User:Rjensen

Please click here to leave me a new message. My Wikipedia biography is Richard J. Jensen; its talk page lists a lot of additional activities. In recent years I have worked on Wikipedia, with over 210,000 edits to 15,000 articles, mostly in history. Since taking a Ph.D. at Yale in 1966, I have been an active historian, with numerous books, essays, and papers on quite a variety of themes, especially American political, social, military, and economic history, as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. Since 1967 I have authored, co-authored, or edited 21 scholarly or popular books and written 45 scholarly articles. Here are my most recent popular books. I served as well on the editorial boards of six academic journals, such as the Journal of American History and the American Journal of Sociology, and have been a permanent or visiting professor at U Illinois-Chicago, Washington U, U. Michigan, Harvard U, West Point, Moscow State (in Russia), etc. I am retired from teaching as a Research Professor at Montana State University, Billings, Montana, USA. Here's my favorite book I've written: The Winning of the Midwest: 1888-1896 (1971), online here. For my entire career, I have been (in terms of theology) a moderately liberal Roman Catholic historian of religion, a moderately conservative historian of politics, and a radical in methodology.

My Wikimania talk on July 13, 2012 explains how wiki editors refought the war of 1812 --it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zbdC__-JUNY#t=1871  I revised the talk to also explore how Wikipedia operates like a frontier society. It is now (Oct 5 2012) in print as "Military History on the Electronic Frontier: Wikipedia Fights the War of 1812," The Journal of Military History 76#4 (October 2012): 1165-82; a version is online here

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