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UT Tyler Department of History

Matthew Stith

Matthew Stith

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of History
Building: BUS 238
Email: mstith@uttyler.edu
Phone: 903.566.7430

Degrees

B.A., Missouri Southern State University

M.A., University of Arkansas

Ph.D., University of Arkansas

Biography

Professor Stith's teaching interests include antebellum America, the Civil War, American environmental history, American borderlands, and the American South.  His research focuses on the intersection of social, military, and environmental history in nineteenth-century America.  To that end, his current book-length manuscript explores the relationship between white, Native-American, and African-American civilians and soldiers at war on the western border of the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the Civil War .  He is also in the preliminary stages of a book-length study of how nature shaped the course of the Civil War.  He has articles in Civil War History, Military History of the West, and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

Professor Stith grew up in the country near Bartlesville in beautiful northeastern Oklahoma. After attending Missouri Southern State University for his B.A., he received his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas. He taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith before moving to east Texas—where he joined the  Department of History at UT-Tyler in the fall of 2011.

When not hanging out with his wonderful wife and children or watching Sooner football, Professor Stith loves to fly-fish and otherwise wander about outdoors.

Classes Taught:

HIST 1301 U.S. History I

HIST 1302 U.S. History II

HIST 3300 Historical Methods and Research

HIST 4322 The American South

HIST 4333 American Military History

HIST 4377 American Borderlands

HIST 4379 The Age of Jackson

HIST 4386 Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 5340 Seminar in American History

HIST 5379 The Age of Jackson

HIST 5386 The Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 5394 Historiography

Curriculum Vitae

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