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William J. Cooper Jr.

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William J. Cooper Jr.'s Degrees

PhD History Johns Hopkins University
Masters History Johns Hopkins University
Bachelors History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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According to Wikipedia, William J. Cooper Jr. is an American historian who specializes in the history of the American South, and is regarded as a leading expert on the life of Jefferson Davis. Life and career Cooper studied at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. After two years of service as an officer in the U.S. Army, he went on to spend his entire academic career at Louisiana State University.

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William J. Cooper Jr.'s Published Works

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The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856 (1978) (80)
Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to 1860 (2000) (75)
Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. (1990) (62)
The American South: A History (1990) (50)
Kaiser-Permanente's Medicare Plus Project: A Successful Medicare Prospective Payment Demonstration (1983) (28)
Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (1998) (28)
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders At The Helm Of American Foreign Policy (2017) (25)
The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829–30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South. By Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. San Marino and Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832. By Alison Goodyear Freehling. Baton Rouge (1983) (24)
The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890 (1968) (23)
Growth of a pharmacy school through planning, cooperation, and establishment of a satellite campus. (2009) (17)
A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (1986) (14)
Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861 (1998) (14)
The American South (1990) (13)
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 (2012) (8)
Junior Faculty Development Program Using Facilitated Peer Mentoring (2014) (4)
In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals (2009) (3)
The Critical Signpost on the Journey toward Secession (2011) (2)
Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855–1918. By John Milton Cooper, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. xxx + 457 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.95.) (1978) (2)
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics (2017) (2)
Liberty and Slavery (2019) (1)
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery (review) (2002) (1)
A statistical experimental design for comparison testing of analytical procedures (1983) (1)
John Quincy Adams And The Politics Of Slavery: Selections From The Diary (2017) (1)
Untouched but not Hushed: Slavery in Antebellum Southern Politics@@@The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856. (1980) (1)
Honoring the Fathers@@@Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward.@@@A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald.@@@New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. (1987) (1)
Thirty years after : an artist's memoir of the Civil War (1993) (1)
Approaching Civil War and Southern History (2019) (0)
The South: Old and New Frontiers, Selected Essays of Frank Lawrence Owsley (review) (2013) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 (review) (2012) (0)
A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848–1863. By Richard H. Sewell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xiii + 223 pp. Cloth, $29.50: paper, $9.95.) (1989) (0)
Black Carolinians: A History of Blacks in South Carolina from 1895 to 1968. By I. A. Newby. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. xiii + 388 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $9.95.) (1973) (0)
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Mental Hygiene movement (2005) (0)
Experiences related to belonging and involvement faced by students who are first-generation that live in residence halls (2015) (0)
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman (2005) (0)
Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew (review) (2012) (0)
A Chronology of Corrections (1957) (0)
Don E. Fehrenbacher. Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South. (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, number 31.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1989. Pp. xiv, 115. $16.00 (1991) (0)
Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary. Slavery in North Carolina, 1748–1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1995. Pp. xv, 402. $45.00 (1997) (0)
Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis (1986) (0)
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South, and: No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (review) (2012) (0)
Contributors to this issue (1944) (0)
Francis Warrington Dawson and the Politics of Restoration: South Carolina, 1874–1889. By E. Culpepper Clark. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1980. viii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95.) (1981) (0)
On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History (review) (2001) (0)
The New Political History Faces Southward@@@Parties and Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865. (1984) (0)
The ACR methodology: Medicare prospective capitation in an HMO. (1984) (0)
Richard Irvine Manning and the Progressive Movement in South Carolina. By Robert Milton Burts. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974. xi + 259 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.) (1975) (0)
The Politics of Slavery@@@Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860. (1984) (0)
contributors to this issue (1956) (0)
Cwbr Author Interview: We Have The War Upon Us: The Onset Of The Civil War, December 1860-april 1861 (2012) (0)
No Band of Brothers: Problems of the Rebel High Command (review) (2012) (0)
THE NEW POLITICAL HISTORY FACES SOUTHWARD (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics, by Jack P. Maddex, Jr. (1971) (0)
In the Cause of Liberty (2009) (0)
The History of Newberry County South Carolina. Volume One: 1749-1860, and: Thomas County, 1865-1900 (review) (2013) (0)
The South and Three Sectional Crises, and: The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (review) (2012) (0)

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