Dr Daniel Scroop

  • Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Citizenship (History)

telephone: 01413303695
email: Daniel.Scroop@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 405, 1 University Gardens, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729

Research interests

Office hours: Mondays 4-5pm, Tuesdays 10-11am (Room 401 in 10 University Gardens)

I joined the History subject area in 2013. I studied Modern History at St. Anne's College, Oxford, where I gained my BA (1995) and D.Phil. (2001), and took an MA in Social History at the University of Lancaster (1996). Before moving to Glasgow, I held permanent lectureships at the University of Sheffield (2007-13) and the University of Liverpool (2003-7) and enjoyed shorter spells at the University of Bangor (2002-3) and the University of Cambridge (2001-2).

My main field is the history of the United States since 1877. I am interested in the character and ideological contours of US politics and have explored this extensively in my work on the New Deal, populism, progressivism, and the politics of consumption. In recent work I have branched out in the directions of transnational and comparative history. For example, a new essay on transnational populism -- featuring the travels of William Jennings Bryan and Robert M. La Follette Sr. -- will appear in 'Transatlantic Social Politics', a book of essays I have edited with my former Sheffield colleague Andrew Heath. It will be published in December 2014 as part of Palgrave USA's new book series, Studies in Democratic Culture, which I co-edit. My major current project is a book on 'the politics of scale' in US history. This is a study of how American politics adapted to the scale and complexity of modern life across the twentieth century. 

Publications

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2025

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2025) William E. Leuchtenburg: the professional as public historian. USAbroad: Journal of American History and Politics, 8, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.6092/issn.2611-2752/20399)

2020

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2020) Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country. By Arnold A. Offner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). Journal of American History, 106(4), pp. 1091-1092. (doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaz766)[Book Review]

2019

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2019) Middle Class Union: Organizing the "Consuming Public" in Post-World War I America. Journal of Social History, 52(4), pp. 1437-1438. (doi: 10.1093/jsh/shx141)[Book Review]

2018

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2018) A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940. Journal of American History, 104(4), pp. 1057-1058. (doi: 10.1093/jahist/jax511)[Book Review]

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2018) Antimonopoly in American Politics, 1945-2000. In: Butler, Jon (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199329175 (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.405)

2017

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Calvin Coolidge. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Herbert Hoover. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) New Deal. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Warren Harding. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

2016

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2016) Greening the Red, White, and Blue: The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America. By Thomas Jundt. Oxford University Press. 2014. xii + 306pp. $34.95. History, 101(347), pp. 649-651. (doi: 10.1111/1468-229X.12268)[Book Review]

2014

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2014) In search of a populist atlantic: the transatlantic travels of William Jennings Bryan and Robert M. La Follette Jr. In: Scroop, Daniel and Heath, Andrew (eds.) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800 to Present. Series: Studies in democratic culture. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 105-128. ISBN 9781137470959

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Heath, Andrew (2014) Introduction. In: Scroop, Daniel and Heath, Andrew (eds.) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800 to Present. Series: Studies in democratic culture. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781137470959

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Heath, Andrew (Eds.) (2014) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800-Present. Series: Studies in Democratic Culture. Palgrave MacMillan: New York, NY. ISBN 9781137470959

2013

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) What Obama won't say about Martin Luther King. University of Glasgow Website,

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) William Jennings Bryan's 1905-6 world tour. Historical Journal, 56(2), pp. 459-486. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X12000520)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) Franklin D Roosevelt should be today's role model. Scotsman, 2013(4 Mar),

2012

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2012) A life in progress: motion and emotion in the autobiography of Robert M. La Follette. American Nineteenth Century History, 13(1), pp. 45-64. (doi: 10.1080/14664658.2012.681944)

2011

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2011) Good things? Thought on democratic culture and political engagement in American history [blog post]. Comparative History of Political Engagement in Western and African Societies, 2011(5 May),

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2011) The Great Depression. In: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. SAGE, pp. 692-693. ISBN 9780872896017

2010

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2010) Review of: Lawrence B. Glickman, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. Journal of American History, 97(3), p. 774. [Book Review]

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2010) Review of: P.V. Dutton, Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. French History, 24(2), pp. 302-304. (doi: 10.1093/fh/crq020)[Book Review]

2008

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) The anti-chain store movement and the politics of consumption. American Quarterly, 60(4), pp. 925-949. (doi: 10.1353/aq.0.0047)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) Local and national identities in the politics of consumption: the anti-chain store movement reconsidered. History Compass, 6(3), pp. 947-968. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00524.x)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) Review of: C.O. Jones, The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction and L.S. Maisel, American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction. Safundi, 9(3), pp. 364-366. (doi: 10.1080/17533170802173022)[Book Review]

2007

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2007) Review of: A. Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Journal of American Studies, 41(3), pp. 690-691. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875807004148)[Book Review]

Scroop, D. (2007) Consuming Visions: New Essays on the Politics of Consumption in Modern America. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK. ISBN 9781847183385

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2007) A faded passion? Estes Kefauver and the senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly. Busines and Economic History On-Line, 5,

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Reynolds, J. (2007) Walter Lippmann. In: Dictionary of liberal thought. Methuen/Politico's: London, UK, pp. 238-240. ISBN 9781842751671

2006

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2006) Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ISBN 9780472099306

2002

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2002) September 11 , Pearl Harbor, and the uses of presidential power. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 15(2), pp. 317-327.

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Articles

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2025) William E. Leuchtenburg: the professional as public historian. USAbroad: Journal of American History and Politics, 8, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.6092/issn.2611-2752/20399)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) What Obama won't say about Martin Luther King. University of Glasgow Website,

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) William Jennings Bryan's 1905-6 world tour. Historical Journal, 56(2), pp. 459-486. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X12000520)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2013) Franklin D Roosevelt should be today's role model. Scotsman, 2013(4 Mar),

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2012) A life in progress: motion and emotion in the autobiography of Robert M. La Follette. American Nineteenth Century History, 13(1), pp. 45-64. (doi: 10.1080/14664658.2012.681944)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2011) Good things? Thought on democratic culture and political engagement in American history [blog post]. Comparative History of Political Engagement in Western and African Societies, 2011(5 May),

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) The anti-chain store movement and the politics of consumption. American Quarterly, 60(4), pp. 925-949. (doi: 10.1353/aq.0.0047)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) Local and national identities in the politics of consumption: the anti-chain store movement reconsidered. History Compass, 6(3), pp. 947-968. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00524.x)

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2007) A faded passion? Estes Kefauver and the senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly. Busines and Economic History On-Line, 5,

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2002) September 11 , Pearl Harbor, and the uses of presidential power. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 15(2), pp. 317-327.

Books

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2006) Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ISBN 9780472099306

Book Sections

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2018) Antimonopoly in American Politics, 1945-2000. In: Butler, Jon (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199329175 (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.405)

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Calvin Coolidge. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Herbert Hoover. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) New Deal. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2017) Warren Harding. In: Cook, Chris and Stevenson, John (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511842740

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2014) In search of a populist atlantic: the transatlantic travels of William Jennings Bryan and Robert M. La Follette Jr. In: Scroop, Daniel and Heath, Andrew (eds.) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800 to Present. Series: Studies in democratic culture. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 105-128. ISBN 9781137470959

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Heath, Andrew (2014) Introduction. In: Scroop, Daniel and Heath, Andrew (eds.) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800 to Present. Series: Studies in democratic culture. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781137470959

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2011) The Great Depression. In: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. SAGE, pp. 692-693. ISBN 9780872896017

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Reynolds, J. (2007) Walter Lippmann. In: Dictionary of liberal thought. Methuen/Politico's: London, UK, pp. 238-240. ISBN 9781842751671

Book Reviews

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2020) Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country. By Arnold A. Offner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). Journal of American History, 106(4), pp. 1091-1092. (doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaz766)[Book Review]

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2019) Middle Class Union: Organizing the "Consuming Public" in Post-World War I America. Journal of Social History, 52(4), pp. 1437-1438. (doi: 10.1093/jsh/shx141)[Book Review]

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2018) A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940. Journal of American History, 104(4), pp. 1057-1058. (doi: 10.1093/jahist/jax511)[Book Review]

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2016) Greening the Red, White, and Blue: The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America. By Thomas Jundt. Oxford University Press. 2014. xii + 306pp. $34.95. History, 101(347), pp. 649-651. (doi: 10.1111/1468-229X.12268)[Book Review]

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2010) Review of: Lawrence B. Glickman, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. Journal of American History, 97(3), p. 774. [Book Review]

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2010) Review of: P.V. Dutton, Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. French History, 24(2), pp. 302-304. (doi: 10.1093/fh/crq020)[Book Review]

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2008) Review of: C.O. Jones, The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction and L.S. Maisel, American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction. Safundi, 9(3), pp. 364-366. (doi: 10.1080/17533170802173022)[Book Review]

Scroop, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 (2007) Review of: A. Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Journal of American Studies, 41(3), pp. 690-691. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875807004148)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Scroop, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-4729 and Heath, Andrew (Eds.) (2014) Transatlantic Social Politics: 1800-Present. Series: Studies in Democratic Culture. Palgrave MacMillan: New York, NY. ISBN 9781137470959

Scroop, D. (2007) Consuming Visions: New Essays on the Politics of Consumption in Modern America. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK. ISBN 9781847183385

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 17:49:53 2025 BST.

Grants

  • 2011 AHRC Research Fellowship (Feb-Nov 2012) 'Small Dealers and Worthy Men: The Politics of Scale from Bryan to Nader' £34,000
  • 2011 Santander Research Mobility Award, 'Transatlantic Social Politics' £840
  • 2010 British Academy Small Research Grant, 'Small Dealers and Worthy Men: The Politics of Scale from Bryan to Nader' £4115
  • 2010 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts Research and Innovation Award, 'The Politics of Scale in American History' £1400
  • 2010 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts HEIF Award, 'Anglo-American Democratic Culture' £2721
  • 2009 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts Research and Innovation Award, Anglo-American Democratic Culture Since 1600 £1700
  • 2009 Constance M. Rourke Prize (American Studies Association)
  • 2009 Arthur Miller Centre Prize (British Association for American Studies)
  • 2006 Herbert Hoover Presidential Library research grant
  • 2004 Rivkin Research Fellowship, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
  • 2002 Moody Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library

Supervision

  • Eleanor Capper, 'Caroline Ware and the politics of women and consumerism in the United States, 1932-1968', University of Liverpool, PhD 2009
  • Thomas Keep, 'Harcourt A. Morgan's Common Mooring', University of Sheffield, PhD 2014
  • Chris Olewicz, ‘Constructing Leviathan: Studies on the Left and the Rise of Corporate Liberalism 1959-1979', University of Sheffield (in progress)

Currently supervising

  • Rebecca Dunbar, 'American Women's Fiction of the 1930s' (AHRC Block Grant, starting Sept. 2014)
  • Banks, Susie
    Millennial Mythologies: American Memory, Imagination, and Cr
  • Moore, Casey
    Archiving oral histories in the wake of 21st century mass shootings

Teaching

Pre-honours courses

  • Society, Culture and Politics in North America

Honours courses

  • People of Plenty: The Politics of Consumption in Modern America Age of the New Deal: The United States in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Special Subject)

Postgraduate courses

  • American Studies Core Course A
  • Public Humanities

Additional information


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