Jonathan Earle
Dean, LSU Ogden Honors College
Donald Cecil Delaune Professor
225-578-2735
Education
B.A. Columbia University (1990) magna cum laude
M.A. Princeton (1992)
Ph.D. Princeton (1996)
Awards and Honors
Hall Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-13
J. Michael Young Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Advising, University of Kansas, 2011
James A. Broussard Best First Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2005
Co-winner, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award, 2005
Named a “Top Young Historian” by History News Network, Dec. 2005
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, 2003
Huntington Library/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999-2000 academic year
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1999-2000 academic year
Books
He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013), co-edited with Diane Mutti Burke
John Brown’s Raid: A Brief History With Documents (Boston, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008)
Major Problems in the Early Republic (2e., with Sean Wilentz, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Jacksonian Anti-Slavery and the Politics of Free Soil 1824-1854 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
The Routledge Atlas of African American History (New York: Routledge, 2000)