Professor of History in the Dept. of History, Philosophy, Politics, Global Studies & Legal Studies (School of Humanities & Social Sciences)
Education
- Ph.D. in History (1994), University of Kentucky
Courses Taught
- HIS 202 - American Studies
- HIS 317 - American Foreign Policy
- HIS 318 - American Military History
- HIS 307 - Vietnam and Watergate
- HIS 377 - Twentieth Century Asian Wars
Research Interests: Vietnam War
Service Activities
- Faculty Sponsor, College Democrats
- President's Leadership Academy, 2007-2008
Organizations
- Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Southern Historical Association
- Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
Selected Publications
- Ernst, John 1998. Forging a Fateful Alliance: Michigan State University and the Vietnam War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
- Co-editor, with David L. Anderson, The War that Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
- Technical Editor, Ronald B. Frankum and Stephen F. Maxner, The Vietnam War for Dummies. New York: Wiley Publishers, 2002.
- Co-author, with Yvonne Baldwin, “The Not So Silent Minority: Louisville’s Antiwar Movement, 1966-1975,” appearing in The Journal of Southern History 73 (2007): 105-142.
Contact
212 Rader Hall
606-783-2484
j.ernst@moreheadstate.edu