Ph.D. - The Catholic University of America
M.A. - The Catholic University of America
B.A. - St. Michael's College
Michael J. Connolly
Books
Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003.)
Articles
“‘I Make Politics My Recreation’: Vice President Garret A. Hobart and Nineteenth Century Republican Business Politics,” New Jersey History, Vol. 125, 1 (2010). 20-39.
“‘Tearing Down the Burning House’: James Buchanan’s use of Edmund Burke,” American Nineteenth Century History 10 (2), June 2009, 211-221.
“New England Industry and Workers,” Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc. 2008. 117-131. (Co-authored with Mary Beth Fraser Connolly)
“Barrett Wendell: New England Orderly Idealist,” Modern Age, 48 (4), Fall 2006, 320-329.
"The Correction of Our Political Philosophy: New England Whigs and the 1851 Boston Railroad Jubilee," New England Quarterly, 79 (2), June 2006, 202-226.
“Introduction,” Historical New Hampshire, Spring 2005, 59 (1), 4-5. (Introduction to special Franklin Pierce bicentennial issue, “Revealing Relationships: The Family and Friends of Franklin Pierce.”)
“The ‘Grave Emergency’ of 1909: Modernism and the Paulist Fathers,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 20 (3), Summer 2002, 51-68.
“Charles Sumner,” Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary. Eds. Charles F. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn. (New Haven: Greenwood Press, 1998.) 405-415.
“A Dog’s Life for Christ: The Life and Times of George Deshon, CSP, 1823-1903,” Paulist History, 7 (1), Winter 1998, 3-27.
Encyclopedia Entries and Essays
“John Quincy Adams,” and “Conservatism,” The Encyclopedia of New England Culture. Eds. Burt Feintuch and David Watters. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.)
“Eugene Hale” and “Hannibal Hamlin,” Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age.
Eds. Leonard Schlup and James Ryan. (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.)
“Nathaniel Banks,” “Gaetano Bedini,” and “Franklin Pierce,” The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 vols. Eds. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Inc., 2000.)
Book Reviews
Review of The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1865-1902: Economic Cycles, Business Decision-Making, and Regional Dynamics by R.G. Healey, H-SHGAPE (September 2009)