John McKivigan

Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of Nineteenth-Century U.S.History

Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history (the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras), American reform movements, and American ethnic history, American labor history

Education:

Ph.D. at Ohio State University, 1977
B.A. at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1971
M.A. at Ohio State University, 1973

Biography:

John R. McKivigan , Adjunct Professor

Publications

The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches(Cornell University Press 1984);

(co-editor)Biography and the Historical Moment (Greenwood Press 1994);

Slavery, Sectionalism, and American Religion (University of Georgia Press1998);

and Antislavery Violence (University of Tennessee Press 1999);

(editor of a modern edition) James Redpath's 1959 book The Roving Editor; or, Talks with the Slaves in the Southern States (Penn State University Press 1996);

and over thirty-five articles and book chapters