Jonathan Earle
Roger Hadfield Ogden Dean, LSU Honors College
Associate Professor
225-578-2735
Current Research Interests
Electing Abraham Lincoln: The Revolution of 1860 (forthcoming; part of Oxford University Press’s “Pivotal Moments in U.S. History” series)
Education
B.A. Columbia University (1990) magna cum laude
M.A. Princeton (1992)
Ph.D. Princeton (1996)
Awards and Honors
Hall Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-13
J. Michael Young Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Advising, University of Kansas, 2011
James A. Broussard Best First Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2005
Co-winner, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award, 2005
Named a “Top Young Historian” by History News Network, Dec. 2005
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, 2003
Huntington Library/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999-2000 academic year
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1999-2000 academic year
Books
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013), co-edited with Diane Mutti Burke
John Brown’s Raid: A Brief History With Documents (Boston, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008)
Major Problems in the Early Republic (2e., with Sean Wilentz, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Jacksonian Anti-Slavery and the Politics of Free Soil 1824-1854 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
The Routledge Atlas of African American History (New York: Routledge, 2000)