Dr. Mark H. Rose

Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th Century US
  • Urban, Business, Political, Social

Email: mrose@reelfreshfilms.com
Office Phone: (561) 297-4295

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Mark H. Rose is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught since 1990. Rose is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books. Rose is also the author or coauthor of more than forty articles in refereed journals including Business History Review (Cambridge University Press), the Journal of Urban History (Sage), the Journal of Planning History (Sage), and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. In addition, he has commented or presented papers at more than 100 historians’ meetings such as the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, the Business History Conference, and the Urban History Association. Rose was twice a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, once in the Department of History and once in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. In 2010, Rose was University Scholar of the Year. Mark was the founding and general editor of “Technology and Urban Growth,” an award-winning book series published by Temple University Press (nine books); and he was the founding editor and coeditor of “Business, Politics, and Society,” an award-winning book series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (eighteen books). Mark is a former president of the Business History Conference. More recently, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History and the Business History Conference chose Mark for their lifetime achievement awards (see below)

Refereed Books, Reports, and Awards

Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1941-1956 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1979) [cloth]

  • University Press of Kansas nominee, F.J. Turner award, 1980 competition
  • Selected by the editors of Choice as one of their Outstanding Academic Publicastions for 1979
  • Selected by the Public Works Historical Society Book Club for purchase by members, 1984

Energy and Transport: Historical Perspectives on Policy Issues (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982)
co-editor, with George H. Daniels [paper and cloth editions]

Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1939-1989, 2d. ed., rev. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990) [paper]; and with Raymond A. Mohl, Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939, 3d. ed., rev. (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2012) [paper]

http://www.amazon.com/Interstate-Highway-Politics-Policy-Since/dp/1572337257/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1T49M3PZ0MHWN&keywords=mohl+and+rose&qid=1661705583&sprefix=mohl+and+rose%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1

Cities of Light and Heat: The Domestication of Gas and Electricity in Urban America
(Penn State University Press, 1995) [cloth and paper]

http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Light-Heat-Domesticating-Electricity/dp/0271013494/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9CZUL7G5HGFM&keywords=rose%2C+cities+of+light+and+heat&qid=1661705548&sprefix=rose%2C+cities+of+light+and+heat%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1

The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2006) [cloth] (Senior Author, with Bruce E. Seely and Paul Barrett) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) [paper]

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Transportation-System-World-Railroads/dp/0812221168/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N1QXQ3IGM4DA&keywords=best+transportation+system+in+the+world&qid=1661705642&sprefix=best+transportation+system+in+the+world%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1

“The President and Transportation Policy: FDR to Obama,” in A Blueprint for Presidential Leadership, The David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference, Final Report, The Miller Center, University ofVirginia, November 2013 [A report prepared for President Barack Obama, Congress, and members of the transportation community focused on presidential leadership.]

http://millercenter.org/issues-policy/us-domestic-policy/a-blueprint-for-presidential-leadership

The President and American Capitalism since 1945, co-editor (with Roger Biles),
University Press of Florida (2017), and a lead essay in that volume, with Biles

http://www.amazon.com/President-American-Capitalism-Symposium-Presidency/dp/0813056527/ref=sr_1_1crid=30IOR41GBB32E&keywords=the+president+and+american+capitalism+since+1945&qid=1661705415&sprefix=the+president+and+american+capitalism+since+1945%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1

Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Coming of the Great Recession (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). –Finalist, Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History; Selected by Audible as an Audiobook

http://www.amazon.com/Market-Rules-Presidents-Recession-American-ebook/dp/B084Z2CCW9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=R7FOEZO6C2HW&keywords=rose%2C+market+rules&qid=1661705372&sprefix=rose%2C+market+rules%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1

A Good Place to do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945 (with Roger Biles),(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, October 2022)

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Place-Do-Business-Landscape/dp/1439920818/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34SXXB6C7OAJE&keywords=biles+and+rose%2C+a+good+place&qid=1661705316&sprefix=%2Caps%2C246&sr=8-1

“Left Behind in the Midwest: The Political Origins and Decline of an Industrial Region,” a book lengthmanuscript under contract with Temple University Press, due February 2026 (with Roger Biles) – contractawarded, due February 2026 (see ed. Aaron Javsicas’ email as part of Narrative)

Lifetime Achievement Awards

http://thebhc.org/lifetime

http://sacrph.org/2023-awards-2#gerckens

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

American Politics since 1750
Urban History of the United States
The 1960s
Shopping, Travel, and Leisure in Twentieth Century America
American Capitalism since 1890


Graduate Courses

Seminar in American History
Prepared October 31, 2019

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)