{{Short description|American historian (born 1943)}} {{Infobox academic|name=Dale Baum|occupation=Historian|discipline=American Civil War, Reconstruction, political history, quantitative research|birth_place=New Jersey, US|alma_mater=Georgetown University (BA)<br>University of Minnesota (MA, PhD)|workplaces=Texas A&M University|thesis_title=The Political World of Massachusetts Radicalism: Voting Behavior and Ideology in the Civil War Party System, 1854-1872|thesis_year=1978|doctoral_advisor=George D. Green<br>Kinley J. Brauer|birth_date={{birth year and age|1943}}}}
'''Dale Baum''' (born 1943) is an American historian and long time professor at Texas A&M University. He researches the political history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, Texas history, and quantitative research of historiography. Baum has authored three books, ''The Civil War Party System'' (1984), ''The Shattering of Texas Unionism'' (1998), and ''Counterfeit Justice'' (2009).
== Early life and education == Baum was born in 1943 in New Jersey.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Staff directory: Dale Baum|url=https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/history/profile/dale-baum/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts}}</ref> He earned a B.A. in history with a minor in Government at Georgetown University in 1965. During the Vietnam War, Baum served active duty in the United States Coast Guard from 1967 to 1971 and was in the Coast Guard Reserve until honorably discharging in 1973. He completed a M.A. at University of Minnesota in 1972. During the summer of 1973, Baum studied in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. He earned a Ph.D. in history with a minor in political science and sociology at University of Minnesota in 1978. While completing his graduate studies at University of Minnesota, Baum worked as a teaching and research assistant. His dissertation on voting behavior became the basis of his 1984 book. Baum's doctoral advisors were George D. Green and Kinley J. Brauer.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Baum|first=Dale|date=2020|title=Curriculum vitae|url=https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/history/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2020/04/baum.pdf}}</ref>
== Career == Baum's teaching topics include the political history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, Texas history, and quantitative research of historiography.<ref name=":0" /> He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1978 as an assistant professor of history, later being promoted to associate professor in 1985 and full professor in 1999. Baum was a visiting Fulbright professor in the graduate school of international studies at Yonsei University in 2005.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> His book, ''Counterfeit Justice'' (2009), explores the life of Azeline Hearne, a Texas freedwoman during the Reconstruction era who faced multiple lawsuits after inheriting her former owner's estate.<ref name=":2" />
== Personal life == Baum speaks Spanish and some Korean and French. He is well travelled and frequently lived abroad during his summers.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected works ==
* {{Cite book|last=Baum|first=Dale|title=The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876|date=1984|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-1588-5|language=en}}<ref>Reviews of ''The Civil War Party System'': * {{Cite journal|last=Holt|first=Michael F.|date=March 1985|title=The New Political History and the Civil War Era|journal=Reviews in American History|volume=13|issue=1|pages=60–69|doi=10.2307/2702012|jstor=2702012}} * {{Cite journal|last=Gienapp|first=William E.|author-link=William Gienapp|date=1986|title=Review|journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History|volume=16|issue=3|pages=538|doi=10.2307/204523|jstor=204523}} * {{Cite journal|last=Field|first=Phyllis F.|date=1985|title=Review|journal=Social Science History|volume=9|issue=2|pages=229|doi=10.2307/1170891|jstor=1170891}} * {{Cite journal|last=Kruman|first=Marc W.|date=June 1985|title=Review|journal=The Journal of American History|volume=72|issue=1|pages=150|doi=10.2307/1903776|jstor=1903776}} * {{Cite journal|last=Daniel|first=W. Harrison|author-link=W. Harrison Daniel|date=1986|title=Review|journal=The Historian|volume=48|issue=3|pages=461–462|issn=0018-2370|jstor=24447579}} * {{Cite journal|last=Baker|first=Jean H.|author-link=Jean H. Baker|date=April 1985|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=90|issue=2|pages=491|doi=10.2307/1852813|issn=0002-8762|jstor=1852813}} * {{Cite journal|last=Pressly|first=Thomas J.|date=1985|title=Review|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly|volume=69|issue=2|pages=250–252|issn=0016-8297|jstor=40581366}}</ref> * {{Cite book|last=Baum|first=Dale|title=The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era|date=1998|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=978-0-8071-2245-7|language=en}}<ref>Reviews of ''The Shattering of Texas Unionism'': * {{Cite journal|last=Morrison|first=Michael A.|date=August 2000|title=The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era.|journal=The Journal of Southern History|volume=66|issue=3|pages=638|doi=10.2307/2587896|jstor=2587896}} * {{Cite journal|last=Barr|first=Alwyn|author-link=Alwyn Barr|date=1999|title=Review|journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly|volume=103|issue=2|pages=253–254|issn=0038-478X|jstor=30239205}} * {{Cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Randolph B.|date=2000|title=Review|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/|journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|volume=30|issue=4|pages=708–709|doi=10.1162/jinh.2000.30.4.708|issn=0022-1953|jstor=206773|s2cid=142397539|url-access=subscription}} * {{Cite journal|last=Sutherland|first=Daniel E.|date=2001|title=Review|journal=The Journal of American History|volume=88|issue=3|pages=1083–1084|doi=10.2307/2700451|issn=0021-8723|jstor=2700451}} * {{Cite journal|last=Crouch|first=Barry A.|date=2000|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=105|issue=3|pages=929–930|doi=10.2307/2651869|issn=0002-8762|jstor=2651869}}</ref> * {{Cite book|last=Baum|first=Dale|title=Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne|date=2009|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3405-4|language=en}}<ref name=":2">Reviews of ''Counterfeit Justice'': * {{Cite journal|last=Sumler-Edmond|first=Janice L.|date=2009|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=114|issue=5|pages=1467–1468|doi=10.1086/ahr.114.5.1467|issn=0002-8762|jstor=23303495}} * {{Cite journal|last=Regosin|first=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Regosin|date=2013|title=Review|journal=Journal of the Civil War Era|volume=3|issue=3|pages=429–431|issn=2154-4727|jstor=26062085}} * {{Cite journal|last=Kelley|first=Sean|date=2010|title=Review|journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly|volume=114|issue=1|pages=101–102|issn=0038-478X|jstor=25745939}} * {{Cite journal|author1-link=Merline Pitre|last=Pitre|first=Merline|date=2010|title=Review|journal=The Journal of Southern History|volume=76|issue=4|pages=1028–1029|issn=0022-4642|jstor=27919333}}</ref>
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