August 2001
College
Address:
Pitzer
Hall
Claremont
McKenna College
850
Columbia Avenue
Claremont,
CA 91711
(909)
607-2931
(909)
621-8419 (FAX)
email:
clofgren@mckenna.edu
Home
Address:
1934
Rosemount Avenue
Claremont,
CA 91711
Education:
Stanford
University: A.B. with Great
Distinction, 1961; A.M., 1962; Ph.D., 1966
(major field: American History).
Academic
and Administrative Positions:
Roy P.
Crocker Professor of American History and Politics, Claremont McKenna College,
1976-present.
Graduate
Faculty in History of the Claremont Colleges, 1967-present.
Chairman,
Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College, 1984- 1986, 1988-1990.
Chairman,
Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, 1970-1973, 1976-1980.
Associate
Professor of American History, Claremont McKenna College, 1971-1976.
Visiting
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University, 1968-1969.
Assistant
Professor of American History, Claremont McKenna College, 1966-1971 (tenured,
1969).
Instructor
in History, San Jose State College, 1965-1966.
Academic
Areas:
United
States Constitutional History and Law.
Recent
American Political History.
General
American History.
American
Government.
Current
Research:
The
constitutional history of the war-making power.
The
constitutional law of race in late nineteenth-century America.
Publications:
Books,
Chapters, and Articles:
Claremont
Pioneers: The Founding of CMC (Gould Center, Claremont
McKenna College, Claremont, CA., 1996).
"Interpreting
the Fourteenth Amendment: Slaughter-House and Plessy," in
Terry Eastland, editor., Benchmarks: Great Constitutional Controversies in
the Supreme Court (Center for Ethics and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.,
1995), pp. 13-44.
"The
Original Understanding of Original Intent?" Constitutional Commentary,
V (1988), 77-113. Reprinted in Jack N.
Rakove, editor, Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate Over Original
Intent (Northeastern University Press, 1990).
"War
Powers, Treaties, and The Constitution," in Leonard Levy and Dennis
Mahoney, editors, The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution
(Macmillan, 1987), pp. 242-258.
The
Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
(Oxford University Press, 1987; paperback, 1988).
"On
War-Making, Original Intent, and Ultra-Whiggery," Valparaiso University
Law Review, XXI (1986), 53-68. [Invited critique of the issue's lead
article, "'Once More Unto the Breach': The War Powers Resolution
Revisited," by Eugene V. Rostow.]
"Government
from Reflection and Choice": Constitutional Essays on War, Foreign
Relations, and Federalism (Oxford University Press, 1986).
"`To
Regulate Commerce': Federal Power Under the Constitution," this
Constitution, Spring 1986, pp. 1-11.
Reprinted in this Constitution: Our Enduring Legacy (pub. by
Cong. Quarterly for the Amer. Hist. Assoc. and the Amer. Pol. Sci. Assoc.,
1986).
"The
Origins of the Tenth Amendment: History, Sovereignty, and the Problem of
Constitutional Intention," in Ronald Collins, editor, Constitutional
Government in America (Carolina Academic Press, 1980), pp. 331-357.
"National
League of Cities v. Usery: Dual Federalism Reborn," Claremont
Journal of Public Affairs, IV (1977), 19-34.
"Compulsory
Military Service Under the Constitution: The Original Understanding," William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, XXXIII (January 1976), 61-88.
"Missouri
v. Holland in Historical Perspective," 1975 Supreme Court Review,
pp. 77-122.
"United
States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation: An Historical
Reassessment," Yale Law Journal, LXXXIII (1973), 1-32.
"War-Making
Under the Constitution: The Original Understanding," Yale Law Journal,
LXXXI (1972), 672-702. Reprinted in
Richard Falk, editor, The Vietnam War and International Law, vol. 4
(Princeton University Press, 1976).
"Presuppositions
and the Problem of Strategic Change," Policy Sciences, II (1971),
413-424.
"Mr.
Truman's War: A [Constitutional] Debate and Its Aftermath," Review of
Politics, XXXI (1969), 223-241.
"Force
and Diplomacy, 1846-1848: The View from Washington," Military Affairs,
XXXI (1967), 57-64.
"How
New Is Limited War?" Military Review, July 1967, pp. 16-23.
Short
Articles, Comments, Review Essays, and Reviews:
Review
of Alexander DeConde, Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military
Intervention, and Foreign Relations (Northeastern Univ. Press, 1999), The
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 31 (Spring 2001), 658-659 .
Review
of Joseph M. Lynch, Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over
Original Intent (Cornell Univ. Press, 1999), The Journal of American
History, vol. 87 (December 2000), 1018-1019.
Review
of Daniel N. Hoffman, Our Elusive Constitution: Silences, Paradoxes,
Priorities (St. Univ. of N.Y. Press, 1997), in The Journal of American
History, vol. 85 (March 1999), 1581.
Review
of Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of
the Constitution, in Journal of Southern History, vol. 63 (August
1997), 640-41.
Review
of Mark Whitman, editor, "Removing a Badge of Slavery": The Record
of Brown v. Board of Education, in Journal of Southern History, LX
(1994), 619-620.
Review
of Donald W. Jackson, Even the Children of Strangers: Equality under the
U.S. Constitution, in Journal of Southern History, LX (1994),
153-154.
Review
of Loren Beth, John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice, in Journal
of Southern History, LIX (1993), 577-578.
"Madisonian
Limitations," [Review Essay on Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and
the Limits of American Constitutionalism:
The Madisonian Framework and Its Legacy,] in Reviews in American
History, 20 (1992), 21-29.
Short
articles on "The Vietnam War" and "The War Powers" in Leonard
Levy and Kenneth Karst, editors, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution,
first supplemental volume (Macmillan, 1992).
Review
Essay on Christopher May, In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War
Powers Since 1919, in Constitutional Commentary, VI (Winter 1990),
1201-1211.
Review
of Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim
Crow, in American Journal of Legal History, XXIV (1990), 320-322.
"Constitutive
Conversation or Desperate Discourse?" [Review Essay on Sanford Levinson, Constitutional
Faith,] in Reviews in American History, XVII (September 1989),
346-351.
Comment
on William Wiecek, "Uses of History by the United States Supreme
Court," in California Western Law Review, XXIV (1987-88), 269- 272.
Review
Essay on Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, To Chain the Dog of War:
The War Power of Congress in History and Law, in Constitutional
Commentary, V (1988), 247-256.
Contributor
to Symposium, "Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?" Constitutional
Commentary, V (1988), 32-35.
Review
Essay on David Currie, The Constitution in the Supreme Court...1789-1888,
in Constitutional Commentary, IV (1987), 177-185.
Short
articles on "The Korean War," "Missouri v. Holland,"
"National League of Cities v. Usery," "United States
v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation," and "The War Powers,"
in Leonard Levy, Kenneth Karst, and Dennis Mahoney, editors, Encyclopedia of
the American Constitution (4 vols., Macmillan, 1986).
Review
Essay on E.S. Corwin, The President: Office and Powers (5th edition),
Kenneth Crews, Edward S. Corwin and the American Constitution, and Louis
Fisher, Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President, in Constitutional
Commentary, III (1986), 193-203.
Review
of Paul Finkelman, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity,
in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, July 1982, pp. 116-118.
Review
of William W. Crosskey and William Jeffrey, Jr., Politics and the
Constitution, vol. 3, in Political Science Quarterly, XCVI (1981),
505-507.
Comment
on Raoul Berger, "Executive Privilege in Light of United States v.
Nixon," Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, IX (1975), 52-56.
Organizations:
American
Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; The Historical
Society; American Society for Legal History; American Association of University
Professors; National Association of Scholars; Phi Beta Kappa.
Miscellaneous:
United
States Citizen.
U.S.
Army Reserve, 1957-1963 (Honorable Discharge as Sergeant, E-5).
Amateur
radio operator (FCC Amateur Extra Class license, W6JJZ), with various
publications on antenna design and related topics.