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Dr. John  Daly

Office: 136 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5685
E-Mail: jdaly@brockport.edu

Specialization

  • American Civil War, American religious history

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A., Rice University, 1993 (History)
  • B.A., University of Virginia, 1986 (Religious Studies/History)

 

Awards and Honors

  • SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
  • Alpha Phi Omega Professor of the Year Award, 2004
  • Honorable Mention: Annual Seaborg Award for the Best book on the Civil War (National Civil War Society), 2003
  • A.A.S.L.H. National Certificate of Commendation, 1998
  • Barbara Field Kennedy Award in American History, 1993

 

Courses Taught

  • U.S. History Survey (1517-1877, 1877-1990)
  • Film History
  • Religion in America: 1517 to Present
  • Civil War/Reconstruction
  • Slavery in the South
  • U.S. Thought and Culture (1517-1877, 1877-1990)
  • Southern History
  • History of Science
  • Modern World

 

Publications

  • "Holy War: Southern Religion and the Civil War," North and South, Volume 6, Number 6, September 2003.
  • When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War, 1830-1865. Religion in the South Series, Number 9, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002).

 

Current Projects

  • Dr. Daly is currently researching a book on Reconstruction in the South.