R Blakeslee Gilpin

Biographic Data

ID950677
NAMER Blakeslee Gilpin
GIVEN NAMESR Blakeslee
FAMILY NAMEGilpin
SIGNATUREGILPIN R B
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Ideas in Unexpected Places

    Open AccessR Blakeslee GilpinARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • Visualizing Equality

    Open AccessR Blakeslee GilpinARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    The diverging fates of Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, the two most famous Black abolitionists of the 1850s, tell us much about U.S. history. One is rightly regarded among the most important Americans of any era, while the other is, at best, footnoted as the first Black author of an American novel. And yet, our familiarity with Douglass rests in no small part on his feverish embrace of antebellum technology. Although a man defined by …

  • Steven Lubet. The “Colored Hero” of Harper’s Ferry

    R Blakeslee GilpinARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    “Despite the best efforts of historians,” Isaac Marion writes in his novel Warm Bodies, “there are some things we’ll just never know.” While the past does not provide easy access to its forgotten corners, this often bleak aspect of the historian’s struggle is, happily, sometimes upended. In his new monograph, The “Colored Hero” of Harper’s Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery, Steven Lubet valiantly explores one of history’s u…

  • Death and the American South

    R Blakeslee GilpinARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Death and the American South Get access Ed. by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 280 pp. $95.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1158–1159, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav752 Published: 01 March 2016

  • Love Letters to Black America

    R Blakeslee GilpinARTICLESlavery and Abolition2013

    This article examines the role of black history in Charles White's visual aesthetic, from his history murals of the New Deal era, to his prints, lithographs and linoleum cuts of the 1940s and 1950s that challenged longstanding stereotypes of African-Americans and embraced an intimate realism populated by unexceptional Black Americans. This piece argues, however, that White's final coup was his incorporation of this realism with historical sources…

  • Slave Breeding

    R Blakeslee GilpinARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 2

    Amid the standard trials of conflicting source material and contentious historiography, historians of American slavery face additional challenges. In particular, slavery scholars must wrestle with a basic conundrum: Can the contemporary world possibly understand, on an intellectual or visceral level, the unparalleled brutality and dizzying contradictions of America's uniquely horrific system of labor, life, and power? Gregory D. Smithers has chos…

  • John Brown Still Lives!

    R Blakeslee GilpinBOOKJohn Brown still lives!2011

    From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists such as Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and o…

  • John Brown Still Lives

    R Blakeslee GilpinBOOKJohn Brown still lives!2011

    From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and othe…

  • John Brown's War Against Slavery

    R Blakeslee GilpinARTICLESlavery and Abolition2011

    John Brown's War Against Slavery, by Robert E. McGlone, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009, x + 451 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-521-51443-9 DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2011.568244 When the philosophe

  • The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

    Open AccessR Blakeslee Gilpin, Robert Gilpin et al.BOOKOrigin and Prevention of Major Wars1989

    Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is not an impossibility. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the pro…