Departments

• History
• Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~history/faculty/butler.html

Contact Information

Email: leslie.butler@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-9350
Office: 6107 Carson Hall

Education

B.A. University of Rochester; M.Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University

Areas of Expertise

19th-century American history; Gilded Age; Victorian America

Selected Works

• Cultivating America: Victorian Men of Letters and Transatlantic Liberal Reform, (2006-7).
• "Reconstructions in Intellectual and Cultural Life," in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, T. Brown (ed.) (2006).
• "Liberal Victorians and Foreign Policy in the Age of Empire," in The Problem of Evil: Race, Slavery, and the Ambiguities of Reform, S. Mintz (ed.) (2006).
• "Investigating the 'Great American Mystery': Theory and Style in Henry Adams' Political Reform Moment," in Henry Adams and the Need to Know, W. Decker (ed.), (2005) 80-103.
• "Dead Presidents and American Reform," Reviews in American History, 32 (September 2004) 399-406.

Current Projects

"How Liberals Became Wimps: The Victorian Roots of an Emasculated Left;" "The Problem of Ireland in the Age of Liberalism;" The Political Education of Victorian Women