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==Background==
==Background==
In 1969, Wolff received his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Iowa]] in Iowa City and thereafter joined the USD faculty, at which he remained until his retirement. 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.usd.edu/content.php?catoid=3&navoid=31|title=Catalog: Faculty|publisher=catalog.usd.edu|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref> His doctoral dissertation is a study of the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] of 1854, pushed to passage in the [[United States Senate]] by [[Stephen A. Douglas]] of [[Illinois]]. The act gave birth to the modern [[Republican Party]], which was established to halt the spread of [[slavery]] in to the territories of the United States. In 1972, Wolf used his dissertation as the basis for his article, "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill," published in ''Civil War History.''<ref>Gerald W. Wolff, "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill," ''Civil War History 18 (December 1972), pp. 293-311.</ref> In 1977, he turned his dissertation into the book entitled ''The Kansas-Nebraska Bill: Party, Section, and the Coming of the Civil War.''<ref>Gerald W. Wolff, "The Kansas-Nebraska Bill: Party, Section, and the Coming of the Civil War,'' ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]: Revisionist Press, 1977), 385 pp.</ref>
In 1969, Wolff received his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Iowa]] in Iowa City and thereafter joined the USD faculty, at which he remained until his retirement. 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.usd.edu/content.php?catoid=3&navoid=31|title=Catalog: Faculty|publisher=catalog.usd.edu|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>
His doctoral dissertation is a study of the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] of 1854, pushed to passage in the [[United States Senate]] by [[Stephen A. Douglas]] of [[Illinois]]. The act gave birth to the modern [[Republican Party]], which was established to halt the spread of [[slavery]] in to the territories of the United States. In 1972, Wolf used his dissertation as the basis for his article, "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill," published in ''Civil War History.''<ref>Gerald W. Wolff, "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill," ''Civil War History 18 (December 1972), pp. 293-311.</ref> In 1977, he turned his dissertation into the book entitled ''The Kansas-Nebraska Bill: Party, Section, and the Coming of the Civil War.''<ref>Gerald W. Wolff, "The Kansas-Nebraska Bill: Party, Section, and the Coming of the Civil War,'' ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]: Revisionist Press, 1977), 385 pp.</ref>
==Scholarly pursuits==
==Scholarly pursuits==