Faculty and Staff

Robert W. Johannsen

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History
Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone: (217) 333-4224, 333-4193
e-mail: rjohanns@uiuc.edu

Education and Degrees

B. A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon 1948
M. A. University of Washington 1949
Ph. D. University of Washington 1953
Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.) Lincoln College, 1983

Academic Appointments

University of Washington, 1953-54
University of Kansas, 1954-59
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1959-
Chairman, Department of History, 1963-67

Visiting Academic Appointments

University of Wisconsin, 1957
University of Oregon, 1960
Duke University, 1962
Stanford University, 1970
Arizona State University, 1979
Louisiana State University, 1984.

Lectureships

Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lectures, Gettysburg College, 1960, 1976
Olive B. White Lecture, Bradley University, 1977
Pettyjohn Distinguished Lectures, Washington State University and Spokane,Washington, 1984
Walter Lynwood Fleming Memorial Lectures, Louisiana State University, 1989
R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln Library and Museum, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, 1989
Frank Klement Lecture, Civil War History, Marquette University, 1994

Fellowships and Prizes

Pelzer Prize, Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1952
Koontz Prize, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, 1953
Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History, 1961
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967-68
Fellow, Society of American Historians, 1974
Francis Parkman Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of History, 1974
University Scholar, 1990-93 [University of Illinois]

Publications

Books

FRONTIER POLITICS AND THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955; Paper edition, 1966.

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973; paper Edition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997

TO THE HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS: THE MEXICAN WAR IN THEAMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985; paper edition, 1987

THE FRONTIER, THE UNION, AND STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989

LINCOLN, THE SOUTH, AND SLAVERY: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION. Baton Rough: Louisiana State University Press, 1991; paper edition, 1993

Books Edited

IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE: THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF
LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS IN THE OHIO CAMPAIGN OF 1859,
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959

THE LETTERS OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1961

THE UNION IN CRISIS, 1850-1877. New York: The Free Press, 1965.

DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL, 1845-1877. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966;2d Edition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1877. New York: The Free Press, 1970.

Published Lectures

LINCOLN AND THE SOUTH IN 1860. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lincoln Library And Museum, 1989.

THE 'WICKED REBELLION' AND THE REPUBLIC: HENRY TUCKERMAN'S CIVIL WAR. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1994.

Journal Articles

Thirty-seven to date.

Most recent: "La Joven America y la Guerra con Mexico [Young America and the War with Mexico],"HISTORIA MEXICANA, XLVII (1997), 261-84.

Chapters in Books

Nineteen to date.

Most recent: "Introduction" and "The Meaning of Manifest Destiny," in MANIFEST DESTINY AND EMPIRE: AMERICAN ANTEBELLUM EXPANSIONISM (edited by Sam W. Haynes and Christopher Morris; College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997).

Book Reviews

One-hundred sixty four to date.

Consultations, film

1979 Carl Sandburg, WNET-TV, New York (PBS)

1985-90 Florentine Films (Ken Burns), The Civil War (PBS)

1990-92 Lumiere Productions, WCBY-TBV, Lincoln and the War Within

1993-98 North Texas Public Broadcasting, KERA-TV, U.S.-Mexican War

1997- Kunhardt Productions, American Presidents (PBX)

Courses Taught

University of Kansas: History of the Trans-Mississippi West; Twentieth Century America, History of Kansas, History of American Territories

University of Illinois: Civil War and Reconstruction, The United States in the Nineteenth Century, America in the Age of Jackson.

Kansas and Illinois: Graduate Research Seminary and Problems Courses.

Ph. D.'s Produced: 27 to date.