# overview
Dr. Rouleau's research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century United States history, the Atlantic world, American foreign relations, and more recent efforts to internationalize our study of the past. His first book, With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire, examines encounters between sailors from the United States and peoples overseas during the nineteenth century. Rouleau's current research, for a book tentatively titled Empire's Children: Youth Culture and the Long Nineteenth Century's Expansionist Impulse, explores connections between young people and imperialistic policy in several settler colonial societies.

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University of California, San Diego - (San Diego, California, United States)

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University of Pennsylvania - (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Honorable Mention for the David Montgomery Award

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With sails whitening every sea: Mariners and the making of an American maritime empire

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How Honolulu Almost Burned and Why Sailors Matter to Early American Foreign Relations

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Childhood's Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer's Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire1

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Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny: American Commercial Expansionism and the Idea of the Indian

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"In Praise of Trash": Series Fiction Fan Mail and the Challenges of Children's Devotion

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In the Wake of Jim Crow: Maritime Minstrelsy Along the Transoceanic Frontier

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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Folklore, Fraternity, and the Forecastle

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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Arts & Humanities Fellows Program Presents Series Of Animated Shorts

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Incorporating Liberal Arts Into Your Child's Education