Professor Kyle G. Volk's award-winning research and teaching focus on the broad history of the United States, with emphasis on political, intellectual, legal, and social history. He is especially interested in the history of American democracy; the problem and politics of dissent and difference in American society; capitalism, law, and the American state; civil rights, civil liberties, and the contested meaning of freedom in American life.

HSTA 101: American History I 
HSTA 103: Honors American History I
HSTR 200: Introduction to Historical Methods
HSTA 201: History of American Democracy
HSTA 315: Early American Republic
HSTA 316: American Civil War Era
HSTA 377: Intoxication Nation: Alcohol in American History

HSTA 380: American Constitutional History
HSTA 382: United States Legal History
HSTA 391: Dissent, Disobedience, & U.S. Democracy
HSTR 400: Historical Research Seminar: Law & Society in Nineteenth-Century America 
HSTA 405: Public Problems & U.S. Democracy 
HSTR 500: History Pedagogy
HSTA 501: Readings in Early American History 
HSTA 577: Law, Capitalism, & Democracy in U.S. History 
HSTA 591: United States Legal History 
HSTA 594: Graduate Research Seminar