{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:32:58","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-david-smith\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Books Since 2002<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Editor<em>, New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky<\/em>. <em>\u00a0<\/em>Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Editor<em>, <\/em><em>Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen<\/em> by John Eaton (1907).\u00a0 Knoxville:\u00a0 University of Tennessee Press, 2022 (with Micheal J. Larson).<\/li>\n<li>Editor<em>, The Long Civil War:\u00a0 New Explorations of America\u2019s Enduring Conflict<\/em>. <em>\u00a0<\/em>Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2021 (with Raymond Arsenault).<\/li>\n<li><em>Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and<\/em> The American Negro. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000; Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002; third edition with a New Preface, University of Georgia Press, 2019, pp. ix-xxix.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,<em> Dear Delia:\u00a0 The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh\u00a0Wisconsin Infantry. \u00a0<\/em>Madison:\u00a0 University of Wisconsin Press, 2019 (with Micheal J. Larson).<\/li>\n<li>Editor, <em>Interpreting American History: \u00a0Reconstruction<\/em>. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><i>We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: \u00a0Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865\u20131877.\u00a0 <\/i>Amherst:\u00a0 University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><i>Soldiering For Freedom:\u00a0 How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops.\u00a0 <\/i>Baltimore:\u00a0 Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 (with Bob Luke).<\/li>\n<li><em>Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Carbondale:\u00a0Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>Race and Recruitment: <\/em>Civil War History<em> Readers, Volume 2.<\/em>\u00a0 Kent: Kent State University Press, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>The Dunning School: Historians, Race,\u00a0and the Meaning of Reconstruction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2013 (with J. Vincent Lowery).<\/li>\n<li>Editor,<em>\u00a0A Just and Lasting Peace:\u00a0 A Documentary History of Reconstruction<em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/em>New York:\u00a0 Signet Classics\/New American Library\/Penguin, 2013<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seeing the New South: Race and Place in the Photographs of Ulrich B. Phillips.<\/em>\u00a0 Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013 (with Patricia B. Bixel).<\/li>\n<li>Guest Editor,<em> New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Register of the Kentucky Historical Society <\/em>110 nos. 3&amp;4 (Summer\/Autumn 2012):\u00a0 231-647.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourg\u00e9e.<\/em>\u00a0Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010 (with Mark Elliott).<\/li>\n<li><em>An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918,<\/em>\u00a0third edition with a New Preface. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History<\/em>\u00a0by Charles P. Roland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>The Flaming Sword<\/em>\u00a0by Thomas Dixon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>The Negro in the American Rebellion<\/em>\u00a0by William Wells Brown<em>.<\/em>\u00a0Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>My Bondage and My Freedom<\/em>\u00a0by Frederick Douglass. New York and London: Penguin Classics, 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Editor,\u00a0<em>Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Review Essays since 2002<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c\u2018This incredibly fast upswing of the American Negroes\u2019:\u00a0 \u2018Felix von Luschan\u2019s Die Neger in den Vereinigten Staaten\u2019 (1915).\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, <\/em>Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 15, ed. Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach.\u00a0 (Lincoln:\u00a0 University of Nebraska Press, 2025), 73-98 (with Sylvia Angelica Smith).<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018The greatest event of the Twentieth Century so far\u2019:\u00a0 The First Universal Races Congress and its Meaning Today.\u201d\u00a0 <em>The Midwest Quarterly:\u00a0\u00a0A Journal of Contemporary Thought\u00a0<\/em>63, no. 3 (Spring 2022):\u00a0 217-26.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Something About Eaton Won Lincoln&#8217;s Trust.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>The Lincoln Forum Bulletin<\/em>, no. 51 (Spring 2022), 9, 11 (with Micheal J. Larson).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEditing the Letters of a Midwesterner in the Civil War:\u00a0 The Making and Meaning of <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Dear Delia<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Ohio Valley History <\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">19 (Winter 2019):\u00a0 72-87 (with Micheal J. Larson).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">\u201c\u2018Like the baseless fabric of a vision\u2019:\u00a0 Thad Stevens and Confiscation Reconsidered.\u201d In <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, ed. John Quist, Randall M. Miller, and Michael Birkner (Baton Rouge:\u00a0 Louisiana State University Press, 2019), pp. 185-214.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">&#8220;Faculty Picks.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Choice<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> (January 2019): http:\/\/www.choice360.org\/blog\/faculty-picks-january-2019 .<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cGlory:\u00a0 \u2018heroism writ large, from people whom history had made small.\u2019\u201d In <em>Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America<\/em>, ed. John C. Inscoe and Matthew C. Hulbert (Baton Rouge: \u00a0Louisiana State University Press, 2019), pp. 162-71.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Civil War Book Review<\/em>\u00a020, no. 2 (Spring 2018):\u00a0 Article 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.lsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3275&amp;context=cwbr\">https:\/\/digitalcommons.lsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3275&amp;context=cwbr<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Stern Champion of the Human Race, of Man as Human&#8217;: \u00a0Alexander F. Chamberlain and Reform in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Journal of American Studies <\/em>51 (August 2017): \u00a0833-64.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReview Essay: \u00a0America\u2019s Western Middle Border Region and Its Inner Civil Wars.\u201d <em>Ohio Valley History <\/em>16\u00a0(Winter 2016): 64-68.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;As firmly linked to &#8216;Africanus&#8217; as was that of the celebrated Scipio&#8217;:\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops.&#8221;\u00a0 In <em>Democracy and the<\/em>\u00a0<em>American Civil War:\u00a0 Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>, ed. Kevin Adams and Leonne Hudson.\u00a0 Kent:\u00a0 Kent State University Press, 2016, pp. 27-46.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReview Essay: \u00a0Probate Law and Proslavery Religious Polemics in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky.\u201d <em>Ohio Valley History <\/em>14<em>\u00a0<\/em>(Winter 2014):\u00a0 75-81.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFinding &#8216;<i>pax plantation&#8217;<\/i> at Camp Gordon, Georgia:\u00a0 Historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and World War I.\u201d <i>Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era <\/i>13<i>\u00a0<\/i>(October 2014):\u00a0 564-99.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat Did the Civil War Smell Like?\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, October 17, 2014, p. B16, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Book-Review-States-of-Decay\/149257\/\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Book-Review-States-of-Decay\/149257\/<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhither Kentucky Civil War and Reconstruction Scholarship?\u201d <i>Register of the Kentucky Historical Society <\/i>112<i> <\/i>(Spring 2014):\u00a0 223-47.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Introduction.&#8221; In Charles S. Sydnor, <em>Slavery in Mississippi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Columbia:\u00a0 University of South Carolina Press, 2013, pp. xi-xxxix.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTwo\u00a0 Stellar Reference Books on Slavery.\u201d <em>Slavery &amp; Abolition<\/em> 34 (March 2013):\u00a0 166-72.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018I was raised poor and hard as any slave\u2019:\u00a0 African American Slavery in Piedmont North Carolina.\u201d <em>North Carolina Historical Review<\/em> 90 (January 2013):\u00a0 1-25.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIntroduction to the Fordham University Press Edition.\u201d\u00a0 In George Washington Williams, <em>A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865<\/em>.\u00a0 The Bronx: \u00a0Fordham University Press, 2012, pp.\u00a0ix-xxxvi.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cContinuity v. Discontinuity Redux:\u00a0 Life, Labor and Law in Jim Crow-Era Mississippi.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<em>Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era <\/em>11 (July 2012):\u00a0 445-51.<\/li>\n<li>Albion W. Tourg\u00e9e in North Carolina Historiography and Historical Memory.\u201d <em>Carolina Comments<\/em> 60 (January 2012):\u00a0 29-33.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Study of Slavery at the Johns Hopkins University, 1889-1914.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Maryland Historical Magazine<\/em> 106 (Fall 2011):\u00a0 316-43.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCivil War History:\u00a0 An Intervention.\u201d <em>The<\/em> <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, June 19, 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Civil-War-History-an\/127926\/\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Civil-War-History-an\/127926\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTransatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and \u2018the other\u2019:\u00a0 Felix von Luschan\u2019s Research in America, 1914-15.\u201d In <em>Racism in the Modern World:\u00a0 Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation<\/em>, ed. Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Berghahn Books, 2011, pp. 140-62.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cU.B. Phillips, the North Carolina State Literary and Historical Association, and the Course of the South to Secession.\u201d <em>North Carolina Historical Review <\/em>87 (July 2010):\u00a0 253-82.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReview Essay:\u00a0 \u2019The World Never Saw Such a War\u2019:\u00a0 How Civil War Deaths Brought Life to the Union.\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<em>North Carolina Historical Review <\/em>86 (October 2009):\u00a0 437-44.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018I would like to study some Problems of Heredity\u2019:\u00a0 Felix von Luschan\u2019s Trip to America, 1914-1915.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Felix von Luschan (1854\u20131924):\u00a0 Leben und Wirken eines Universalgelehrten<\/em>, ed. \u00a0Peter Ruggendorfer and Hubert D. Szemethy.\u00a0 Wien:\u00a0 B\u00f6hlau Verlag Wien, 2009, pp. 141-63.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Gentlemen, I too, am a Kentuckian\u2019:\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Bicentennial, and Lincoln\u2019s Kentucky in Recent Scholarship.\u201d <em>Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<\/em> 106 nos. 3 &amp; 4 (Summer\/Autumn 2008):\u00a0 433-70.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cKeeping Your Promises?\u00a0 African Americans, Contingency, and Lincoln\u2019s America.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Lincoln Lore<\/em>, no. 1893 (Summer 2008):\u00a0 2-7.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIntroduction.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Life and Labor in the Old South<\/em> by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips.\u00a0 Columbia:\u00a0 University of South Carolina Press, 2007, pp. xvii-lv.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2019Not as this chile knows of\u2019:\u00a0 Myth and Reality in the Black Confederates Thesis.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Lincoln Lore<\/em>, no. 1889 (Summer 2007):\u00a0 5-10.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Evil That Americans Did.\u201d\u00a0 <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, March 9, 2007, B9.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHigh Authority or Failed Prophet?\u00a0 Alfred Holt\u00a0 Stone and Racial Thought in Jim Crow America.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Journal of Mississippi History <\/em>68 (Fall 2006):\u00a0 195-211.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018My books are hard reading for a Negro\u2019:\u00a0 Tom Dixon and his African American Critics, 1905-1939.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Making of Modern America<\/em>, ed. Michele Gillespie and Randal L. Hall.\u00a0 Baton Rouge:\u00a0 Louisiana State University Press, 2006, pp. 46-79.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<\/span>New Introduction to the University Press of Florida Edition.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones<\/em>, ed. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt.\u00a0\u00a0Gainesville:\u00a0 University Press of Florida, 2006, pp. v-xl.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018To hue the line and let the chips fall where they may\u2019:\u00a0 J. Winston Coleman\u2019s <em>Slavery Times in Kentucky<\/em> Reconsidered.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<\/em> 103 (Autumn 2005): \u00a0691-726.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnthropologist Felix von Luschan:\u00a0 Self-contradictions, Science, and America\u2019s Perplexing Race Problem.\u201d <em>The Funnel <\/em>(Berlin), 41 (Summer 2005):\u00a0 47-48.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArmed, Confederate and Black?\u00a0 Not Likely.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Raleigh News and Observer<\/em>, February 4, 2005, p. 17A.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAlfred Holt Stone and Conservative Racial Thought in the New South.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>The<\/em> <em>Human Tradition in the New South<\/em>, ed. James C. Klotter.\u00a0 Lanham, MD:\u00a0 Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2005, pp. 47-65.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrederic Bancroft\u2019s \u2018Notes Among the Negroes\u2019:\u00a0 Writing Contemporary History in Bourbon-Era Mississippi.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Journal of Mississippi History<\/em> 66 (Fall 2004):\u00a0 227-64.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Lawyer vs. the Race Traitor:\u00a0 Charles W. Chesnutt, William Hannibal Thomas, and <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">The American Negro<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">.\u201d <\/span><em style=\"font-size: inherit\">Journal of the Historical Society<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"> 3\u00a0 (Spring 2003):\u00a0 225-48.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cSlavery Ideology and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky:\u00a0 A Review Essay.\u201d\u00a0 <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"> 101 (Winter\/Spring, 2003):\u00a0 93-108.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Enduring Myth of \u2018Forty Acres and a Mule.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">The Chronicle of Higher Education, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">February 21, 2003, B11.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWilliam Hannibal Thomas, \u2018Schuld,\u2019 and the Writing of <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">The American Negro<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">.\u201d\u00a0 In <\/span><em style=\"font-size: inherit\">Schuld en Cultuur<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">, ed. Marijke Wubbolts.\u00a0 Publicatiereeks\u00a0Onderzoekschool Rudolf Agricola, deel 5.\u00a0 Groningen, The Netherlands:\u00a0 Groningen School for the Humanities, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2002, pp. 9-29<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: inherit\">.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cSelling the Civil War in Art and Memoir.\u201d <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">Documentary Editing<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"> 24 (September 2002): 74-76.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cW.E.B. Du Bois, Felix von Luschan, and Racial Reform at the Fin de Si\u00e8cle.\u201d <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">Amerikastudien \/ American Studies <\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">(Heidelberg) 47 (2002):\u00a0 23-38.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnthropologist Felix von Luschan and Trans-Atlantic Racial Reform.\u201d <em style=\"font-size: inherit\">M\u00fcnchner Beitr\u00e4ge zur V\u00f6lkerkunde <\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">(M\u00fcnchen) 7 (2002):\u00a0 289-304.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt;--><!-- [if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil War and Reconstruction<\/li>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Slavery, abolition, and emancipation<\/li>\n<li>Southern History<\/li>\n<li>Racial thought<\/li>\n<li>Documentary editing and publishing<\/li>\n<li>Historiography<\/li>\n<li>History of Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>Imperial Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Monograph Series Edited<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The American Ways Series\u00a0(Rowman &amp; Littlefield)<\/li>\n<li>The Library of African American Biography (Rowman &amp; Littlefield)<\/li>\n<li>American Abolitionism and Antislavery (Kent State University Press)<\/li>\n<li>New Studies in Southern History (Lexington Books)<\/li>\n<li>Other Southerners (University Press of Florida)*<\/li>\n<li>Reflections on the Civil War Era (Praeger)*<\/li>\n<li>Battles\u00a0and Leaders of the American Civil War (Praeger)*<\/li>\n<li>New Perspectives on the History of the South (University Press of Florida)*<\/li>\n<li>Studies in Historiography (Greenwood Press)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*presently not accepting book proposals<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>HIST 1512, The U.S. South and Race Relations:\u00a0 From Slavery to Jim Crow<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2000, History of the Old South<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2105, American Slavery &amp; Emancipation<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2600, Historical Methods Seminar (various topics)<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3211, Civil War &amp; Reconstruction<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3212, History of the Old South<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3795, Davenport Honors Seminar<\/li>\n<li>HIST 4000-5000, Historiography (various topics)<\/li>\n<li>HIST 4600, Senior Research Seminar (various topics)<\/li>\n<li>HIST 6000, Documentary Editing<\/li>\n<li>HIST 6000, Reconstruction (graduate seminar)<\/li>\n<li>HIST 6001, Graduate Colloquium: U.S. History to 1877 (graduate reading seminar)<\/li>\n<li>LBST 2101, The American Civil War: \u00a0Race, Rebellion, Reconstruction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A.B.,\u00a0<em>cum laude<\/em>, Baldwin-Wallace College, 1971<br \/>\nA.M., Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1973, 1977<\/p>\n<h3>Graduate Students Currently Supervised<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nathan Robert Joffe,<\/strong>\u00a0 BA, Clemson University:\u00a0 &#8220;W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jewish Intellectuals, Activists, and Philanthropists of the NAACP, 1910-1934&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachael Brown<\/strong>, BA, Georgia Southern University:\u00a0 &#8220;Children in Forced Labor in the American South, 1870-1920&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnathan Luckey<\/strong>, BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte:\u00a0 &#8220;The Union Capitol of the Old North State:\u00a0 Dissent in Confederate Western North Carolina&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Master&#8217;s Theses Recently Completed Under My Supervision<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maverick Huneycutt<\/strong>, BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte:\u00a0 &#8220;Memories of Enslavement and the North Carolina WPA Ex-Slave Narrative Collection&#8221; (<span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2024)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Cullinan<\/strong>, BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8216;Not Negroes nor Slaves but Free People&#8217;:\u00a0 Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade&#8221; (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Kinny<\/strong>, BA, University of Kentucky; BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; JD, Hastings College of Law, University of California San Francisco:\u00a0 &#8220;The New Orleans Citizens Committee: Unheralded Activists who Challenged Jim Crow in <em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em>&#8221; (2022)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Niles Sorensen<\/strong>, BS, Indiana University:\u00a0 &#8220;The New World Meets the Old:\u00a0 German-Americans and the Temperance Struggle in Ohio, 1870-1875&#8221;\u00a0(2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Charles Baisley<\/strong>, BA, Winthrop University:\u00a0 &#8220;Civilian Religious Belief in North Carolina over the Course of the Civil War&#8221; (2020)<\/li>\n<li><strong>J. Thomas Warlick<\/strong>, BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; JD, Emory University School of Law; LLM, John Marshall Law School:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8216;What&#8217;s Past is Prologue&#8217;:\u00a0 North Carolina&#8217;s Forgotten Black Code&#8221; (2020)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Ruth McManimen<\/strong>, BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte:\u00a0 &#8220;Rebellious and Reserved:\u00a0 The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity&#8221; (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Larry McIntyre<\/strong>, BA, MPH, West Virginia University:\u00a0 &#8220;The South Carolina Black Code and Its Legacy&#8221; (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books Since 2002 Editor, New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky. \u00a0Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2023. Editor, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen by John Eaton (1907).\u00a0 Knoxville:\u00a0 University of Tennessee Press, 2022 (with Micheal J. Larson). 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