Faculty and Staff

Walter L. Arnstein

804 West Green Street
Champaign IL 61820-5017
TEL: (217) 352-4783; FAX: (217) 352-4184
e-mail: warnstei@uiuc.edu

Current Vita

Education:

B.S.S. (History) City College of New York 1951
M.A. (History) Columbia University 1954
(University of London 1956-57)
Ph.D. (History) Northwestern University 1961

Academic Appointments

City College of New York
Visiting Lecturer (Summer 1954, 1955)
Roosevelt University (Chicago)
Assistant Professor to Professor of History, 1957-1968
Acting Chairman, Department of History, Fall, 1965
Acting Dean, Graduate Division, 1966-67
Northwestern University
Visiting Associate Professor of History, 1963-64; Spring 1966
University of Chicago
Visiting Lecturer, Spring 1965
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Associate Professor of History, Summer 1964
Professor of History, 1968-1998; Emeritus, 1998-
Jubilee Professor of the Liberal Arts & Sciences, 1989-1998; Emeritus,
1998-
Department Director of Graduate Studies, 1970-73; 1986-87
Chairman, Department of History, 1974-1978; Acting Chair, Fall 1989
Supervisor of 25 successfully defended Ph.D. dissertations in History
Other campus offices include: Member, executive committee,
Graduate College, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, School of
Humanities; Member, University Research Board; Member, C-U
Senate; Chair, Senate Academic Calendar Committee (3 years).

Academic Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Alpha Theta
Fulbright Scholarship (U. of London), 1956-57
Roosevelt U. Faculty Research Fellowship, Spring & Summer 1962
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1967-68
Associate, University of Illinois Center for Advanced Studies, Fall 1972
Visiting Fellow (Spring & Summer 1982) and permanent Associate,
Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England
Winner, John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical
Association (1982) for Protestant Versus Catholic
Winner, Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1987):
School of Humanities
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Urbana-Champaign Campus, University of Illinois
Invited Participant, NEH-sponsored seminar on Victorian Culture &
Society at Yale University, Summer 1988
Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
University of Edinburgh, January-June 1989
Winner, Townshend Harris Medal as Distinguished Alumnus of the City
College of New York, 1991
Establishment of the annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Ph.D. students
in Victorian Studies by the Midwest Victorian Studies Association,
1991. (Awarded annually since 1992).

Professional Offices, etc.

Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 1973-
Listings in Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in America, Who's
Who in the World, Gale's, Authors, etc.
Member, Board of Advisers, Victorian Studies, 1966-1975
North American Conference on British Studies
Member, Executive Committee, 1971-1976; 1993-1999
Chairman, Program Committee, 1972-1974
Member, Nominating Committee, 1986-1988
Vice-President, 1993-1995
President, 1995-1997
Member, Board of Editors, The Historian, 1976-2000
Faculty Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta Chapter
Roosevelt University, 1963-1967
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983-1999
"Distinguished Advisory Councilor," Institute for Humanistic Studies,
State University of New York at Albany, 1976-1980
President, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 1977-1980
President, Midwest Conference on British Studies, 1980-1982
Chairman, Schuyler Prize Committee, American Historical Association,
1980-1981
Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Humanities Council, 1980-85; Vice-
Chair, 1983-1984
Member, Board of Editors, The American Historical Review, 1982-1985
Member, Board of Editors, Albion, 1988-1993
President, University of Illinois Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, 1989-1990
Member, U.S. Selection Board for Fulbright Scholars to the United
Kingdom, 1990-1992
Member, Waldo Leland Prize Committee, American Historical
Association, 2001-02
Member, Board of Advisers, Grolier's Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, 2002-03.

Papers Presented at Academic Conferences

More than fifty-five at conferences ranging from the Anglo-American Conference of Historians to the American Historical Association and the North
American Conference on British Studies.

Invited Guest Lecutres at more than forty institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the University of Kentucky,
Miami University, Lake Forest College, Wabash College, and Southern Illinois University in the United States to the Universities of London,
Cambridge, Edinburgh, Durham,York, and Southampton in Britain and the University of Mannheim in Germany.

Publications

Books

The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics (Oxford University Press, 1965). A paperback and hardback reprint with a new
postscript chapter was published as The Bradlaugh Case: Atheism, Sex, and Politics Among the Late Victorians (Columbia, MO.: University of
Missouri Press, 1984).
Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co., 1966; 2nd ed., 1971; 3rd ed. 1976; 4th ed., 1983; 5th ed. 1988; 6th ed., 1992; 7th ed., 1996; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 8th ed., 2001)
(Compiler and Editor) The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History Since 1688 (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath & Co., 1981; 2nd ed., 1993).
(Co-author with the late William B. Willcox) The Age of Aristocracy: 1688-1830 (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co., 3rd ed. 1976; 4th ed., 1983; 5th ed. 1988; 6th ed., 1992; 7th ed., 1996; Houghton Mifflin Co., 8th ed., 2001).
Protestant Versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England: Mr. Newdegate and the Nuns (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1982).
(Editor and Contributor) Recent Historians of Great Britain: Essays on the Post- 1945 Generation (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990).
Queen Victoria (Basingstoke, U.K. and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Hardback and paperback

Articles and Essays

"The Bradlaugh Case: A Reappraisal," Journal of the History of Ideas, 18:2 (April, 1957), 254-69.
"The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered," Business and Society, 2:2 (Spring 1962), pp. 26-30.
"Gladstone and the Bradlaugh Case," Victorian Studies, 5:4 (June 1962), 303-30.
"Britain's Common Market Crisis," Business and Society, 3:1 (Autumn 1962), 14-17.
"Parnell and the Bradlaugh case," Irish Historical Studies, 13: 51 (March 1963), 212-35.
"Votes for Women: Myths and Reality," History Today 18:8 (August, 1968), 531-39.
"Charles Bradlaugh: The Freethinker as Statesman," Question 2(Jan.. 1969), 86-98.
"Victorian Prejudice Reexamined," Victorian Studies, 12:4 (June 1969), 452-57.
Articles in Chicago Sun-Times: Viewpoint Section: 1962, 1963, l966, 1967.
(Editor & Translator), "A German View of English Society: 1851," Victorian Studies 16:2 (Dec., 1972), 183-203).
"The Religious Issue in Mid-Victorian Politics: A Note on a Neglected Source," Albion 4:2 (Summer 1974), pp. 134-43.
"The Survival of the Victorian Aristocracy," in Frederic Jaher, ed., The Rich, the Well-born, and the Powerful (Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 203-57. Reprinted in paperback by Citadel Press in 1975.
"The Myth of the Triumphant Victorian Middle Class," The Historian, 38:2 (Feb., 1975), 205-21.
"The Liberals and the General Election of 1945: A Skeptical Note," Journal of British Studies 14:2 (May 1975), 205-21.
"The Murphy Riots: A Victorian Dilemma," Victorian Studies, 19:1 (Sept., 1975), 51-71.
"George Macaulay Trevelyan and the Art of History: A Centenary Reappraisal," The Midwest Quarterly 18:1 (Autumn, 1976), 78-97.
"In Queen Victoria's Golden Days," Reviews in European History, 3:2 (June 1977), 226-33.
"Edwardian Politics: Turbulent Spring or Indian Summer?" in Alan O'Day, ed., The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability, 1900-1914 (London: Macmillan, 1979; Hamden CT: Archon, 1980), pp. 66-78, 183-85.
(with Randall E. McGowen), "The Mid-Victorians and the Two-Party System," Albion 11:3 (Fall 1979), 242-58.
"The Great Victorian Convent Case," History Today 30 (Feb., 1980), 46-50.
"Victorian Politics: The Age of Peel and Palmerston," (50-minute lecture on cassette tape) (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazer, 1980.
"Victorian Politics: Gladstone and Disraeli," (50 minute lecture on cassette tape) (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazer, 1980.
"Reflections on Histories of Childhood," in Selma Richardson, ed., Research About Nineteenth-Century Children and Books (Urbana: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science), pp. 41-60.
"Great Britain Since 1707," Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia (1983), Vol. 12, pp. 139-53. 2nd ed., 1992.
Review Essay (on three surveys of modern British History), Albion 17:2 (Summer 1985), 187-943.
"Queen Victoria and Religion," in Gail Malmgreen, ed., Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930 (London: Croom Helm, 1986; Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1987), pp. 88-128.
"Queen Victoria" in Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, ed. Sally Mitchell (New York: Garland Press, 1988), pp. 835-37.
"Recent Studies in Victorian Religion: History," Victorian Studies, Vol. 33 #1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 149-63.
"Queen Victoria Opens Parliament: The Disinvention of Tradition," Historical Research, Vol. 63, #151 (June 1990), pp. 178-94.
"Religious Victorians," review essay in the Journal of British Studies, Vol. 31 #3 (July 1992), pp. 300-06 (based primarily on Ian Kerr, John Henry Newman: A Biography (1989), David Brown, ed., Newman: A Man for Our Time (1990), and David Forrester, Young Doctor Pusey: A Study in Development (1989)).
"Queen Victoria," a review essay in Victorian Studies, Vol. 36 #3 (Spring 1993), pp. 377- 80 (based primarily on Giles St. Aubyn, Queen Victoria: A Portrait (1992), Theo Aronson, Heart of a Queen: Queen Victoria's Romantic Attachments (1991), and Agatha Ramm, ed., Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and Her Eldest Daughter, 1886-1901 (1990)).
"My Interview with Bertrand Russell," The American Scholar, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 123-29.
"Queen Victoria's Speeches from the Throne: A New Look," in Alan O'Day, ed., Government and Institutions in the Post-1832 United Kingdom (Lewiston, NY: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), pp. 127-153.
"Queen Victoria and the Challenge of Roman Catholicism," The Historian, Vol. 58 #2 (Winter 1996), pp. 295-314.
"Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee," The American Scholar, Vol. 66 #4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 591-97.
Three mini-essays: "The Merry-Go-Round," "World's Fair," and "Redrawing the Globe," in Imagining the Twentieth Century, eds. Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997).
"Queen Victoria" in ENCARTA (Microsoft Encyclopedia on the World Wide Web). 1998.
"The Warrior Queen: Reflections on Victoria and Her World," Albion, Vol. 30 #1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 1-28.
"Queen Victoria's Other Island," in Wm. Roger Louis, ed., More Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1998), pp. 45-65
"Queen Victoria and the United States," in Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership. Fred M. Leventhal and Roland Quinault, eds.(London: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 91-106.
Three entries: "Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty"; "Venezuela Boundary Dispute"; "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain" in Leonard G. Schlup and James G. Ryan, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (Armonk, N.Y: M. E. Sharpe, 2003).

Interview

Roger Adelson, "Interview with Walter L. Arnstein," The Historian, Vol. 57 #3 (Spring 1995), pp. 472-88. Reprinted in Roger Adelson, Speaking of History: Interviews with Historians (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997), pp. 1-20.

Festschrift

Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein, eds. Michael H. Shirley & Todd E.A. Larson (Aldershot, U.K., Burlington VT., USA, Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate, 2001).

Book Reviews

As of June 2003, reviews (not counting review essays listed above) of 144 books had been published in the following scholarly journals: Journal of Modern History (23); Victorian Studies (23); American Historical Review (16); The Historian (14); Journal of Social History (13); Albion (12); History: A Review of New Books (9); Religious Studies Review (4); Anglican & Episcopal History (4); Victorian Periodicals Review (3); Catholic Historical Review (3); Labor History (2); Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (2); History Teacher (2); other journals (14).

Personal

Place and Date of Birth: Stuttgart, Germany; May 14,1930
Immigrated to U.S. (1939)
U.S. Citizen (1944)
Married in 1952 to Charlotte Sutphen; two children (Sylvia and Peter); two
grandchildren
U.S. Army (Korea), 1951-1953