Ralph Mann

Ralph Mann earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1970. His dissertation was titled, "The Social and Political Structure of Two California Mining Towns, 1850 - 1870".

Dr. Mann began his academic teaching career at the University of California, San Diego before coming to the University of Colorado Boulder full time (1973-2013). His research focused on subsistence and Civil War in the Appalachian South. Issues central to this research: gender and farming, hunting and animals, guerrilla warfare and neighborhoods, the coming of mining and timbering, and the rise of a Progressive leadership. Questions of historical memory in a subliterate Appalachian society are also relevant. He also created a project on Appalachian hunters and folkloric images of animals.

Among his literary contributions, Dr. Mann authored, After the Gold Rush: Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849-1870.Stanford University Press, 1982.