Timothy N. Thurber

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  Timothy N. Thurber is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. He studies civil rights and party politics in twentieth-century America and specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history, political history, and civil rights. He is the author of The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1945-1978 (Columbia University Press, 1998). Recently, he published an essay on “Congress and the Second Reconstruction” in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Reader’s Companion to the American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). He has presented papers at several different conferences, and he has received research and travel grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry S. Truman Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, and the Nelson Rockefeller Institute, among others. For his current project, he is writing an overview of black civil rights and the Republican Party since 1945.