ASU History Professor Published in Policy Journal

A press release Tuesday stated that Dr. Kenneth Heineman of Angelo State University’s history faculty recently authored a historical research article published in the April issue of The Journal of Policy History.

The article, titled “Asserting States’ Rights, Demanding Federal Assistance: Texas Democrats in the Era of the New Deal,” addresses President Franklin Roosevelt’s observation that in the 1930s Texans were “running the government of the United States more largely than any other state.” Such Texas Democrats as “Cactus Jack” Garner, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Martin Dies, Tom Connally and James Allred successfully sought massive federal funds and legislative favors to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression in the Lone Star State. The challenge, Heineman argues, was to preserve states’ rights while demanding federal funds and fending off federal efforts to advance civil rights and union organizing in the South.

The Journal of Policy History was founded in 1989 to give voice to scholars pursuing the study of public policy in the United States and other nations. It is published four times a year through the cooperation of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, the Institute for Political History, and Cambridge University Press.

Heineman joined ASU’s History Department faculty in 2009, serving as chair until 2014. In addition to numerous other journal articles, essays in edited volumes and encyclopedia entries, he is the author of five books, most recently, “Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio,” published by New York University Press in 2012. He is also the author of “Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era,” “God Is a Conservative: Religion, Politics, and Morality in Contemporary America,” “A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh” and “Put Your Bodies Upon The Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s.”

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree and doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh.

For more information, contact Heineman at 325-942-2113 or [email protected].