Donald Yacovone

Biographic Data

ID681194
NAMEDonald Yacovone
GIVEN NAMESDonald
FAMILY NAMEYacovone
SIGNATUREYACOVONE D
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Historical Society
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

    Open AccessDonald YacovoneARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Rather than a definitive end to the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney skillfully traces a confused, contradictory, and contentious surrender process that, in Virginia, endured until the end of June. Moreover, she finds that between seventeen thousand and twenty thousand of Lee's soldiers had escaped the Union grip and meticulously details how these thousands of Co…

  • Tricksterism, Anti-Semitism, and White Supremacy in The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Reassessment

    Open AccessDonald YacovoneARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…2020

    Because of its place in American and world literature, The Education of Henry Adams has become enormously influential, but we have not fully understood the full scope of its impact, its subversive contexts, and Adams’s role in sustaining and furthering white supremacy. Indeed, although most of the text is devoted to the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Adams never employed the term. More importantly, because of the intensity of h…

  • Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867; series 3; vol. 2; Land and Labor, 1866-1867

    Donald YacovoneARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867; series 3; vol. 2; Land and Labor, 1866–1867 Get access René Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, Kate Masur, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, Leslie S. Rowland, and Stephen A. West. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xxxiv, 1070 pp. $99.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 273–274, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau346 Publi…

  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKThe African Americans2013

    Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events

  • Lincoln on Race and Slavery

    Jr Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKLincoln on Race and Slavery2009

  • Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy

    Donald Yacovone, Steven J RamoldARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2003

  • Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

    William Seraile, Martin Blatt et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2002

  • Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment

    Russell Duncan, Martin Blatt et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    These fifteen original essays offer a wide-ranging festschrift to the North's most famous African American regiment and to the public sculpture dedicated in Boston in 1897, the one that Robert Lowell said “sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.” The anthology originated in the 1997 centennial recommemora-tion of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's monument to Col. Robert Gould Shaw. James Oliver Horton reviews the issues of black manhood at the marrow…

  • The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Donald Yacovone, Thomas Wentworth Higginson et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2001

  • Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North

    C Dallett Hemphill, Stephen M Frank et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. Baltimore, A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Ed. by Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone. New York and Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. By Anya Jabour. Baltimore Get access C. Dallett Hemphill C. Dallett Hemphill Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsy…

  • Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865

    Donald Yacovone, Noah Andre TrudeauARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862–1865. By Noah Andre Trudeau. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. xxii, 548 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-316-85325-9.) Get access Donald Yacovone Donald Yacovone Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…

  • Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer

    Donald Yacovone, Thomas J BrownARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1999

  • A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens

    Wilbert L Jenkins, George E Stephens et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens

    David A Cecere, Donald Yacovone et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1997

  • How the Irish Became White

    Donald Yacovone, Noel IgnatievARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1996

  • The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861

    Donald Yacovone, Stanley HarroldARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1995

  • The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home

    Donald Yacovone, Reid MitchellARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1994

  • Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation

    Julie Winch, C Peter Ripley et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation

    Janet Harrison Shannon, C Peter Ripley et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Ed. by C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, and Donald Yacovone. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. xxvi, 306 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2072-5. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-80784404-7.) Get access Janet Harrison Shannon Janet Harrison Shannon Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Search for other works by thi…

  • Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

    Donald Yacovone, Russell Duncan et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1993

    On Boston Common stands one of great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts black soldiers of Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marching alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. When philosopher William James dedicated memorial in May 1897, he stirred assembled crowd with these words: they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man. There on horseback among t…

  • Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871

    William H Pease, Donald YacovoneARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1993

  • The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America

    Donald Yacovone, Valarie H ZieglerARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America. By Valarie H. Ziegler. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xiv + 241 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-36864-2.) Get access Donald Yacovone Donald Yacovone Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/20797…

  • On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Letters from the Front

    Donald Yacovone, Virginia Matzke AdamsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

  • Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871

    Newell G Bringhurst, Donald YacovoneARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992

  • Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871

    Len Gougeon, Donald YacovoneARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Donald Yacovone. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Get access Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Yacovone Donald. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Len Gougeon Len Gougeon University of Scranton Search for o…