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, State University, 2001-2007

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, 1996-2001

Assistant Editor, Freedmen & Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, 1992- 1996

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 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 , 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, 1865- 1868,” Journal of Southern History 67, no. 1 (February 2001): 115-42

“Labor Militancy and Black Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865- 1868,” 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. 1059- 77, 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 ’s Bank,” “,” “O. O. Howard,” “,” “Francis T. Nicholls,” “P. B. S. Pinchback,” and “Henry Clay Warmoth,” for Encyclopedia of the , 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, 1860- 1865” (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 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 ,” 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, Bookshop, Chicago. July 2013. Webcast available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98IE2tRU8tU

On-Camera consultant, documentary on 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 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 , 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