John Stauffer (professor)

[1] He writes and lectures on the Civil War era, antislavery, social protest movements, and photography.[4] He is the author and editor of eleven books, including two books that were briefly national bestsellers: GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008), which won the Iowa Author Award and a Boston Authors Club Award[5] and has been translated into Mandarin, Arabic, and Korean;[6] and The State of Jones (2009), co-authored with Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins.His most recent books are The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song that Marches On (2013), co-authored with Benjamin Soskis,[11] which was a Lincoln Prize finalist[12] and a Best Book of 2013 from Civil War Memory[13] and from Moore to the Point[14]; and Southern Landscape, with photographs by Sally Mann (2014).[17] In 2009, Harvard University named him the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for "achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history, or art.[19] He was also a consultant for the PBS documentaries The African American Express: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) and God in America (2010).
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