Gustavus Adolphus College

Professor
History

Greg Kaster has been at Gustavus since 1986. He teaches the US history survey, as well as courses on American radicalism, Revolutionary America, and America in the age of the Civil War. He received his BA from Northern Illinois University in 1978 and his PhD from Boston University in 1990.

His general research/writing/teaching interests include American intellectual, cultural, and gender history, the periods from the American Revolution through the Civil War, and the history of American protest and dissent. Current specific research has focused on the history of manhood and masculinity in the United States, and the life, thought, and image of Horace Greeley. Publications include an essay on the American labor movement, 1790-1860, in Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, ed. Immanuel Ness (M.E. Sharpe, 2004), and "Labor's True Man: Organized Workingmen and the Language of Manliness in the USA, 1827-1877," Gender and History 13 (April 2001), pp. 24-64.

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