William Cheek

Biographic Data

ID4858899
NAMEWilliam Cheek
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMECheek
SIGNATURECHEEK W
AFFILIATIONSSan Diego State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX1

  • A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas

    William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

  • John Brown: The Legend Revisited

    William Cheek, Merrill D PetersonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

    Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. In 1855, answering the call of his five sons to join them in the desperate struggle for freedom in the new terri…

  • A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith

    William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1995

  • The Town That Started the Civil War

    William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • Frederick Douglass

    William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65.

    John B Boles, William Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1991

  • John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65: Blacks in the New World

    David C Dennard, William Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1991

  • Civil Religion, Civil Activism, and Afro-American Identity: Antebellum Black Leaders and the Art of Biography

    Wilson Jeremiah Moses, David W Blight et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • White Over Black in Union Blue

    William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War

    William Cheek, David E SwiftARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War. By David E. Swift. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xviii + 384 pp. $35.00.) Get access William Cheek, William Cheek San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Aimee Lee Cheek Aimee Lee Cheek San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ameri…

  • John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

    David W Blight, William Cheek et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829–65. By William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. viii + 478 pp. $34.95.) Get access David W. Blight David W. Blight Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Page 298, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078694 Published: 01 June 1990

  • Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback

    William Cheek, James HaskinsARTICLEJournal of American History1974

    Journal Article Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback. By James Haskins. (New York: Macmillan, 1973. xiv + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.95.) Get access William Cheek William Cheek Universite de Provence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.2307/1918305 Published: 01 June 1974

  • The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902-1965

    William Cheek, Andrew BuniARTICLEThe American Historical Review1968

  • From Plantation to Ghetto: An Interpretive History of American Negroes

    William F Cheek, William Cheek et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1967

  • Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought

    William F Cheek, William Cheek et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1967

    Journal Article Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. By Earl E. Thorpe. (Durham, N.C.: Seeman Printery, Harrington Publications, 1967. xii + 210 pp. Notes and index. $7.75.) Get access William F. Cheek William F. Cheek University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, September 1967, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894845 Published: 01…

  • A Negro Runs for Congress: John Mercer Langston and the Virginia Campaign of 1888

    William F Cheek, William CheekARTICLEThe Journal of Negro History1967Cited by: 1