Professor
410-617-2856
tpegram@loyola.edu
Office: Humanities 305

Curriculum Vitae

BIOGRAPHY

Thomas R. Pegram was born in the Midwest and grew up in California. He received his B.A. from Santa Clara University and my Ph.D. in American history from Brandeis University, and has been at Loyola since 1990. Specializing in the study of American political institutions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr. Pegram has written books on state-level progressive politics and the history of American temperance and prohibition. He is currently working on issues of prohibition enforcement in the 1920s, especially the interaction of formal state agencies and private associations such as the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Late 19th/Early 20th Century American Political and Social History

COURSES

HS 352 America Since 1945
HS 363 Diplomatic History of the United States
HS 350 World War II in the United States
HS 348 The Civil War and Reconstruction

PUBLICATIONS

	Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870-1922 (University of Illinois Press, 1992)
	Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1900-1933(Ivan R. Dee, 1998)