History & Art History

Paula Petrik received her Ph.D. from SUNY-Binghamton (1982) and MFA from the University of Montana (1973). She is the author of No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (Montana Historical Society, 1987, 1990), co-editor (with Elliott West) of Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950 (University of Kansas, 1992), and co-author with Kelly Woestman of @history, a CD-ROM (Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to the United Kingdom, an NEH Fellowship, an Apple Computer Faculty Internship, and a Smithsonian Fellowship, among others, she has published articles on women in the American West, the U.S. toy industry, and digital history. She has taught courses in U.S. trans-Mississippi West, U.S. business history, and digital history. Her current projects involve the history of the U.S. toy industry and the digital reconstruction of historical landscapes.

Nineteenth-century U.S. social, trans-Mississippi West, business and economic