John Stauffer

John Stauffer is a leading authority on antislavery, the Civil War era, social protest movements, and photography. He is a Harvard University professor of English and American Literature, American Studies, and African American Studies. His 19 books include The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002), Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008), and The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On (2013). Two of his books were national bestsellers and several have won numerous awards. He is the author of more than 50 academic articles, and his essays have appeared in Time, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, among other places.