Todd Laugen

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Todd Laugen

Director of General Studies & Professor of History

Academic Effectiveness

Bio

I specialize in American History after 1865, including the History of Politics, Workers, Women, and the West. As a former high school history and government teacher, I remain interested in history education and the preparation of effective teachers.
A recent project, written with my History Department colleague Meg Frisbee, focused on K-12 students of history: Colorado History Detectives: Teaching Historical Literacy to School-Aged Readers: https://coloradohistorydetectives.pressbooks.com/.
In 2010 I completed a study of politics and activism in Colorado during the early 20th Century: The Gospel of Progressivism: Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900-1930

Degree

PhD in History

University of Colorado at Boulder

Other in Social Studies

San Jose State

MA in Social Sciences Education

Stanford University

BA in Double Major: History and German

University of Virginia

Published Works

  • Laugen, T. R. (2023). Review of Chad Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteeth Century". Register of the Kentucky Historical Society,
  • Laugen, T. R. (2022). Wilbur Steele. Colorado Encyclopedia, https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/wilbur-steele
  • Laugen, T. R. (2021). Review of Michael Cohen, "The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly". American Historical Review, https://academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/126/1
  • Laugen, T. R. . Review of Manuscript: Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine. University Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. R., Johnson, N. (2020). Progressive Era in Colorado. Colorado Encyclopedia, https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/progressive-era-colorado
  • Laugen, T., Frisbee, A. M. (2019). Colorado History Detectives: Teaching Historical Literacy to School-Aged Readers. , coloradohistorydetectives.pressbooks.com
  • Laugen, T. (2018). Review of Gregory Wood, "Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace". Journal of American History, doi-org.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/jahist/jax489
  • Laugen, T. . Review of "Governors and the Progressive Movement". University of Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. (2016). Review of "Persistent Progressives: The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union". Colorado Book Review, http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16079coll52/id/490/rec/1
  • Laugen, T. . Review of "The Ludlow Massacre". University Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. . Review of "Power, Patronage, and Protection Rackets". University Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. (2014). Teaching history in Jefferson County Schools. The Denver Post, www.denverpost.com/2014/10/11/teaching-history-in-jefferson-county-schools/
  • Laugen, T. . JAH Confidential article review #13-185. Journal of American History,
  • Laugen, T. (2013). Review of David Zonderman, "Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston". Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas,
  • Laugen, T. . Second Review of Making an American Workforce: The CFI Company's Construction of a Workforce During the Rockefeller Years. University Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. . First Review of Making an American Workforce: The CFI Company's Construction of a Workforce During the Rockefeller Years. University Press of Colorado,
  • Laugen, T. . Review of "Fleeing the Burn: Refugees, Informal Assistance, and Progressive Era Welfare Practices". Journal of Policy History,
  • Laugen, T. (2010). The Gospel of Progressivism: Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900-1930. (). Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
  • Laugen, T. (2009). Review of David R. Berman Radicalism in the Mountain West 1890-1920. New Mexico Historical Review,
  • Laugen, T. (2007). "Worker Mobilization, management resistance: 1920's" in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, ed. by Eric Arnesen. Routledge,
  • Laugen, T. (2007). Review of Jeanette Keith, Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War. Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas,
  • Laugen, T. (2007). Review of Shelton Stromquist, Reinventing "The People". Left History,
  • Laugen, T. (2005). Struggles for the Public Interest: Organized Labor and State Mediation in the 1920's. Journal of the Gilded age and Progressive Era,
  • Laugen, T. (2002). Review of William Millikan, A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903-1947. Labor History,

Research Interests

History Education, Politics, American West, Colorado, Editorial Cartoons

Office Hours

Monday: 12:00 - 2:00 online

Tuesday: 12:30 - 1:30 in CN 211

Wednesday: 11:00 - 2:00 in CN 211

Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 in CN 211