John Day Tully

Assistant Professor of History
Social Studies Coordinator

Department of History
206 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Phone: (860) 832-2812
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: tullyj@ccsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: American Foreign Relations, 20th-century U.S., Modern Ireland, Social Studies Education

John Day Tully received his B.A. in economics from Boston University in 1989 and his M.A. in history from Central Connecticut State University in 1995. From 1998 until 2004, he was the founding director of the Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. in history at Ohio State and joined the faculty of CCSU as an assistant professor and as the department’s social studies coordinator.

Dr. Tully’s teaching interests include American Foreign Relations, modern America, and modern Ireland. He also teaches the Methods of Social Studies at the Secondary Level class as part of the professional education program. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled "Identities and Distortions: Ireland and Irish Americans during World War II." He is also writing a chapter on public diplomacy and preparing an essay on the the Gulf War and the first Bush administration. He is the Academic Director of HISTORY IS CENTRAL, a Teaching American History grant.

He has presented his research at meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the Organization of American Historians, and the Transatlantic Studies Association, among others. He has also given papers and presentations on the scholarship of teaching at national and international conferences. Since 2002, he has served as a faculty consultant for the Advanced Placement Examination in U.S. history.

For more information on the history/social studies secondary education program, click here.

Professor Tully also maintains an individual web page.

Selected publications:

• “The Foreign Policy of Ronald Reagan,” Retrieving the American Past: A U.S. History Reader (Boston: Pearson), forthcoming.
• Book review of Michael Hart, Mick: The Real Michael Collins (New York: Viking Press, 2006) for The History Teacher, forthcoming.
• "Memory and the Vietnam War," Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, forthcoming
• "Globalization and a Wal-Mart World: The Documents," Connecticut History 45 (Fall 2006): 278-85.
• "‘Against the Tide: The Unfortunate Life of Steamboat Inventor John Fitch’ in the Social Studies/History Classroom," Connecticut History 44 (Spring 2005): 122-25.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis: History, Memory, and a Hot Spot in the Cold War (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000). (Internet coursepack)
• The Iran-Contra Scandals: National Security Archive Sources (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000). (Internet coursepack)