History Department

David Quigley

associate professor & director of institute for the liberal arts 

David Quigley

Telephone: (617) 552-1766

Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 419

Email: david.quigley@bc.edu

Curriculum Vitae: please click here 

Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~quigleda/

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 1997

Fields of Interest

Nineteenth-century United States; urban history; Civil War and Reconstruction; America and the world

Academic Profile

Professor Quigley teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on the nineteenth-century United States and on political and urban history. His research to date has explored the history of race and democracy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction in the local political cultures of New York. He is completing a new synthetic project, “Last, Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War" (Hill & Wang) and editing “A Companion to American Urban History” (Blackwell) and “Busing in Boston: A Brief History with Documents” (Bedford).

Representative Publications

  • Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (2004)
  • Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877. Co-authored with David N. Gellman (New York University Press, 2003)