Dr. Daniel Kilbride, Ph.D
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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, 1990
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1997
Courses Taught
- Honors Freshman Seminar
- History 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.
