Paul Kopperman
Emeritus Appointment
School of History, Philosophy & Religion
Curriculum Vitae
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Research/Career Interests
British history, 1500-1800; British military, 1650-1800; Enlightenment medicine; Holocaust
Background
- Kopperman's research interests, reflected in the publications entry below, include: Tudor-Stuart history (mainly constitutional, social, colonial); Hanoverian Britain (mainly medical and military; military with focus on the British Army in North America, 1755-83); and the Holocaust within the context of the history of Anti-Semitism.
- Before entering the University of Illinois (Ph.D., 1972), Kopperman studied at Queens College, New York (B.A., 1966; M.A., 1969). A member of faculty at Oregon State since September 1978, he had previously taught at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and at Illinois.
Select Publications
“Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D.:
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Braddock at the Monongahela (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977; 3rd printing, 2004). |
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Sir Robert Heath, 1575-1649: Window on an Age (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Royal Historical Society, 1989). |
- He has also published more than twenty articles, essays, and papers, most of them focused on some aspect of the 18th-century British Army or on medical history.
- Kopperman's booklets, Ashes and Smoke: The Holocaust in Its History and The Holocaust: What It Was - Why It Was - Why It Is Remembered, were published in 2003 by the Anti-Defamation League.
- Kopperman is currently working on a book on the medical history of the British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755-83.
Service
Courses Taught
HST 101 History of Western Civilization
HST 102 History of Western Civilization
HST 315 The European Military, 1400-1815
HST 316 The American Military, 1607-1865
HST 317 Why War: A Historical Perspective
HST 425 The Holocaust in its History
HSTS 416 History of Medicine Pre-1800
HST 433 English History (Medieval - Tudor-Stuart)
HST 434 English History (1688 - Present)