Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler
Earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Kent State University, Ron Hatzenbuehler taught at ISU from 1972 until his retirement in 2013 (emeritus professor, 2014). His books include: Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership and Partisanship in the Early Republic (1983 [with Robert L. Ivie]); ‘I Tremble for My Country’: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry (2006) and Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation (2016). In 1994, he was honored as ISU’s Distinguished Teacher, and in 2008 he received the Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award, given annually by the Idaho Humanities Council. He lives in Pocatello, Idaho, with his wife Linda.