MVSA President, 1977-1980 | MVSA Executive Board, 1984-1988
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Victorian politics and religion; social and economic movements
Selected Publications: Queen Victoria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Protestant Versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England (Missouri, 1982); Britain Yesterday & Today: 1830 to the Present (Lexington, MA., 1st ed, 1966; 8th ed., 2001); The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics (Oxford, 1965; updated ed., Missouri, 1983)