Daniel Kilbride
Professor
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Background
I grew up in Philadelphia, PA, and was educated at St. Joseph's University and the University of Florida. I have been at JCU since 1997.
Areas of Expertise
19tn century United States; antislavery movements; Abraham Lincoln; the Old South.
Research Interests
I am currently writing a book on the image of Abraham Lincoln in American popular culture.
Education
BA, St. Joseph's University, 1990Ph.D., University of Florida, 1997
Courses Taught
Honors Freshman SeminarHistory of US Foreign Relations
Life & Times of Abraham Lincoln
Old South
United States History ! & 2
The Civil War and Reconstruction
History of Medicine and Public Health in the United States
Publications
Being American in Europe, 1750-1861. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Co-edited with Lisa T. Frank. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. Co-author of Preface and sole author of “The South and the Revolutions of 1848.”
An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia, 1800-65. University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
“West African Missions, Colonies, and Imperial Anxieties in the United States, 1834-65,” in John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault, eds., The Long Civil War (University of Kentucky Press, 2021).
“Gorillas, Cannibals, and the Struggle over Radical Reconstruction,” Civil War History 67:2 (June 2021): 110-40.
“The Old South Confronts the Dilemma of David Livingstone,” Journal of Southern History 82:4 (November 2016), 789-822.
“What did Africa Mean to Frederick Douglass?” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 36:1 (March 2015): 40-62.
“The South and the Revolutions of 1848,” in Kilbride and Lisa Tendrich Frank eds., Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown (University Press of Florida, 2011).
“Travel Writing as Evidence with Special Attention to Nineteenth-Century Anglo-America,” History Compass 9:4 (2011), 339-50.
“Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) and Frances Butler Leigh (1838-1910): Becoming Georgian,” in Georgia Women: A Biographical History, Vol. 1, ed. Ann Chirhart and Betty Wood. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), pp. 106-129.
“Slavery, Nation, and Ideology: Virginians on the Grand Tour in the 1850s,” in Virginia’s Civil War, ed. Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004).
“Class, Region, and Memory in a South Carolina - Philadelphia Marriage,” Journal of Family History 28:4 (October, 2003), 540-60.
“Travel, Ritual, and National Identity: Planters on the European Tour, 1820-1860,” Journal of Southern History 69:3 (August, 2003), 549-84.
“The Cosmopolitan South: Privileged Southerners, Philadelphia, and the Fashionable Tour in the Antebellum Era,” Journal of Urban History 26:5 (July 2000), 563-90.
“Southern Medical Students in Philadelphia, 1800-1861: Science and Sociability in the ‘Republic of Medicine,’” Journal of Southern History 65:4 (November 1999), 697-732.
“Cultivation, Conservatism, and the Early National Gentry: The Manigault Family and their Circle,” Journal of the Early Republic 19:2 (Summer 1999), 221-256.
“Slavery and Utilitarianism: Thomas Cooper and the Mind of the Old South,” Journal of Southern History 59 (August 1993): 469-486.
