John Stauffer

John Stauffer is Chair of the History of American Civilization and Professor of English and African American Studies at Harvard University.  Having received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999, he has written and lectured widely on slavery and abolition, social protest, and photography.  He is the author or editor of six books, including The Black Hearts of Men, which won four major awards.  He has been on national radio and television shows and his writings have appeared in Time Magazine, Raritan, New York Post, 21st, and the Boston Globe.  He is finishing a collective biography of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and co-authoring a book with Sally Jenkins on interracial alliances in Civil War era Mississippi.

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