murphy
- Professor of History
- Hanover College
- Hanover, IN 47243-0890
- (812) 866-7222
- murphy@hanover.edu
- B.A. Hanover College 1977-81
- M.A. Northwestern University 1984
- Ph.D. Northwestern University 1988
- Murphy teaches: Foundations of the Modern Age (HIS 111), The History of Western Civilization (HIS 211, 212, 213, 214), Studies in American Military History (HIS 231), Studies in American Indian History (HIS 232), Studies in American Cultural History (HIS 234), Studies in the History of American Thought (HIS 330), The New American Nation, 1750-1815 (HIS 334), The Search for Order, 1877-1945 (HIS 336), Modern America, 1945-Present (HIS 337). He is currently Director of the Center for Free Inquiry at Hanover College.
- Murphy is currently exploring the cultural underpinnings of the debate over American intervention in the Second World War. Subsidiary products include interest in the symbolic resonance of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the 1920's and 1930's, and the Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages to Europe of 1930-1933.
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