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John David Smith

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John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited thirty-one books, including An Old Creed for the New South:  Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918Black Judas:  William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro; Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops; Soldiering For Freedom:  How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War; and We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice:  Black Voices from Reconstruction.

John David Smith Books

New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky book cover

New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky

John David Smith
A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky book cover

A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky

Frances Dallam Peter
The Long Civil War book cover

The Long Civil War

John David Smith
Black Judas book cover

Black Judas

John David Smith
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens book cover

The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens

Michael J. Birkner
Writing History with Lightning book cover

Writing History with Lightning

Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Soldiering For Freedom book cover

Soldiering For Freedom

Bob Luke
The Dunning School book cover

The Dunning School

John David Smith
A Just and Lasting Peace book cover

A Just and Lasting Peace

John David Smith
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 book cover

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

George Washington Williams
Undaunted Radical book cover

Undaunted Radical

Mark Elliott
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America book cover

Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America

Michele K. Gillespie
Black Soldiers in Blue book cover

Black Soldiers in Blue

John David Smith
My Bondage and My Freedom book cover

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass
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