David T. Beito
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David T. Beito is a professor of history at the University of Alabama and one of the key contributors to the group weblog Liberty and Power, which is located at the History News Network.
Beito was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a B.A. in history from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and a Ph.D in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1986. Since 1994, he has taught at the University of Alabama, where he is an associate professor in history. He married Linda Royster Beito on June 11, 1997 and they live in Northport, Alabama.
Beito’s research covers a wide range of topics in American history including race, tax revolts, the private provision of infrastructure, and mutual aid.
Beito has published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Southern History, and Journal of Urban History among other scholarly journals. He has received fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, the Olin Foundation, and the Institute for Humane Studies.
He is currently writing (with his co-author Professor Linda Royster Beito of Stillman College the book Black Maverick: How T.R.M. Howard Mentored the Civil Rights Movement and Made a Fortune, a biography of civil rights leader T.R.M. Howard.
Beito also writes frequently on current controversies related to academic freedom and academic standards including the speech code issue, the Academic Bill of Rights, grade inflation, and the murder of Emmett Till. He is a former president of the Alabama Scholars Association.
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[edit] Books
- Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill), 1989.
- From Mutual Aid the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, University of North Carolina Press (Cambridge), 1992.
[edit] Edited Books
- The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 2002.
[edit] Selected Articles and Chapters in Collections
- Blacks, Gun Cultures and Gun Control: T.R.M. Howard, Armed Self Defense, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, The Journal of Firearms and Public Policy (September 2005).
- T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954, Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa), 2004.
- T.R.M. Howard: A Mississippi Doctor in Chicago Civil Rights, AME Church Review (July-September 2001), 51-59.
- “Rival Road Builders: Private Toll Roads in Nevada, 1852-1880,* Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 41 (Summer 1998), 71-91.
- From Privies to Boulevards: The Private Supply of Infrastructure in the United States during the Nineteenth Century in Jerry Jenkins and David Sisk, eds., Development by Consent: The Voluntary Supply of Public Goods and Services, San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993, 23-48.
- The Formation of Urban Infrastructure through Non-Governmental Planning: The Private Places of St. Louis, 1869-1920, Journal of Urban History 16 (May 1990), 263-301.
- "Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,"Independent Review 4 (Spring 2000), 555-75.
- Why It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Will Ever Be Solved, History News Network
- Why the '60 Minutes' Story on Emmett Till Was a Disappointment, History News Network *David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito,
- "The Grim and Overlooked Anniversary of the Murder of the Rev. George W. Lee, Civil Rights Activist" History News Network, May 6, 2005.
- "The AHA's Double Standard on Academic Freedom" Perspectives, March 2006 (with Ralph E. Luker, and Robert K. C. Johnson).
