Jonathan Earle

Office: 3642 Wescoe Hall
Phone: 864-9446
or (785) 864-1422
Email: jonearle@ku.edu

Short Curriculum Vitae

Jonathan Earle grew up in suburban Washington, DC and was educated at Columbia University (BA 1990) and Princeton University (MA 1992, PhD 1996). He is the author of numerous books and articles including Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (UNC Press, 2004), winner of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic’s 2005 Broussard prize and co-winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize; John Brown’s Raid: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008); The Routledge Atlas of African American History (Routledge, 2000) and co-author of Major Problems in the Early American Republic (Houghton-Mifflin, 2007). He is currently working on a book on the election of 1860 for Oxford University Press. His primary interests are the antislavery and democratic movements of the 19th Century and political history more generally. In support of his research, Earle has received major fellowships from the NEH and the American Council of Learned Societies. He spent the 2006-7 academic year as the Ray Allen Billington Chair in U.S. History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library and the 1999-2000 academic year as an NEH Fellow at the Huntington.

Earle’s teaching interests are broad in their scope and approach, and include courses on the nation’s sectional crisis of the 1840s and 50s, the early republic, and a popular undergraduate class on the history of conspiracies and paranoia in the United States. Prof.

Earle also directs programming for the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.