K. Stephen Prince
Charles Phelps Manship Professor
220 Himes Hall
Courses Taught
The United States to 1865 (HIST 2055)
The United States since 1865 (HIST 2057)
The New South (HIST 4072)
19th Century America (HIST 4058)
American Popular Culture (HIST 4077)
Graduate Seminars on various topics
Graduate Advising Fields
19th Century US
Southern History
Social and Cultural History
Historical Memory
African American History
Current Research Interests
Blackface Minstrelsy and the Birth of American Popular Culture (book manuscript in progress).
Voices of the American South: A Documentary History. Two volumes. Co-edited with Alejandra Dubcovsky, Antwain K. Hunter, and Jason Morgan Ward (under contract with University of North Carolina Press).
Interested in Directing Theses on
19th Century U.S.; Southern History; Social and Cultural History; Historical Memory; African American History
Education
BA, Oberlin College, 2004
MA, Yale University, 2006
PhD, Yale University 2010
Books
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Radical Reconstruction: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford-St. Martins, 2015).
Awards and Honors
Presidents Award, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (for The Ballad of Robert Charles)
Leila and Kemper Williams Prize for Louisiana History, Louisiana Historical Association (for The Ballad of Robert Charles)
Finalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize (for The Ballad of Robert Charles)
Honorable Mention, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Prize (for Stories of the South)
Notable Articles
“A Murder Among Minstrels: Show Business, Blackface, and Violence in Post-Civil War New York,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (April 2025).
With John K. Bardes. “‘There is No God in Heaven’: Religion, the Police Power, and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans,” Journal of African-American History (Spring 2023).
“The Trials of George Doyle: Race and Policing in Jim Crow New Orleans,” in Natalie J. Ring and Amy Louise Wood, eds. Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South (University of Illinois Press, 2019).
“Jim Crow Memory: Southern White Supremacists and the Regional Politics of Remembrance,” in Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, ed. Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles Over the Meaning of America’s Most Tumultuous Era (Louisiana State University Press, 2017).
“Remembering Robert Charles: Violence and Memory in Jim Crow New Orleans,” Journal of Southern History (May 2017).
“The Burnt District: Making Sense of Ruins in the Postwar South,” in Kate Masur and Gregory P. Downs, ed., The World the Civil War Made (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
“Marse Chan, New Southerner; or, Taking Thomas Nelson Page Seriously,” in Jason Phillips, ed. Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (Louisiana State University Press, 2013).
“Legitimacy and Interventionism: Northern Republicans, the ‘Terrible Carpetbagger,’ and the Retreat from Reconstruction,” The Journal of the Civil War Era (December 2012).