Gabriel Loiacono

Research Interests:

Colonial North America and the United States in the Early Republic

• Social, Cultural, and Political history of poverty
• Paupers, the recipients of public assistance
• Moral questions and Reform movements in American history
  
• "Town Fathers" in the late colonial and early republic periods: the men, such as town councilmen or overseers of the poor, who governed their neighbors more completely than any king, president, legislature or Supreme Court
  

Current Book Project:

• Paupers and Overseers in the Early Republic: Five Lives Shaped by the Poor Law
  

Regularly Taught Courses:

• History 201: United States History to 1877
  
• History 339: Public History
  
• History 361: Colonial North America
• History 363: American Indian History
  
• History 364: The Early American Republic, 1787-1828
  
• History 411 (American History Senior Seminar): Reading American Newspapers, 1740-1840
  

Spring 2012 Office Hours:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 11:20-12:20

Contact Information

• Address: Sage Hall 3615
  
• Phone: (920) 424-1409
• E-mail: loiacong@uwosh.edu