Books and Other Writing

“Emancipation — Then What?” in The New York Times (January 15, 2013)

“The Battle Over Gettysburg: What Lincoln would have said about September 11, 2001” in the Brown Alumni Magazine (January/February 2003).

Scholarly Writing:

“20 Men, Dead in the Stono” in Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (University of Georgia Press, 2023), edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathon W. White. (Amazon)

“The 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Beginning of Military Reconstruction” in The Greatest and the Grandest Act: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), edited by Christian G. Samito, pp. 60-88. (Amazon)

“The Thirteenth Amendment” in 1865: America Makes Peace and War in Lincoln’s Final Year (Fordham University Press, 2015), edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, pp. 7-21. (Amazon)

“Spielberg’s Lincoln: The Great Emancipator Returns” in Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 3, no. 4 (December 2013), pp. 549-572.

“Liberté, Égalité, and Lincoln: French Readings of an American President” in The Global Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2011), edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton, pp. 95-106. (Amazon)

“Was Lincoln’s Constitution Color-Blind?” in The Living Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), edited by Thomas A. Horrocks, Harold Holzer, and Frank J. Williams, pp. 115-127. (Amazon)

“Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding the Deafening Silence” in The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment (Columbia University Press, 2010), edited by Alexander Tsesis, pp. 58-77. (Amazon)

“Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Fellow Citizens’–Before and After Emancipation” in Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, pp. 151-169. (Amazon)

“The Thirteenth Amendment Enacted” in Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Harold Holzer and Sarah Vaughn Gabbard, pp. 180-194. (Amazon)

“After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln’s Black Dream” in Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (Fordham University Press, 2007), edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel, pp. 215-230. (Amazon)

“Slavery Reparations in Theory and Practice: Lincoln’s Approach” in Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Brian R. Dirck. (Amazon)

“Reconstruction as a Constitutional Crisis” in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on Postbellum America (Oxford University Press, 2006), edited by Thomas J. Brown, pp. 141-171. (Amazon)

“The World Will Forever Applaud: Emancipation” in Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War, (Ospery, 2006), edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Amazon)

“Imagining a Different Reconstruction Constitution” in Civil War History, vol. 51, no. 4 (December 2005), pp. 416-426.

“Emancipating the Constitution: Francis Lieber and the Theory of Amendment” in Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind (University of South Carolina Press, 2005), edited by Charles R. Mack and Henry H. Lesesne. (Amazon)

“The Chase Court (1864-1873): Cautious Reconstruction” in The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), edited by Christopher Tomlins. (Amazon)

“The King’s Cure: Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery” in Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency (Mercer University Press, 2003), edited by Charles Hubbard. (Amazon)

“Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy During the Civil War Era” in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (Princeton University Press, 2003), edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, pp. 120-145. (Amazon)

“The Deformed Child: Slavery and the Election of 1864” in Civil War History, vol. 47, no. 3 (September 2001), pp. 240-257.

“Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization” in Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, vol. 14, no. 2 (Summer 1993), pp. 22-45.