Sean Wilentz

Biographic Data

ID302530
NAMESean Wilentz
GIVEN NAMESSean
FAMILY NAMEWilentz
SIGNATUREWILENTZ S
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0009-0006-0058-6752
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS308
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX6

  • John Witherspoon and the Abolitionist Travail

    Open AccessSean WilentzARTICLETheology Today2024

    The historian Benjamin Quarles emphasized that comprehending American slavery's history requires recognizing the concurrent rise of the antislavery movement. This connection between John Witherspoon and slavery necessitates examining his involvement in the broader context of the transformative antislavery revolution during the era of Atlantic democratic revolutions

  • The Radicalism of Northern Abolition

    Sean WilentzARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2023

    The abolition of slavery in the northern states, generally viewed as a grudging and conservative series of reforms, had a radical core. By negating the chattel principle at its weakest link, abolitionists destroyed the main proslavery contentions and paved the way for the first abolition laws like them in history

  • The 1619 Project and Living in Truth

    Open AccessSean WilentzARTICLEOpera Historica2021

    The controversy over the New York Times’s 1619 Project is the latest in a set of recurring struggles over how American history ought to be taught and understood. The author tells the story of how he came to be involved in the controversy, and how he and a small group of liberal colleagues, objecting to grave factual errors in the project, found themselves increasingly stranded as the debate sharply polarized. Instead of doing their professional d…

  • The Conscience of a Conservative

    Open AccessBarry M Goldwater, C C Goldwater et al.BOOKConscience of a Conservative2021

    General Editor's Introduction vii Foreword by George F. Will ix Preface xxi Chapter 1: The Conscience of a Conservative 1 Chapter 2: The Perils of Power 7 Chapter 3: States' Rights 17 Chapter 4: And Civil Rights 25 Chapter 5: Freedom for the Farmer 33 Chapter 6: Freedom for Labor 39 Chapter 7: Taxes and Spending 53 Chapter 8: The Welfare State 63 Chapter 9: Some Notes on Education 71 Chapter 10: The Soviet Menace 81 Afterword by Robert F. Kennedy…

  • Grant

    Open AccessSean WilentzARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    For a very long time, historians vilified Ulysses S. Grant. Around the turn of the last century, an alliance of Lost Cause Confederate apologists and high-minded Brahmin reformers branded him a butcher in war, a corrupt incompetent in peace, and, always, a habitual drunkard; and the reputation stuck. Coming out of the 1960s, post–Vietnam War sensibilities rendered him a cold-blooded brute who invented the theory and practice of warfare as annihil…

  • No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding

    Sean WilentzBOOKNo Property in Man2018

  • General Editor’s Introduction

    Open AccessSean WilentzCHAPTERNew Industrial State2015

  • General Editor’s Introduction

    Sean WilentzCHAPTEREmerging Republican Majority2014

  • The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition

    Kevin P Phillips, Kevin Phillips et al.BOOKEmerging Republican Majority2014Cited by: 122

    One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968—and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century. Rightly or wrongly, the book has widely been seen as a blueprint for how Republicans, using the so-called Southern Strategy, could build a durable winning coalition in preside…

  • American Political Histories

    Sean WilentzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2007

    It now seems as if an eon has passed, and not merely a century or so, since the eminent historian Herbert Baxter Adams's seminar room at Johns Hopkins was emblazoned with this motto: “History is past Politics, and Politics present History.” Whereas political history once dominated scholarship on all of American history, professional scholars in recent decades have turned skeptical, and at times hostile, to studies that stress mainstream politics …

  • The New Industrial State

    John Kenneth Galbraith, James K Galbraith et al.BOOKNew Industrial State2007Cited by: 44

    The new industrial state , The new industrial state , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)

  • Andrew Jackson

    Walter Russell Mead, Sean Wilentz et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2006

  • The rise of American democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

    Sean WilentzBOOKThe rise of American democracy2005Cited by: 29

  • Uses of The Liberal Tradition: Comments on “Still Louis Hartz after All These Years”

    Sean WilentzARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2005Cited by: 1

    Phillip Abbott is too modest. His essay seeks to defend, against its many critics, Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America, which was published half a century ago. Abbott bases his defense mainly on his discovery that certain concepts of Hartz's—“the liberal enlightenment,” “the American democrat”—remain valid and helpful in explaining the politics of the 1960s and after. Yet the merits of Abbott's interpretation of that phase in our polit…

  • Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

    Sean WilentzBOOKChants democratic2004Cited by: 3

    Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City’s labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial pub…

  • Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages

    Sean WilentzBOOKRites of Power1999Cited by: 68

  • The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America

    Bret E Carroll, Paul E Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-century America. By Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 222 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-19-303827-4. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-19-509835-8.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84…

  • The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America

    Grant Underwood, Paul E Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • The Kingdom of Matthias

    Brian Donovan, Paul E Johnson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America

    Curtis D Johnson, Paul E Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995

    Prologue: two prophets at Kirtland -- Elijah Pierson -- Robert Matthews -- The kingdom -- The downfall -- Epilogue

  • Labor History: Out of Vogue

    Open AccessSean WilentzARTICLEInternational Labor and…1994

    There is something predictable in hearing a political scientist preach the virtue of political science. But in Ira's case there is also something personal, even poignant—for just below the surface of his remarks there runs a stream of self-consciousness about how he made it through the academic battles of the 1980s. Many of us have been harboring our own reflections about what happened, letting go only with occasional irritated book reviews or wi…

  • The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, "A Laborer," 1747-1814

    Ronald Schultz, Michael Merrill et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, “A Laborer,” 1747–1814. Ed. by Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xvi, 240 pp. Cloth, $34.50, ISBN 0-674-50287-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-674-50288-4.) Get access Ronald Schultz Ronald Schultz University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…

  • The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, "A Laborer," 1747-1814

    David A Zonderman, Michael Merrill et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993Cited by: 1

  • Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810

    Sean WilentzREVIEWThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

    Throughout the 18th century, New York and New Jersey were more reliant on slave labour than were any other northern colonies. Yet, surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to the nature of slavery in this crucial region. This book focuses on the transition from slavery to freedom that blacks in New York City and the surrounding communities made between 1770 and 1810. The author uses a wide range of primary sources - census data, tax lists…

  • The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820

    Sean Wilentz, Steven WattsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1989