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John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, affiliated with the Department of History. His research focuses on Civil War and Reconstruction eras, slavery studies, southern history, and the history of racial thought. He has edited numerous books and serves as editor for series like The American Ways Series and Library of African American Biography.
Education includes an A.B. from Baldwin-Wallace College (1971) and M.A./Ph.D. from University of Kentucky (1973/1977). Courses taught span slavery, Civil War, historiography, and documentary editing. Current graduate advisees include Nathan Joffe (W.E.B. Du Bois studies) and Rachael Brown (forced labor in the American South).
Recent publications analyze Felix von Luschan's transatlantic racial research, the First Universal Races Congress, and Lincoln-Marx ideological exchanges. His work critiques proslavery historiography and explores African American military contributions (U.S. Colored Troops). He has supervised over a dozen master’s theses addressing topics like WPA ex-slave narratives, Confederate dissent in western NC, and SC Black Codes.
