Curriculum Vitae (2024)
ALEXANDER O. BOULTON
302 West Lanvale Street
Baltimore, Maryland
21217: 410-336-8105
aoboulton@hotmail.com
Blog: https://alexanderboulton.com/
Youtube Channel: “Sandy’s History”
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., History, College of William and Mary, 1991. (Dissertation: “The Architecture of Slavery: Art, Language, and Society in Early Virginia,” (Dissertation Committee: Eugene Genovese, Chandos Brown, Cary Carson, Michael McGiffert, Robert Gross)
M.A., American Studies, College of William and Mary, 1993. (Thesis: “Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect of an Age”)
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, 1973
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Cultural/Intellectual History, Early American and Ancient History, Architectural History, African American History
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor of History (retired): Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland: taught courses in U.S. History, Western Civilization, World History, African American History, American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, History of the Family, History of Ideas, Making of the U.S. Constitution, Ancient Greece, The Peloponnesian War, Historiography, Material Culture (1994-2021).
BOOKS:
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect, (New York, Rizzoli Press, 1993).
Democracy and Empire, the Athenian Invasion of Sicily, 415-413 BCE, (Lanham, Md., Hamilton Books, 2021).
ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS:
“The Declaration of Independence and the Language of Slavery,” Journal of the Early Republic, Spring 2024.
“The American Paradox: Jeffersonian Equality and Racial Science,” American Quarterly, September 1995.
“The Monticello Mystery – – Case Continued,” Essay-Review of Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.(editor), The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, an American Travesty, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, Charlottesville, 2001; Byron W. Woodson, Sr., A President in the Family, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 2001; and, Lucia Stanton, Free Some Day, The African American Families of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000; in William and Mary Quarterly (October, 2001).
“Monticello, the Usonian House, and Levittown: The Making of the Modern American Home,” Historically Speaking, the Newsletter of the Historical Society, (February 2002).
“Conversations on Intersectionality” presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 2015.
“The Lynching of Howard Cooper,” Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol 196, #3 (Fall, 2011)
“Family, Gender and Political Ideology in the First Party System,” Lebanon Valley College Conference on American Political History, June 2018;
“Shakespeare’s Floating World.” Comparative Drama Conference paper, March 2016; “Race and the American Founding,” Cabrini College Area Studies Program on “Peoples of the Atlantic,” Cabrini College, Radnor, Pennsylvania, May 1996.
“Monticello and the Romantic Tradition,” Winterthur Conference on “The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life,” Winterthur, Delaware, October 28/29, 1992.
“New York State Slave Sites,” Vernacular Architectural Forum, annual meeting, Kingston, New York, 1986. (Abstracted in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III).
“Letter to an Angry Parent,” Perspectives on History, September 2013.
“No Trump Fingerprints Doesn’t Mean No Crime,” Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, March 2019
“Doubling Down on Donald Trump,” Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, January 2019;
“The New World Disorder,” Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, January 20, 2017;
“Stevenson University Students React to Trump’s Win,” Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, November 30, 2016;
“Mother’s House,” American Heritage, [postmodern architecture] July/August 1996.
“The Padre’s House,” [Spanish Colonial Hacienda] American Heritage, February/March 1994.
“The Buy of the Century,” [Levittown, Long Island] American Heritage, July/August 1993. (Reprinted in Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, Volume One, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998; Annual Editions: American History, Volume II, Dushkin Publishing Group, Spring, 1995; and, Richard Marback, Patrick Bruch, Jill Eicher (editors), Cities, Cultures, Conversations: Readings for Writers, Allyn and Bacon, 1997.)
“Fortress America,” [Richardsonian Romanesque Architecture], American Heritage, December 1992.
“The House of Many Layers,” [Colonial Revival Architecture], American Heritage, May/June 1992.
“The Parson’s Hearth,” [New England colonial architecture] American Heritage, Vol 42, #7, November 1991.
“The Pride of the Prairie,” [The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright], American Heritage, Vol 42, #4, July/August 1991.
“From the Greek,” [Greek Revival Architecture], American Heritage, Vol 41, #7, November 1990.
“The Tropical Twenties” [Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture], American Heritage, Vol 41, #4, May-June 1990.
“The Gothic Awakening,” [Gothic Revival Architecture], American Heritage, Vol 40, #7, November 1989. (reprinted as “Palm Beach’s Signature Style,” in Eastern Review, Magazine of Eastern Airlines, October 1990).
“Behind the Federal Facade,” [Harrison Gray Otis and the Federal Style], American Heritage, Vol 40, #4, May-June 1989 (reprinted as “Resonant Residences” in Eastern Review, Magazine of Eastern Airlines, 1989).
“American House Styles: The Best of Georgian” American Heritage, Vol 40, #1, February 1989.
“The Beauty of Bricks,” Historic Preservation, Vol 40, #4, July-August 1988.
Research Report on the “Slaves’ Quarters” at Morven, Princeton, New Jersey (with Judy Ridner), for the State of New Jersey, 1988.
“Good Fences” American Heritage, Vol 38 #2, February/March 1987.
“Maryland Octagonal Houses” Sunday Supplement, Baltimore Sun, June 1986.
“New England Slave Sites” Journal of Regional Cultures, 1983.
“The Age of the Octagon” American Heritage, Vol 34, #5, August/September 1983. (Reprinted in Trends, Japanese language publication of the U.S.I.A., 1985.)
ON-LINE ARTICLES:
“Third Deadliest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil – – And What We Can Learn from It” (Nat Turner and 9-11-01), Op-ed piece posted on History News Network, http://hnn.us/articles/874.html, 7-22-02.
“Don’t Over-reach,” op-ed piece posted on History News Network, http://hnn.us/articles/268.html, September 17, 2001.
EXHIBITION:
“Beyond the Big House – The Architecture of Slavery,” photographs of slaves’ quarters; August – December 2006. Saint Paul’s Pavilion, Stevenson University.
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