McKivigan, John

JOHN MCKIVIGAN is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and author of The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (1984). He also is the coeditor of The Historical Moment: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (1994), with Randall M. Miller; Sectionalism and Religion: Essays on the Slavery Controversy in the American Churches (1998), with Mitchell Snay; and Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, an...