Jim Stewart taught courses about the Western Hemisphere and the United States prior to the 20th century, emphasizing the topics of race, politics, law and social movements during his nearly thirty years of teaching. His books and articles address the abolitionist movement in the U.S. and the politics of the conflict over slavery and the struggles for racial justice. In 2002-03 he began a five-year, half-time appointment as James Wallace Professor of History, devoted largely to research, writing, editing and consulting for foundations. He will continue to teach courses occasionally. EDUCATION: B.A., Dartmouth College, 1962; M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1966; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1968
Journal Articles
The radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of antislavery politics (Book Review), Civil War History (2008)
Reconsidering the Abolitionists in an Age of Fundamentalist Politics, Journal of the Early Republic (2006)
The New Haven Negro College and the Meanings of Race in New England, 1776-1870, The New England Quarterly (2003)
The Roberts Case, the Easton Family, & the Dynamics of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts, 1776–1870 (with George R. Price), The Massachusetts Historical Review (2002)
Books
Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (with Kathryn Kish Sklar) (2007)
Race and the early republic: racial consciousness and nation-building in the early republic (with Michael A. Morrison) (2002)
To heal the scourge of prejudice the life and writings of Hosea Easton (with George Wright Price) (1999)
Contributions to Books
Joshua Giddings, Antislavery Violence, and Congressional Politics of Honor, Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (1999)