James L. Roark

James L. Roark, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History, (B.A., University of California-Davis, 1963; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973); southern history and nineteenth-century American history. Author of Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction; coauthor, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (with Michael Johnson); coeditor, No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (with Michael Johnson); The American Promise: A History of the United States.

I am currently working on a couple of projects on the Confederate States of America. The most immediate is a documentary history of the Confederacy that braids the experiences of the soldiers and battlefields with those of civilians - including women, slaves, and dissenters - and the home front.

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