Dr. Angela Firkus

Associate Professor of History and Political Science

Dr. Angela Firkus holds the Ph.D. from Purdue University. She teaches both United States history and political science courses. These include the two-semester survey class in U.S. history, the history of women in the U.S., the history of the American West, American government, and comparative politics. In addition, Dr. Firkus often works with students outside of her standard classes. She has recently supervised a directed study on how wars are remembered in memoirs and in popular culture. She also has a number of ongoing projects in public history that her students work on. She supervises architectural preservation research, a photograph cataloguing project in the Cottey College Archives, and ongoing work for the local history museum.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Firkus remains active in the history profession. She is doing research and writing about the history of the American West and attends conferences in her field. Her recently published book is titled Route Across the Rocky Mountains and is available through Purdue University Press. She is also a member of the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Society for History Education, and the Organization of American Historians.

PUBLICATIONS

Meriam Report, Francis E. Leupp and Oshkosh-Menominee Indian in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

19th Century Overland Travelers Returning East. Journal of the West (Summer 2007): 50-55.

Review of The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917, by David W. Southern. In The History Teacher 39 (February 2006): 277-278.

Review of The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, by Kass Fleisher. In The History Teacher, 38 (August 2005): 548-549.

Review of They Made Us Many Promises: The American Indian Experience 1524 to the Present, ed. by Philip Weeks. In The History Teacher 36 (May 2003): 426-427.

Review of Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, edited by Theda Perdue. In The History Teacher 35 (February 2002).

Review of Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes 1880-1940, by Sherry L. Smith. In The History Teacher 34 (August 2001).

Route Across the Rocky Mountains. Edited with an introduction by Angela Firkus. West Lafayette, IN: NotaBell Books, 2000.

Email: afirkus@cottey.edu

Department of History & Political Science

• Dr. Angela Firkus
• Dr. Derek Rivard
• Dr. Kanji Watanabe

Course Descriptions