Nathan B. Sanderson
Director of Policy, SD Dept. of Ag
Contact Information:
612 Oldfather Hall
Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (605) 280-8852
E-mail:
Curriculum Vitae: Curriculum Vitae
Joined the Department:
Fall, 2005.
Nathan Sanderson is a Ph.D. candidate studying the North American West with emphases in borderlands, digital, and environmental history. He has developed a digital project, "William Jennings Bryan and the Railroad", based on Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign. This project documents each of Bryan's 746 speeches delivered during the campaign, follows his extensive use of the railroad, and includes 216 speech transcripts. It demonstrates how Bryan's innovative use of the railroad paralleled the country's emerging mobility and ushered in a new type of political campaign.
Nathan is currently working on his dissertation, "Crooked Rump: George Edward Lemmon, Open-Range Cattle Ranching and the Development of the Northern Great Plains," a study of cattle ranching, railroads, and settlement on the Great Plains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Expertise:
- Borderlands
- Digital History
- Environmental
- Great Plains
- North American West
Education:
Ph.D. in History. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, expected 2010.
M.A. in History. University of Indianapolis, 2005.
B.S. in Agriculture Education. South Dakota State University, 2003.
Nathan is the Director of Policy for the South Dakota Department of Agriculture. His office is located in Pierre, SD.
