Chair, Department of History
Office: 109A Willingham Hall
Email: mschoenbachler@una.edu
Phone: (256) 765-4547

Profile

Matt Schoenbachler is a historian of the early American Republic. His publications include Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy (2009), Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America (2019) (co-author), and The Norton Mix: American History (2013) (co-author). Dr. Schoenbachler is currently working on a number of projects, including a history of the Andrew Jackson’s Bank War, the trans-Appalachian origins of the Jacksonian movement, and the use of cannabis in antebellum America.

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Kentucky (1996)
M.A., History, University of Kentucky (1992)
B.S., History and Commercial Music, University of North Alabama (1989)

Recent Courses Taught

HI 201/202                            United States History to/since 1877
HI 201/202 Honors                 United States History to/since 1877
HI 390                                   History of Rock Music
HI 451/551                            The American Revolution
HI 452/552                            History of the Early Republic
HI 453/553                            Civil War and Reconstruction
HI 485/585                            Film and American History
HI 611                                   American Revolution Seminar
HI 612                                   Jacksonian America Seminar

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America, with Lawrence Nelson (University of Kansas Press, 2019)

The Norton Mix: American History, with Karen Dunn-Haley, Stephen K. Davis, and Wendy Wall (W.W. Norton, 2013)

Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy. (University of Kentucky press, 2009; paperback, 2011)

ARTICLES

“Republicanism in the Age of Democratic Revolution: The Democratic Societies of the 1790s,” Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Summer 1998): 237-261.