Joanne Pope Melish

Biographic Data

ID845805
NAMEJoanne Pope Melish
GIVEN NAMESJoanne Pope
FAMILY NAMEMelish
SIGNATUREMELISH J P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kentucky
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Once nearly invisible, slavery in New England has become an integral part of the region's public history, although it remains a stunning revelation to many Americans who still understand the enslavement of African-descended people as solely a southern phenomenon. Almost always, the story told is an eighteenth-century one. But New England slavery has a much older history. By 1641, Massachusetts had enacted a Body of Liberties that legalized slaver…

  • Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C

    Joanne Pope Melish, Marcia Chatelain et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) takes visitors on a spellbinding journey through the African American past and present. Patrons enter the 400,000-square-foot building on the ground floor, directly into Heritage Hall, a vast open space that houses an information desk, gift shop, coat and bag check area, and the Corona Pavilion theater, which shows introductory videos. At the north …

  • Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

    Joanne Pope MelishBOOKDisowning Slavery2016Cited by: 2

  • Public History and American Studies Pedagogy

    Open AccessJoanne Pope MelishARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2016

  • Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEJournal of American History2013

  • Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776–1863

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLESlavery and Abolition2012

    Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776–1863, Rita Roberts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2011, 261 + 10 pp., Cloth $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3708-6

  • Workers and Whiteness Revisited

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2008

    Research Article| December 01 2008 Workers and Whiteness Revisited Joanne Pope Melish Joanne Pope Melish Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 65–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joanne Pope Melish; Workers and Whiteness Revisited. Labor 1 December 2008; 5 (4): 65–68. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-026 Downloa…

  • Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    Journal Article Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery Get access Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. By Farrow Anne, Lang Joel, and Frank Jenifer. (New York: Ballantine, 2005. xxx, 269 pp. $25.95, isbn0-345-46782-5.) Joanne Pope Melish Joanne Pope Melish University of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…

  • Stories of Freedom in Black New York

    Joanne Pope Melish, Shane WhiteARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era

    Joanne Pope Melish, Mechal SobelARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002Cited by: 1

  • Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860

    Steven M Stowe, Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001Cited by: 26

    Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xx, 296. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.) In this ambitious and often compelling study, Joanne Pope Melish seeks to explore in detail, and then to reconfigure, our sense of the meaning of emancipation in New England between 1780 and the Civil War. Working with a wide field of sources--fro…

  • Of Politics and Publics

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLERadical History Review2001

    Radical History Review - 2001, Issue 79

  • People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History & Memory, 1630-1860

    Joanne Pope Melish, David JaffeeARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

  • The "Condition" Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North

    Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999Cited by: 6

  • Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution

    Joanne Pope Melish, Patricia BradleyARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution. By Patricia Bradley. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 184 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-052-4.) Get access Joanne Pope Melish Joanne Pope Melish Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 759–760, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…

  • Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780- 1860

    Walter Johnson, Joanne Pope MelishARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 5

    Journal Article Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xx, 296 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.) Get access Walter Johnson Walter Johnson New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/256…

  • The Meaning of Slavery in the North

    Joanne Pope Melish, David Roediger et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1998