John C. Rodrigue

John C. Rodrigue is the Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor in the Department of History at Stonehill College, in Easton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century US history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and slavery and emancipation. He previously taught at Louisiana State University, and he was an editor on the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. His most recent book, Freedom’s Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley (Cambridge University Press, 2023), was shortlisted for the 2024 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and it received the 2024 John L. Nau III Book Prize in American Civil War Era History from the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.