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Richard Jensen (b 1941) has a PhD in American Studies (Yale 1966) and has been a professor of history and political science at numerous schools, including Harvard, West Point, Moscow State, Washington (St. Louis), Michigan, and Illinois-Chicago. He is currently Research Professor at Montana State University, Billings, Montana, where he teaches world history. Since 2000 he has edited the email-based discussion group "Conservativenet", which caters to conservative scholars. (see [http://listserv2.uic.edu/htbin/wa?A0=conservativenet&D=0&F=&H=0&O=T&S=&T=0 online archives and free subscriptions]
He has made hundreds of contributions to Wikipedia and Citizendium.
his '''Books:''' include:
*''Historians Guide to Statistics'' (1971; 1974)
*''The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896'' (1971)
**named one of the "Five Best Books" on Conservative History by the [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123819154183460921.html ''Wall Street Journal'' March 28, 2009]
*''Illinois: A History'' (1978, 2001)
*''The Evolution of American Electoral Systems''' (coauthor, 1981)
*''Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-198'' (1983).
*''World Population'' (1999)
*''World War Two on the Web'' (2002, coauthor)
*''Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe and Asia in the Twentieth Century'' (2003) co-editor and author
*''Civil War on the Web'' (2nd ed. 2003; coauthor)
*''Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront'' (coeditor vol 4, 2005)
he is '''Author of On-Line Resources''':
*"Scholars Guide to WWW," (1995- updated occasionally) published on
numerous History Department WWW pages. For latest version, go to[http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/]
*"Web Sources for Military History" (1999-, updated every few months) latest version, [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html]
*"World Population: A Guide to WWW" (1998-, updated occasionally) [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/populate.html]
*"Guide to Political Research On-Line" (1999-, updated occasionally) [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/political.htm]
*"Online Guide to American Political History" (2001-, updated occasionally) [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/pol-gl.htm]
*"Railroad History: [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/railroad.htm]
*"Civil War & Reconstruction: [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/civwar.htm]
*"Vietnam War: [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/vietnam.html]