Curriculum Vitae
JOHN C. RODRIGUE
Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor
Department of History
Stonehill College
Easton, MA 02357
(w) 508-565-1664
(h) 508-297-2162
(c) 508-269-7101
email: [email protected]
Positions Held
Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor, Stonehill College 2007-present
Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, 2001-2007
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, 1996-2001
Assistant Editor, Freedmen & Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, 19921996
Education
Emory University, Ph.D., 1993
Adviser: Professor James L. Roark
Columbia University, A.M., 1986
Rutgers University, B.A. magna cum laude, 1983
Publications
Monographs
Lincoln and Reconstruction (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013; volume in The
Concise Lincoln Library series)
Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar
Parishes, 1862-1880 (LSU Press, 2001)
Scholarly Edited Works
Louisiana: A History, 6th edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2014)
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Series 3, Volume 1. Land & Labor:
1865, with Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, and Leslie S. Rowland
(University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Essays and Articles in Scholarly Journals
“Wartime Origins of Reconstruction,” in A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, Aaron
Sheehan-Dean, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
“Black Agency after Slavery,” in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum
United States, Thomas Brown, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Introduction to reprint edition of Henry Clay Warmoth, War, Politics, and
Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana (University of South Carolina Press, 2006)
“Labor Militancy and Black Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 18651868,” Journal of Southern History 67, no. 1 (February 2001): 115-42
“Labor Militancy and Black Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 18651868,” Journal of Southern History article reprinted in The Louisiana Purchase
Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Volume VI: Reconstructing Louisiana, ed.
Lawrence N. Powell (Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
2001)
“The Freedmen’s Bureau and Wage Labor in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868,” in
The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of the South, Randall Miller and Paul A.
Cimbala, eds. (Fordham University Press, 1999)
“‘The Great Law of Demand and Supply’: The Contest over Wages in Louisiana's Sugar
Region, 1870-1880,” Agricultural History 72, no. 2 (Spring, 1998), pp. 159-82
“Between Emancipation and Enfranchisement: Law and the Political Mobilization of
Black Southerners, 1865-1867,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 70, no. 3 (1995), pp. 105977, with Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, and Leslie S. Rowland
Other Publications
Entry on “Reconstruction” for The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
(2012)
Entries on “Oscar J. Dunn,” “the Freedmen’s Bureau,” “Freedmen’s Bureau Bills,” “the
Freedman’s Bank,” “Michael Hahn,” “O. O. Howard,” “William Pitt Kellogg,” “Francis
T. Nicholls,” “P. B. S. Pinchback,” and “Henry Clay Warmoth,” for Encyclopedia of the
Reconstruction Era, edited by Richard Zuczek (Greenwood, 2006)
Entries on “Emancipation and Reconstruction” and “The 1887 Sugar Strike,” for
Encyclopedia of Labor and Working Class History (Routledge, 2006)
“More Souths?” in Reviews in American History 30, no. 1 (March 2002): 66-71,
reviewing Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of
Segregation, by J. William Harris.
“Louisiana” entry for the Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, Stanley I. Kutler,
ed. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002)
“Louisiana” entry for The New Book of Knowledge (Grolier, 1998)
Book reviews or review essays published in American Historical Review, Journal of
American History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Journal of Mississippi History, Journal
of Southern History, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of American Ethnic History, Maryland
Historical Magazine, Agricultural History, Civil War History, American Jewish History,
Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Military History of the West, North Carolina Historical
Review, Law and History Review, The Americas, Lincoln Lore, Labor: Studies in
Working-Class History of the Americas; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Civil War
Era Studies
Works in Progress
“Freedom’s Crescent: The Abolition of Slavery the Lower Mississippi Valley, 18601865” (book-length project)
“The Baseless Fabric of Vision: Southern Planters from the Civil War to the Age of
Jim Crow” (book-length project)
Fellowships and Awards
Sabbatical, Stonehill College, Spring 2015
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 2006; designated a
“We the People Project” (for project on southern planters after the Civil War)
LSU Council on Research Grant, Summer 2006
Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana
Historical Association, for Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, 2002
LSU Council on Research Grant, Summer 2003
Sabbatical Leave, LSU, Fall 2002
Faculty Honor Roll, LSU Campus-Community Coalition for Change, Spring 2001
Roselyn Boneno Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, LSU History
Department, 1999
LSU Non-Tenured Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 1999
Summer Stipend, 1997, LSU Council on Research
St. George Tucker Society Dissertation Award, 1994
Predoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship
in Southern Studies, 1991-92
Predoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and
African-American Studies, 1990-91
Emory University Fellowship in History, 1986-1990
Matthew’s Travel Fund Awards, Emory University Department of History, 1988, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Edward Zabriskie Prize, Rutgers University Department of History, 1983
Garden State Scholarships, Rutgers University, 1979-1983
Courses Taught
History of American Freedom, Stonehill College
Listening to African American History, Stonehill College
African American History I (to the Civil War), Stonehill College
Civil War and Reconstruction, Stonehill College
The Debate over Slavery in Antebellum America, Stonehill College
Slavery and Emancipation (undergraduate seminar), Stonehill College
Lincoln and His America, Stonehill College
From Jackson to Lincoln, Stonehill College
Reconstruction, Louisiana State University
Age of Jackson, Louisiana State University
Louisiana History, Louisiana State University
Graduate Readings Seminar in U.S History, Louisiana State University
Slavery and Plantation Society in the 19th Century South (graduate seminar), LSU
Slavery and Emancipation in the Americas, Louisiana State University
Proseminar in Historical Writing: The U.S. South from Slavery to Freedom, University
of Maryland
Development of the United States, 1877-Present, Emory University
Professional Conferences and Presentations
Session chair and commentator for session at annual meeting of the St. George Tucker
Society, Augusta, August 2011
Session Chair and commentator, “Mobilizing for Freedom: Agency and Constraint in the
Post-Emancipation Carolinas,” Southern Historical Association, Charlotte, November
2010
“Reconstructing the Plantation Household: Planter Families after the American Civil
War,” paper presented at session, “Gender, Politics, and Rights in the Era of the Civil
War,” meeting of The Historical Society, Washington, D.C., June 2010
Session commentator, “Race, Politics, Prostitution, and the Collapse of Reconstruction in
the American South,” meeting of The Historical Society, Washington, D.C., June 2010
Session Chair, “Louisiana and Reconstruction,” annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association, Lafayette, LA, March 2010
Session commentator, “Reconstruction and Louisiana,” annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association, Alexandria, LA, March 2007
“Personalities and Politics during the Civil War Era: The Feud between Ulysses S. Grant
and Henry Clay Warmoth,” Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable, Spring 2007
Session commentator, “Southern Republicanism during Reconstruction,” annual meeting
of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, November 2005
“Personalities and Politics during the Civil War Era: The Feud between Ulysses S. Grant
and Henry Clay Warmoth,” Kentucky Civil War Roundtable, September 2005
Invited participant in Hickory Hill Southern Studies Forum, “The Imperial Ambitions of
the South, 1800-1860,” Watson-Brown Foundation, Thomson, Georgia, May 2005
Session chair, “The Bitter Politics of Reconstruction,” annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association, Lafayette, March 2005
Session chair and commentator, “Sugar and Social Relations in Early Nineteenth-Century
Louisiana,” annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture, New Orleans, La., June 2003
Session chair and commentator, “The African American Struggle for Rights during the
Reconstruction Era,” annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians,
Memphis, Tenn., April 2003
Commentator, “God, Justice, and Reconstruction: Free People in the Emancipation Era,”
annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association, Lafayette, March 2003
Commentator, “Historiography of American Reconstruction,” meeting of The Historical
Society, Atlanta, Ga., May 2002
Session chair, “Memory and History in Louisiana,” annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association, New Iberia, March 2002
Commentator, “Louisiana and Reconstruction,” annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association, Lafayette, La., March 2000
“The Freedmen’s Bureau and Wage Labor in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868,”
paper delivered before the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association,
Alexandria, La., March 1999
Moderator, “Facets of Louisiana’s Black History,” Annual Regional Meeting of
Louisiana Chapters of Phi Alpha Theta (concurrent with annual meeting of the Louisiana
Historical Association), New Iberia, La., March 1998
“‘The Great Law of Demand and Supply’: The Contest over Wages in Louisiana's Sugar
Region, 1870-1880,” paper delivered before a Symposium of the Agricultural History
Society: “African-Americans in Southern Agriculture, 1877-1945,” Chapel Hill, N.C.,
June 1997
Moderator, “‘A Gentleman and a Scholar’: The Life and Works of Charles L. ‘Pie’
Dufour,” Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Hist. Assoc., Bossier City, La., March 1997
Comment on paper by Loren Schweninger, “Managing Human Property: Overseers,
Masters, and Runaway Slaves,” delivered before the Annual Meeting of the St. George
Tucker Society, Atlanta, Ga., August 1996
“Labor Turnover and Mobility on Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Transition to
Free Labor, 1863-1878,” Paper Delivered before the Annual Meeting of the Southern
Historical Association, New Orleans, La., November 1990
“Women on Louisiana Sugar Plantations during the Civil War, 1862-1865,” Paper
Delivered before the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association,
Alexandria, La., March 1990
Membership in Professional Associations
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association (life member)
Louisiana Historical Association (life member)
Society of Civil War Historians
The Lincoln Forum (life member)
The Lincoln Group of Boston (life member)
Professional Service/Other Professional Activities
Vice President (President-Elect), Louisiana Historical Association (2015-16)
Southern Historical Association: membership committee (two terms)
Louisiana Historical Association: Program Committee (chair); Publications committee
(multiple terms)
Kemper and Leila Williams Prize Committee, Historic New Orleans Collection and the
Louisiana Historical Association
Wayne D. Rasmussen Award Committee, Agricultural History Society
External evaluator for tenure: Anderson University, Loyola University, University of
Memphis
Consultant for Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project, LSU Libraries, 2009-10
Consultant for Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great
Migration (microfilm project): Louisiana sugar plantations
Reviewed manuscripts for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press,
Harvard University Press, LSU Press, University of Arkansas Press, Journal of the Early
Republic, Louisiana History, The Journal of the Civil War Era, Arkansas Historical
Quarterly
Media
Virtual Book Signing, Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago. July 2013. Webcast
available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98IE2tRU8tU
On-Camera consultant, documentary on Huey Long and Robert Penn Warren’s All the
King’s Men, to accompany DVD version of film “All the King’s Men” (Columbia
Pictures)
On-air consultant, NPR feature on P. B. S. Pinchback, January 2007
On-Camera consultant, “City Confidential,” A&E network, spring 2001
On-Camera consultant for documentary film on black life and culture in 19th century
Louisiana, July 1999
On-Camera consultant: LPB broadcast, “Louisiana: The State We’re in,” March 1999
On-Camera consultant: WGMB (Fox Network Affiliate, Baton Rouge); documentary on
Baton Rouge and Louisiana history, March 1999
On-Camera consultant: WAFB-Baton Rouge, for profile on life in Baton Rouge at
beginning of 19th century, March 1999
Series on Louisiana History for radio station WJBO (1150 AM) in Baton Rouge, Jan.Mar. 1999, in conjunction with BonneFete, 1999
On-Camera Consultant: “Hidden Mysteries,” by Café Productions of London, for
documentary film on slavery in Louisiana, 1999
On-Camera Consultant: KADN (Fox Network Affiliate, Monroe, La.): for documentary
on the Civil War in northern Louisiana, March 1998
On-Camera consultant: WAFB-Baton Rouge, on the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1998
On-Camera consultant: Korean Broadcasting System for documentary history of jazz,
April 1997
Interviewed by Russian-language radio station in New York for 50-year retrospective on
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Dec. 1996
Local Instructional Activities/Community Service
“Lincoln and Reconstruction,” talk given before the Lincoln-Davis Civil War Roundtable
(Illinois), Aug., 2014
“Lincoln and Reconstruction,” talk given at meeting of the Lincoln Group of Boston,
Bridgewater State University, Feb. 2014
“Lincoln and Reconstruction,” talk given at Providence Public Library, Providence,
Rhode Island, Dec. 8, 2013
Lecture, “Reflections on Gettysburg,” at Gettysburg Resurrected: New Interpretations
and Memorial Practice on the Sesquicentennial of the Battle, Symposium at Rhode
Island College, Oct. 17, 2013
Moderator, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and discussion
program at the Ascension Parish Public Library, Galvez branch, sponsored by the
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2006
Lecture before Dow Chemicals Retiree Organization, Spring 2002
Lecture before Baton Rouge Kiwanas Club, February 2001
Lecture before Elder Hostel, Baton Rouge, Fall 2001
Ethel Claiborne Dameron Lecture, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, Nov. 2000
Talk before Louisiana House of Representatives Professional Development Seminar, Fall
Consultant, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, Spring 1999
Moderator, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and discussion
program at the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library, Baton Rouge, sponsored by the
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2001
Moderator, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and discussion
program at the Audubon Regional Public Library, Clinton, sponsored by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 1999
Moderator, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and discussion
program at the Iberville Parish Public Library, Plaquemine, sponsored by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 1998
Lecture in conjunction with “Free at Last,” historical exhibit on the history of the
abolitionist movement in the United States, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, October
1998
Consultant for Foundation for Historical Louisiana in development of the organization’s
website, Summer, 1998
Consultant for Louisiana Public Broadcasting on script for planned documentary on the
history of Louisiana, Episode 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction, Summer 1998
Moderator for Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and
discussion program with Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales sponsored by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 1997
“Louisiana's Capitols: Past & Present”: Talk before Old State Capitol docents, Baton
Rouge, Fall 1997
“Louisiana's Capitols: Past & Present”: Talk before Friends of the Old Capitol, Baton
Rouge, June 1997
Moderator, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State, readings and discussion
program at the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library, sponsored by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 1997
Consultant with Old State Capitol for planned exhibit on a retrospective history of
Louisiana’s Capitols
Consultant with Lin Holdridge, member of the Louisiana Governor’s committee for
FrancoFete 1999, for planned commemoration of tricentennial of Louisiana’s founding
Provided background on various aspects of Louisiana history to the office of Hunter
Downer, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Provided information for numerous news stories and feature articles for various
Louisiana newspapers, including Baton Rouge Advocate, New Orleans Times-Picayune,
and Alexandria Town Talk
External Funding
Principal Co-investigator, “Louisiana Remembers: The Tunica-Biloxi Indians of
Louisiana, A Pilot Project”; Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, 1997; amount
awarded: $146,333.00; duration of grant: one year