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John C. Rodrigue is a historian in the United States. He is the Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor in the Department of History at Stonehill College. He previously taught at Louisiana State University.[1] He won the won the 2024 John L. Nau III Book Prize in American Civil War Era History for his 2023 book Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley.[2]
A video recording was made of him discussing his book Freedom Crescent.[3] He was the general editor for the college-level textbook Louisiana: A History published by Wiley.[4] In 2018, he was gave a presentation at Boston University.[4]
A review of his book on Abraham Lincoln and the Reconstruction era, describes it as a "concise account" discussing the evolution and inconsistencies in Lincoln's political and intellectual leadership.[5]
Writings
[edit]- Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 (2001)
- Lincoln and Reconstruction Southern Illinois University Press (2013)[6]
- Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865, co-editor with Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, and Leslie S. Rowland, University of North Carolina Press[7]
- Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley Cambridge University Press (2023)
References
[edit]- ^ "John C. Rodrigue". Stonehill College.
- ^ "John C. Rodrigue Wins 2024 John Nau Book Prize". John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. March 29, 2024.
- ^ "John C. Rodrigue: "The Destruction of Slavery in Arkansas"". September 6, 2023 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b "John Rodrigue to deliver next lunch talk | American Political History Institute". www.bu.edu.
- ^ "Lincoln and Reconstruction by John C. Rodrigue".
- ^ "Lincoln and Reconstruction".
- ^ "Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 | Steven Hahn". University of North Carolina Press.
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