Jonathan Earle is associate professor of American history at the University of Kansas, where he also directs programming at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. He is author of the Routledge Atlas of African American History (2000; Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (2004), which won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award and the Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; and John Brown's Raid: A Brief History with Documents (2008). He is also coeditor, with Sean Wilentz, of Major Problems in the Early Republic (2007). His research interests focus on the antislavery movement and the political events leading up to the Civil War.

Lecture topics:

• Free Soil and the Rise of Political Antislavery in the United States
• John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the Making of an Irrepressible Conflict

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