Writing, 1941-1955.. Noble, David, 1988.

Awards

• Horace T. Morse-Amoco Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Minnesota, 1968
• College of Science, Literature and the Arts Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Minnesota, 1959
• College of Liberal Arts Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Minnesota, 1980
• Research Award, University of Minnesota Scholar of the College, 1986
• Alumni Association Teachers Hall of Fame, University of Minnesota, 1994
• University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1999