Special Issues of Journals
Journal of African American History. Vol. 99, no. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2014).
Journal of African American History. Vol. 102 (Winter 2017). With Janes E. Schultz.
“Frederick Douglass’s Rhetorical Legacy,” Rhetoric Review, 37 (2018):1, 1-76. With Jonathan Rossing.
Howard Journal of Communications. (2018) DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2018.1461714. With Jonthan Rossing.
New North Star. (2019) eISSN: 2693-1486 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/issue/view/1529
New North Star. (2020) eISSN: 2693-1486 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/issue/view/1539
New North Star. (2021) eISSN: 2693-1486 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/issue/view/1649
New North Star. (2022) eISSN: 2963-1486 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/issue/view/1672
Articles, Essays, & Entries
"The American Baptist Free Mission Society: Abolitionist Reaction to the 1845 Baptist Schism." Foundations: The Journal of the American Baptist Historical Society, 21(October-December 1978): 340-55.
"The Christian Anti-Slavery Convention Movement of the Northwest." The Old Northwest: A Journal of Regional Life and Letters, 5(October-December 1979): 345-66.
"The Antislavery Comeouter Sects: An Overlooked Abolitionist Strategy." Civil War History, 26(June 1980): 142-61.
"Prisoner of Conscience: The Reverend George Gordon and the Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law During the Civil War." The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, 60(Winter 1982): 336-54.
“'The Gospel Will Burst the Bonds of the Slaves': The Abolitionists' Bibles for Slaves Campaign." Negro History Bulletin, 45(July-September 1982): 62-64, 77.
"The Ambivalent Six." Reviews in American History, 11(December 1983): 521-25.
"Vote As You Pray and Pray As You Vote: Church-Oriented Abolitionists and Antislavery Politics" in Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the Relationship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System, edited by Alan M. Kraut. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. 179-203.
“'He Stands Like Jupiter': The Autobiography of Gerrit Smith." New York History, 65(April 1984): 188-200. With Madeleine L. McKivigan.
"The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-1985: A Historical Perspective." Newsletter of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, 13(July/August 1985): 5-7.
"The 'Black Dream' of Gerrit Smith, New York Abolitionist." Courier: Journal of the Syracuse University Library, 20(Fall-Winter 1985): 51-76. With Madeleine Leveille.
"Monarchial Liberty and Republican Slavery: West Indies Emancipation Day Celebrations in Upstate New York and Canada West." Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 10(January 1986): 7-18. With Jason H. Silverman.
"James Redpath and Black Reaction to the Haitian Emigration Bureau." Mid-America: An Historical Review, 69(October 1987): 139-53.
"Capturing the Oral Event: Editing the Speeches of Frederick Douglass." Documentary Editing, 10(March 1988): 1-5.
"John Ball, Jr., alias 'The Roving Editor,' alias James Redpath." Manuscripts, Part I: 40(Fall 1988): 307-17; Part II: 41(Winter 1989): 19-29.
"Henry Bibb" and "William and Ellen Craft" in The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, eds. John David Smith and Randall M. Miller. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp. 80-81, 153-54.
"Women in the Abolitionist Movement" in Handbook of American Women's History, edited by Angela Howard Zophy. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1990. Pp. 4-5.
"The Frederick Douglass-Gerrit Smith Friendship: A Biracial Alliance for Reform" in Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays, edited by Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 205-32.
"James Redpath, John Brown, and Abolitionist Advocacy of Slave Insurrection." Civil War History, 37(December 1991): 293-313.
"Frederick Douglass" and fourteen other entries in Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols., edited by L. Sandy Maisel. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1991. Pp. 1:3-5, 65, 100, 111, 271-73, 413-14, 420-21, 449-50, 462-63, 467-69, 584, 637-38, 2:1005-06.
"The Autobiography of William Wild Thayer: Boston Publisher and Abolitionist." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 103(1991): 138-56.
"James Redpath in South Carolina: An Abolitionist Odyssey in the Reconstruction South" in The Historical Moment: Essays on American Character and Regional Identity. edited by Randall M. Miller and John R. McKivigan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. 188-210.
“The Irish American Worker in Transition: New York City as a Test Case" in The New York Irish, edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. 301-30, 645-55.
"Making of a Carpetbagger: The Military Career of Liberty Billings." Northeast Florida History, 3(1996): 65-81.
"Frederick Douglass" and "John Brown" in the Reader's Guide to American History, edited by Peter Parish. Cambridge, Eng.: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Pp. 75-76, 203-204.
"Christian Perspectives on Slavery." An entry for A Historical Guide to World Slavery, edited by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engermann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 152-55.
"The Northern Churches and the Moral Problem of Slavery" in The Meaning of Slavery in the North, edited by Marty Blatt and David R. Roediger. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Pp. 77-94.
“Preface” for The First Battle of Moorefield: Early’s Cavalry is Routed, by Stephen G. Smith. Saline, Mich.: Blue and Grey Education Society, 1998. Pp. 5-6.
"The Sectional Division of the Nation's Churches as an Indicator of Northern Antislavery Sentiment." in Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery, edited by John McKivigan and Mitchell Snay. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. Pp. 343-63.
“Antislavery Movement.” An entry for American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History, edited by John Mack Faragher. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1998. Pp. 43-45.
“Baptist Church and Slavery,” ”Morgan Godwyn,” “Irish Antislavery Society,” and “Massachusetts Antislavery Society,” “Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery.” Entries for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery, edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
“’His Soul Goes Marching On’: The Story of John Brown’s Followers after the Harpers Ferry’s Raid” in Antislavery Violence in Antebellum America: Essays on Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict, edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. 274-98.
"Charles Elliott," "Myron Holley," "Oliver Johnson," "James Redpath," and "Gerrit Smith" in the American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
“A Black Family’s Civil War,” Annotation: The Newsletter of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission 28(September 2000): 16-17.
“James H. Brown” in Dictionary of Virginia Biography, edited by Edited by John T. Kneebone. Richmond: Virginia State Library and Archive, 2001. Vol. 2:138-39.
“Harpers Ferry and John Brown.” An entry for the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. Vol. 2:14-15.
“American Abolitionism.” An entry for Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, edited by John P. Resch and Sally G. McMillen. New York: Gale Centage Learning, 2004. Vol. 2.
“James Redpath.” An entry for the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. Edited by Paul Finkelman and L. Diana Barnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 3:16-18.
“American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society” and “James Redpath.” Entries for Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishers, 2006. With Peter P. Hinks. Pp. 1:31-32, 2:567-68.
“Frederick Douglass.” An entry for the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, edited by Roger Newman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 9. 173.
“Howard Zinn and the Socially Conscious Academic.” International Journal of Social Education, 24(Spring/Summer 2009): 27-32.
“The Battle for the Border State Soul: The Slavery Debate in the Churches of the Border Region.” Ohio Valley History, 12(Summer 2012): 48-71.
“Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Response to the Election of 1860” in The Election of 1860, edited by A. James Fuller. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2013.
"Stalwart Douglass: Life and Times as Political Manifesto." Journal of African American History, 99(Winter-Spring 2014): 46-55.
“Rediscovering the Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass.” Journal of African American History, 99(Winter-Spring 2014): 4-11.
“Frederick Douglass.” An entry for American Governance, edited by Stephen Schechter. Farmington, Mich. Gale/Centage Learning, 2016.
“Autographs for Freedom: The Heroic Slave’s Abolitionist Audience.” Journal of African American History. 102(Winter 2017): 35-51. With Rebecca A. Pattillo.
“The Heroic Slave: Frederick Douglass’s Foray into Fiction: Considering the Context of Recent Work on The Heroic Slave.” Journal of African American History. 102(Winter 2017): 1-7. With Jane Schultz.
“Frederick Douglass’s Rhetorical Legacy.” Rhetoric Review, 37(January 2018): 1-5. With Jonathan Rossing.
"’A New Vocation before Me’: Frederick Douglass’s Post-Civil War Lyceum Career." Howard Journal of Communications. 29(July-September 2018): 268-81.
“Special Issue Introduction: Commemorating 200 Years since Frederick Douglass's Birth,” Howard Journal of Communications. 29(July-September 2018): 221-24. With Jonathan Rossing.
“Frederick Douglass’s Forgotten Autobiography,” New North Star, 1(Spring/ Summer 2018): 34-36.
“The Most Wonderful Man That America Has Ever Produced”: Frederick Douglass and His Contemporary Biographer,” New North Star, 2(2020): 33-44.
“Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.” in Frederick Douglass in Context, edited by Michel Roy (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 46-57.
“’Lesser Glory’: The Civil War Military Career of Charles Remond Douglass,” New North Star, 3(2021): 45-58.
“Frederick Douglass’s ‘New Departure’ in the Reconstruction Era Woman Suffrage Movement,” New North Star, 4(2022): XX. With Alex Schwartz.
“The Frederick Douglass Papers Speaks Out,” Scholarly Editing, 39(2022). With Alex Schwartz.
Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840-1865, 2 vols., edited by Philip S. Foner and George F. Walker. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979-80. The Old Northwest, 7 (Spring 1981): 67-69.
The Booker T. Washington Papers: Volume 11: 1911-1912. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1981. History: A Journal of Reviews, 2 (October 1982): 28.
Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier by Juliet E. K. Walker. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Journal of the Early Republic, 4 (Spring 1984): 84-85.
Book Reviews
Promiseland: A Century of Life in a Negro Community by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Labor History, 26 (Spring 1985): 308-09.
Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 by R.J. M. Blackett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 93 (April 1985): 223-25.
No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War edited by Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 38 (Summer 1985): 277-78.
Broken Church, Broken Nation: Denomination Schisms and the Coming of the Civil War by C. C. Goen. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985. Journal of Southern History, 52 (August 1986): 460-61.
Prudence Crandall: A Biography by Marvis Olive Welch. Manchester: Jason Publisher, 1983. Connecticut History, 27 (November 1986): 64-64.
Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero by James B. Stewart. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Journal of American History, 74 (September 1987): 512-13.
Beating against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-century Afro-American History by R. J. M. Blackett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pennsylvania History, 54 (October 1987): 312-14.
Southern Emancipator: Monecure Conway, the American Years, 1832-1865 by John D’Entremont. New York: Oxford University Press. 1987. American Historical Review, 94(April 1989): 521-22.
Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870 by Víctor B. Howard. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 89(Spring 1991): 217-18.
The Kentucky Abolitionists in the Midst of Slavery, 1854-1864: Exiles for Freedom by Richard Sears. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 92(Spring 1994): 201-03.
“No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow”: Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Lincoln by David B. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. Cheeseborough. Journal of Southern History, 61(August 1995): 610-11.
His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid by Paul Finkelman. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995. Georgia Historical Quarterly, 79(Fall 1995): 721-22.
West Virginia History, 55(1996): 147-48.
Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861 by Stanley Harrold. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1991. Journal of American History, 80(September 1996): 618-19.
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 82(Spring 1998): 187-88.
Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867 by Charles E. Heller. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996. West Virginia History, 57(1998), 172.
The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown by Edward J. Renehan Jr. New York: Crown, 1995. Slavery and Abolition, 17(1996): 251.
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity by Robert S. Levine. Georgia Historical Quarterly, 82(Spring 1998): 187-88.
Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island by Mark A. Schantz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. Labor History, 42(November 2001): 428-29.
The Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts by Kathryn Grover. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Journal of American History, 89(September 2002): 1033-1034.
John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War by Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pr., 2004 Alabama Review, 58(October 2005): 302-04.
Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robinson Delany by Adeleke, Tunde. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.American Historical Review, 110(October 2005): 1183–1184.
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War by John Patrick Daly. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Indiana Magazine of History, 102(March 2006): 53-54.
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2018. Journal of American History, 97(September 2010): 510-11.
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia by Charles F. Irons. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Journal of Presbyterian History, 90(Fall 2012): 94.
The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Thomas Bahde. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2014. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 109(Winter 2016):437-39.
Confronting Slavery: Edward Coles and the Rise of Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America by Suzanne Cooper Guasco. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 109(Winter 2016): 437-39.
Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left by Mark A. Lause. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Annals of Iowa, 78 (2019): 401-04.
Ohio Valley History, 20(2020): 95-96.
American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction by Stanley Harrold. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Journal of American History, 107(March 2021): 1006-07.