Professor
410-617-2635
ccheape@loyola.edu
Office: Humanities 303

Biography

Chuck Cheape did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and received his doctorate in U.S. history from Brandeis University, which he attended under the Southern Christian quota. After stints at Dartmouth College and Oklahoma State University, he joined Loyola's history department in 1984, where he continues to teach courses about the U.S. since the Civil War, the Gilded Age in the United States, and American business history. He has written books about the development of mass transit in several eastern U.S.cities, the history of Norton Company, and the career of Walter Carpenter, a top executive at Du Pont and General Motors. He is currently researching worker ownership and the origins of the Pennsylvania Railroad's pension plan.

Areas of Specialization

• U.S. Business History
• American History

Courses

• HS 341 U.S. Since the Civil War
• HS 361 Merchants and Farmers, Planters and Slaves: The Roots of American Business
• HS 362 Industrial and Big Business Economy
• HS 427 Era of Good Stealings? Gilded Age America: 1865-1900 (Special Topic)
• HS 462 Seminar: Taking Care of Business: The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s

Publications

	Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
	Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985).
	Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transport in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1880-1912 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980).