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Mark Wahlgren Summers is a historian in the United States. He is a professor at the University of Kentucky.

His father Clyde Summers was a law professor at Yale University.

He has appeared on C-Span programs.

In 1992 he was interviewed by Andrea Webb.

Writings

 * A Student Cartoonist's View of Great Figures in American History (1972)
 * The Presidency in Political Cartoons, 1776-1976 (1976)
 * Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity (1984)
 * The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1861 (1987)
 * The Era of Good Stealings (1992)
 * The Press Gang (1994)
 * The Gilded Age (1997)
 * Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000)
 * A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (2009)

Articles

 * "The Chimera of Whig Persistence: Louisiana and the Election of 1865" (1983)
 * "A Band of Brigands: The 'Gridiron' Legislature and the Nomination of Lincoln" (1984)
 * "The Press Gang" (1990)