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John Stauffer

professor, English, Harvard

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/stauffer...

John Stauffer writes and lectures on the Civil War era, antislavery, social protest movements, and visual culture. [more]

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II

October 3, 2009

CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol

Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours

February 9, 2009

A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.

American Protest Literature

November 15, 2006

Author Zoe Trodd discusses how her book celebrates an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. Adoyo Owuor reads the Emancipation Proclamation, Timothy Patrick McCarthy reads Eugene V.

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Author: John Stauffer

Publisher: Twelve (2008)

Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

Author: John Stauffer

Publisher: Harvard University Press (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 384 pages

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