Will B. Mackintosh
Professor
Office: Monroe 230
Phone: 540.654.1474
Email: wmackint@umw.edu
Web: www.willmackintosh.org
Will B. Mackintosh is a cultural and social historian of the 19th century United States, with particular interests in the history of leisure, the history of crime, and the cultural history of capitalism. He is author of Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture (NYU Press 2019) and founding editor of The Panorama, Extensive Views from The Journal of the Early Republic. He is currently working on a new project dealing with the Loomis Gang, a group of horse thieves in nineteenth-century New York. He offers courses on early American history, the American Revolution and Early Republic, gender history, urban history, the history of the book, and the history of capitalism. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College.
Education
- Ph.D., History, 2009. University of Michigan.
- M.A., History, 2004. University of Michigan.
- B.A., History, 2000. Swarthmore College.
Courses
FSEM 100: History That Didn’t Happen
History 131: United States History to 1865
History 132: United States History since 1865
History 304: Civil War
History 310: US Urban History
History 318: American Revolution
History 319: Early American Republic
History 326: History of Manhood in America
History 440: History of the Book
History 471E9: Cultural History of Capitalism in the US
History 471G1: Crime and Punishment in the US
Selected Publications
“Preface: The Material Conditions of Historians’ Labor” (coauthored with Johann Neem and Jessica Choppin Roney). The Journal of the Early Republic 42 (Winter 2022): 539-542.
“Red Jacket Bathed Here: Creating Race and Nation at Early National Mineral Springs.” The Journal of the Early Republic 42 (Fall 2022): 421-450.
The Loomises of Central New York: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of a Gang and Their Region. (Under contract with New York University Press, forthcoming 2027).
Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
For further information, see willmackintosh.org
