"If we make no attempt to understand those roots - and until we recognize that those radicals behind Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma bombing and the Republic of Texas are not a new phenomenon - today's history may be tomorrow's tragedy."

• Rural radicalism, domestic terrorism
• Social, cultural and political history of the United States, 1877 to present, including the American West
• Rural America
• The Great Depression and the New Deal

Professor Stock is a professor of history at Connecticut College as well as the program director for American Studies.

She is the author of Rural Radicalism (Penguin, 1997). She is also the author of Main Street Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains, plus the introduction to Dakota Territory, 1861-1889: A Study of Frontier Politics, by Howard Roberts Lamar.

She has written numerous sections for The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West and has written book reviews for Journal of American History and American Historical Review.

Stock is a member of the American Historical Association, American Studies Association, New England American Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, and the Western History Association.

View the history department site and the American Studies program site.