Louis Masur

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Louis Masur is affiliated with the following schools: Rutgers University, University of Illinois Chicago

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Louis Masur's Degrees

PhD American Studies University of Illinois Chicago
Masters American Studies University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelors History University of Illinois Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Louis P. Masur is an American historian. Masur is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Society of American Historians.

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You Must Remember this@@@Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. (1992) (219)
Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 (1990) (85)
"Pictures Have Now Become a Necessity": The Use of Images in American History Textbooks (1998) (27)
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union (2012) (16)
1831, year of eclipse (2001) (13)
“Age of the First Person Singular”: the Vocabulary of the Self in New England, 1780–1850 (1991) (12)
"...the real war will never get in the books": Selections from Writers During the Civil War (1993) (9)
Reading Watson and the Shark (1994) (8)
Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774 (1985) (5)
Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (2015) (5)
Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series (2003) (4)
The Civil War: A Concise History (2011) (3)
The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (1993) (3)
On Parkman's Trail@@@Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). (1992) (3)
"Famous Long Ago": Bob Dylan Revisited (2007) (2)
Stephen Jay Gould's Vision of History (2015) (2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) (1995) (2)
The First World Series?@@@When Boston Won the World Series: A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903@@@The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903@@@Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series (2003) (2)
And the War Came (2011) (2)
Herman Melville (1819–1891) (1982) (2)
Lincoln’s Hundred Days (2012) (1)
The rise of capitalism : the unseen hand (2000) (1)
Reimagining Jefferson@@@The Adams-Jefferson Letters.@@@In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson.@@@Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation.@@@Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. (1989) (1)
Bernard Devoto and the Making of the Year of Decision: 1846@@@The Year of Desicion: 1846. (1990) (1)
The Geography of “Born to Run” (2007) (1)
The challenge of American history (1999) (1)
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) (1995) (1)
Historians’ Forum: The Emancipation Proclamation (2013) (1)
William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) (1995) (0)
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2013) (0)
Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2012) (0)
"Let Me Know If We Are Free" (2010) (0)
Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union's War Governors by Stephen D. Engle (review) (2017) (0)
Louis P. Masur, Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865 , New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 208. $34.50 (ISBN: 0-19-504899-7). (1992) (0)
The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (0)
3. 1862 (2020) (0)
6. 1865 and after the war (2020) (0)
3 A New Departure (2012) (0)
1. The origins of the Civil War (2020) (0)
Contributors to this issue (2003) (0)
A Bettor Nation@@@Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America. (1991) (0)
Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830-1870 (review) (2012) (0)
Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent: His Dispatches from the Virginia Front (review) (2012) (0)
The Call of Robert Coles (1994) (0)
Book Review: A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865, by Louis P. Masur (1989) (0)
8 “We Cannot Escape History” (2012) (0)
7 Intervention and Election Fever (2012) (0)
A Singular Sensation@@@Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845. (1990) (0)
“What It Will Take to Turn Historians into Writers”: (2020) (0)
Civil War Mobilizations (2012) (0)
13 Emancipation Triumphant (2012) (0)
Stanley I. Kutler (1934–2015) (2015) (0)
9 Standing Firm (2012) (0)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) (1995) (0)
11 “Men of Color, To Arms!” (2012) (0)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Capital Punishment (1990) (0)
John Esten Cooke (1830–1886) (1995) (0)
Charlotte Forten (1837–1914) (1995) (0)
James Goodman and Louis Masur: A Correspondence (2012) (0)
Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld & the Dilemma of Reform (review) (2012) (0)
Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory (2012) (0)
"I Am Yet Among the Living": The Writings of Civil War Soldiers (2013) (0)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) (1995) (0)
7. Springsteen’s American Dream (2019) (0)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) (1995) (0)
1 Toward Emancipation (2012) (0)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) (1982) (0)
4. 1863 (2020) (0)
Prologue September 22 , 1862 Lincoln Tells a Story (2012) (0)
Bowing to the Right: Red Scare Politics in the McCarthy Era (2013) (0)
John William De Forest (1826–1906) (1995) (0)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) (1995) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
“Picturing History: American Painting, 1770–1930.” Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., New York, NY 10004 (1994) (0)
12 “It Can Not Be Retracted” (2012) (0)
Civil War Stories (2006) (0)
2. 1861 (2020) (0)
Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918) (1995) (0)
Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Reconstruction (2022) (0)
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) (1982) (0)
6 The Reactions of Scholars and Soldiers (2012) (0)
Epilogue (2020) (0)
5. 1864 (2020) (0)
Epilogue April 4, 1865 Lincoln Visits Richmond (2012) (0)
Seeing Civil War@@@America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink@@@Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (1991) (0)
Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial (review) (2012) (0)
Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's “Gulf Stream” . By Peter Wood . ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2004 . Pp. xv, 128. $24.95) .) (2009) (0)
2 Messages and Measures (2012) (0)
Editor's Note (2008) (0)

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