Jason Stacy
Professor
History and Social Science Pedagogy
Office Phone: 618-650-3966
Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1219
Email: jstacy@siue.edu
Jason Stacy teaches courses on antebellum US history, US intellectual history, social science pedagogy, and applied historical methods, including digital and documentary editing.
Education
PhD, Loyola University Chicago, 2006
Master Degree of Liberal Arts, University of Chicago, 2001
MA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1994
BS, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1992
Books
Walt Whitman Between Leaves: Tracing Paths Untrodden, 1856-1860, with Stephanie Blalock, Kevin McMullen, and Stefan Schöberlein, University of Edinburgh Press, under contract.
Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town, University of Illinois Press, 2021. Reviewed in: Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review), Third Coast Review, Times Literary Supplement, frontporchrepublic.com, New York Review of Books, Journal of American Culture, Choice (Recommended), Middle West Review, American Literary History, The Journal of American History.
Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855, Peter Lang Publishers, 2008. Reviewed in: The Journal of American History, Papers on Language & Literature, Popular Culture Review, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Textbooks
Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, with Matt Ellington, Bedford/Freeman/Worth, 1st edition, 2020; 2nd edition, 2024.
Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts and Skills for the AP® Course, with Stephen Heller, Bedford/Freeman/Worth, 2015.
Editions (print)
Small Utopia: William Allen White's Midwestern Town, with Charles Delgadillo, University Press of Kansas, under contract.
Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History vol. 1, with James Sabathne, Oxford University Press, 2016.
Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History vol. 2, with James Sabathne, Oxford University Press, 2016.
Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism, with Douglas Noverr, University of Iowa Press, 2015. Reviewed in: Choice (Highly Recommended), Resources for American Literary Study, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Leaves of Grass 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition, University of Iowa Press, 2009. Reviewed in: Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Editions (digital)
“Walt Whitman’s Journalism in the Brooklyn Daily Times,” with Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen, and Stefan Schöberlein, The Walt Whitman Archive, 2024
“Walt Whitman's Editorials for the New York Aurora,” The Walt Whitman Archive, 2020.
“Walt Whitman's Sun-Down Papers--From the Desk of a Schoolmaster,” The Walt Whitman Archive, 2016.
“Walt Whitman's Letters from a Traveling Bachelor,” The Walt Whitman Archive, 2015.
“Walt Whitman's Letters from Paumanok,” The Walt Whitman Archive, 2014.
“Walt Whitman's New York Dissected,” The Walt Whitman Archive, 2014.
Class Edited Books (HIST 425, HIST 446)
The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Edgar Lee Masters, Southern Illinois University Press/Saluki Publishing, 2023. Winner, "Best of Illinois History" Award, Illinois State Historical Society.
Legends of Mexico, George Lippard, Hastings College Press, 2019.
Book Chapters
"The Midwestern Small Town: An Interpretive Problem of Mythical Proportions," in Jon Lauck, ed., Hearing the Heartland: Essays on the Plight and Promise of the New Midwestern History, University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming.
“Walt Whitman’s Print Personas: 1840-1865,” in Ken Price, Stefan Schöberlein, eds., Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Popucrats: Producerist Populism and the Formation of Midwestern Political Identity in the 1890s,” in Jon Lauck, ed., The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900, Hastings College Press, 2020.
“Clerk Trouble: Masculinity, Consumerism, and Whitman's Print Culture,” in Robert Evans, ed., Critical Insights: Walt Whitman, Salem Press, 2019.
“Walt Whitman’s Journalism,” in Joanna Levin and Ed Whitley, eds., Walt Whitman in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“Whitman, Lincoln, and a Forgotten Form of Freedom,” in Stephen Hansen, Caroline Pryor, eds., Teaching Lincoln, Peter Lang Publishers, 2014.
Journal Articles
“’One of the grand works of the world’: Walt Whitman and the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856-1859,” with Stephanie M. Blalock, and Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, Technology and Culture, 65, no. 1 (2024): 237-263.
“Walt Whitman, Editor of the New-York Atlas, with Stefan Schöberlein, Stephanie M. Blalock, and Kevin McMullen, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 39 (2022), 188-207.
"Whose Revolt? Carl Van Doren and the Manufactured Revolt from the Village.” Midwestern Miscellany 49 (2021), 93 -117.
"Walt Whitman at the Aurora: A Model for Journalistic Attribution,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, with Kevin McMullen and Stefan Schöberlein, 37 (2019), 107-115.
"Walt Whitman's Journalism,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 34 (2017), 358-361.
“Secondhand Arguments: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the American Antismoking Campaign, 1900-2000,” with Stephen Hansen, Studies in American Culture, 37 (2014), 101-119.
“Morbid Inferences: Whitman, Wikipedia, and the Debate over the Poet's Sexuality,” with Cory Blad and Rob Velella, Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, 3 (2013), 1-15.
“Building Reading, Writing and Analysis in the AP US History Classroom,” with Stephen Heller, Social Education, 77 (2013), 256-259.
“Becoming Illuminated: New York City’s Public School Society and Its Religious Discontents, 1805-1840,” American Educational History, 37 (2010), 455-471.
“Washington's Tears: Sentimental Anecdote and Walt Whitman's Battle of Long Island,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 27 (2010), 213-226.
“An Appeal to the Unappealing: Some Thoughts on Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman’s Troubling Anti-Slavery Rhetoric,” Learning for Democracy: An International Journal of Thought and Practice, 3 (2009), 1-19.
“The Guide on the Stage: In Defense of Good Lecturing in the History Classroom,” Social Education, Oct. 2009, 274-277.
“Showing Their Condition: Walt Whitman and Ethical Aesthetics in the ‘Sun-Down Papers,’” The Mickle Street Review: an Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies, 19/20 (2008).
“Dialectic for U.S. History (with apologies to Professor Hegel),” Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Sciences, 67 (Fall 2007), 11-18.
“Strangers Across the Hall: Comparing the DBQ and Synthesis Questions,” AP English Language and Composition Special Focus: Using Sources, 2007.
“’I do not think we can keep universities open with bayonets’: The May 1970 Riots at Southern Illinois University,” Journal of Illinois History, Winter 9 (2006), 283-306.
“Containing Multitudes: Whitman, the Working Class, and the Music of Moderate Reform,” Popular Culture Review, 13:2 (2002), 137-154.
Grants (selected)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship, Attribution, and Display," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024-2025.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, “Walt Whitman’s Journalism: Finding the Poet in the Brooklyn Daily Times,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021-2023.
Madison County Regional Office of Education, Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive of Madison County, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2015-2018.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions Grant, “Walt Whitman’s Writings before Leaves of Grass,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012-2015.
Department of Education, Teaching American History Grant, “People and Places: The Story of Freedom, Liberty, and Equality,” St. Clair County Regional Office of Education, 2009-2012.
