Books written by John Stauffer

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s...

... Geoff De Verteuil, Tina Dunkley, Joellen ElBashir, Frank Faragasso, Nancy Finlay, Roy L. Flukinger, Brandon Fortune, Sara Georgini, Jordan Goffin, Frank Goodyear, Erika Gottfried, Ruth Morris Graham, Christopher Haley, Will Hansen, ...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On

Abingdon, 1980); John B. Boles, The Great Revival, 1787–1805: The Origins of the Southern EvangelicalMind (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972); Ellen Eslinger, Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism ...
World's Apart

World's Apart
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy

Contradicts the myth of a unified Confederacy during the Civil War, recounting the efforts of Newton Knight, the Jones County, Mississippi, farmer who organized his community to fight against the Confederates.
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

A landmark and collectible volume--beautifully produced in duotone--that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
The State of Jones

The slayings of Fairchild, Kilgore, and McGilvery in early 1864 marked another escalation in the war in the Piney Woods. ... Two more men caught bullets: a well-known potter and landowner named B. J . Rushton and an affluent ...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On

Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 53–82 (quote on 55), 292, 381 (Invaders quote); Miller, Martin Luther King's ... President Kennedy threaded the needle by declining to attend himself, but sent his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy ...
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, this book braids together Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and John Brown's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of ...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On

And by 1905 the students of Jackson, Mississippi, could celebrate the birthday of Robert E. Lee with a program that included both the “Battle Hymn” and “Dixie.”19 In the final decades of her life, Julia Ward Howe lent her full support ...
Southern Landscape

Southern Landscape
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced ...
The Tribunal

This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history.
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced ...
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives...
The Black Hearts of Men

Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression.
Giants/ Alamaleka: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Giants The parallel Lives of Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Licolin,(Arabic Edition)byJohn Stauffer
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volume--beautifully produced in duotone--that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
The Abolitionist Imagination

Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a better understanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility.
The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform

A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show how the study of the past can illuminate profound ethical and philosophical issues.
Meteor of War: The John Brown Story

Brown rebelled against the American government, and he murdered men in Kansas in order to end the murderous institution of slavery. He denounced war, but made war on his government in order to end an existing war for slavery.