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John David Smith

Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor
Office: Garinger 213B
E-mail:
Telephone: 704.687.4822
Fall 2011 Office Hours: T 2:15pm-3:15pm, 6:20pm-7:20pm
& by appointment

 

Recent Publications

  • Seeing the New South: Race and Place in the Photographs of Ulrich B. Phillips.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012 (with Patricia B. Bixel).
  • Editor, Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010 (with Mark Elliott).
  • An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918, third edition with a new preface. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
  • Editor, History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History by Charles P. Roland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
  • Editor, The Flaming Sword by Thomas Dixon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
  • Editor, The Negro in the American Rebellion by William Wells Brown. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.
  • Editor, My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. New York and London: Penguin, 2003.
  • Editor, Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 2004.
  • Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000; Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

Research Interests

Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery and emancipation, Southern History, racial thought, documentary editing and publishing

Courses Taught

  • HIST 2000, Old South
  • HIST 2100, Historical Methods (Sophomores)
  • HIST 2105, American Slavery & Emancipation
  • HIST 3211, Civil War & Reconstruction
  • HIST 3212, Old South
  • HIST 3795, Davenport Honors Seminar
  • HIST 4000, Historical Methods (Seniors)
  • HIST 4000-5000, Historiography: Southern Historians 
  • HIST 6000, Documentary Editing
  • HIST 6000, Graduate Colloquium: U.S. History to 1865
  • HIST 6000, Reconstruction
  • LBST 2101, Empire, Race, and War, 1607-1918
  • LBST 2101, Slavery, Freedom, and Manhood in the Crucible of War

Biography

Education:

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1977

Current Projects:

I currently am working on a history of the slave reparations movement, an intellectual biography of the Austrian anthropologist Felix von Luschan (1854-1924), and a history of the U.S. Colored Troops.