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John P Daly , Ph.D

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5685
jdaly@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 334

Education

• PhD, M.A., Rice University, 1993 - History
• B.A., University of Virginia, 1986 - Religious Studies/History

Areas of Specialty

• American Civil War
• American religious history

Courses Taught

• U.S. History Survey (1517-1877, 1877-1990)
• Film History
• Religion in America: 1517 to Present
• Civil War/Reconstruction
• Slavery in the South
• U.S. Thought and Culture (1517-1877, 1877-1990)
• Southern History
• History of Science
• Modern World
• Modern Ireland

• Awards/Recognitions
  • Brockport Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
  • SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
  • Alpha Phi Omega Professor of the Year Award, 2004
  • Honorable Mention: Annual Seaborg Award for the Best book on the Civil War (National Civil War Society), 2003
  • A.A.S.L.H. National Certificate of Commendation, 1998
  • Barbara Field Kennedy Award in American History, 1993
• Recent Publications

  BOOKS

  • The war after the War: A New History of Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022). In the “UnCivil War” Series.
  • When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War, 1830-1865. Religion in the South Series, Number 9, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002).

  ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

  • “Science in the Civil War and Reconstruction.” Chapter in Timothy Kneeland ed., The Routledge History of American Science. New York: Routledge, January, 2023 
  • “Exploring Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment and the End of the Civil War,” Jolene Car ed., Wisewire, (New York) 2016.
  • “The Culture Wars, 1980-2014” in Gale United States History Reference, (New York) 2015.
  • “The Media Portrayal of the Middle Class,” in Robert Rycroft ed., The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty (New York) 2014.
  • “Proslavery Writing 1820-1870,” in American History Through Literature, ed. Janet Gabler-Hover (New York: Scribners, 2006).
  • “1976-2002: Looking Forward, Looking Back,” in United States History II (New York: Global Education Network, 2004).
  • Holy War: Southern Religion and the Civil War,” North and South, Volume 6, Number 6, September 2003.

Current Projects

• Dr. Daly is currently researching a book on the history of morality in the United States from the Puritans to the Culture Wars..