Dale Baum

Dale Baum
Born1943 (age 80–81)
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materGeorgetown University (BA)
University of Minnesota (MA, PhD)
ThesisThe Political World of Massachusetts Radicalism: Voting Behavior and Ideology in the Civil War Party System, 1854-1872 (1978)
Doctoral advisorGeorge D. Green
Kinley J. Brauer
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican Civil War, Reconstruction, political history, quantitative research
InstitutionsTexas A&M University

Dale Baum (born 1943) is an American historian and long time professor at Texas A&M University. He researches the political history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, Texas history, and quantitative research of historiography. Baum has authored three books, The Civil War Party System (1984), The Shattering of Texas Unionism (1998), and Counterfeit Justice (2009).