James Oakes
James Oakes is a leading historian of the happenings of nineteenth century America who has made a name for himself for path breaking scholarship. Over several essays and books, he has tackled the history of the United States right from the Revolutionary War and up to the Civil War.In his early works, he focused on happenings in the South of the United States as he examined slavery as a social and economic system that shaped life in the south. His earliest works such as The Destruction of Slavery in the United States and The Ruling Race earned him awards such as the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. This is an annual prize for fine scholarship on the American Civil War in English.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
1982
Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
1990
The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics, and the Family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827
1991
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
2007
Of the People
2009
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
2012
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
2014
When You Walk Through A Storm: A heartbreaking true life story, chronicling how two people struggle for survival against all the odds.
2021
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
2021