Dr. John Quist
Professor of History
Degrees
- D., University of Michigan (History)
Research Interests
- 19th-Century United States
- The U.S. Civil War Era
- History of the U.S. South
Courses Taught
- History 105: Historical Foundations of Global Cultures
- History 106: Modern World History
- History 201: Early U.S. History
- History 305: U.S. Civil War Era
- History 314: History of Jacksonian America
- History 525: Seminar in U.S. Regional [Southern] History
- History 526: Seminar in the U.S. Civil War Era
Major Publications
Books:
- Michigan's War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.
- Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Edited Books:
- Co-editor (with Michael J. Birkner and Randall M. Miller). The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019
- Co-editor (with Michael J. Birkner), James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.
- Editor of Richard H. Abbott, For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Selected Articles:
- "Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation." Journal of the Civil War Era 13 (June 2023), 178-213
- "'A Long Cherished Plan': Detroit and the US Dream of Canadian Annexation during the Nineteenth Century." In Brian Schoen, Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers, editors, Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (New York: Fordham University Press, 2022).
- "An Occasionally Dry State Surrounded by Water: Temperance and Prohibition in Antebellum Michigan." In Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock, editors, History of Michigan Law. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.
- "The Election of 1848." In William G. Shade and Ballard C. Campbell, editors, American Presidential Campaigns and Elections: A Reference Guide. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003, pp. 328-341.
- "Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama." Journal of Southern History 62 (August 1996): 481-526.
- "'The Great Majority of our Subscribers are Farmers': The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s." Journal of the Early Republic 14 (Fall 1994): 325-358.