A Man on Fire The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Egerton, Douglas R.

• ISBN13: 9780197554050
• ISBN10: 0197554059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-01-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Douglas R. Egerton has taught history at Le Moyne College since 1987; he has also held visiting appointments at Colgate University, Cornell University, and the University College of Dublin. He is the author of nine books, including the Lincoln Prize co-winner, Thunder At the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. He lives near Syracuse, New York, with his wife, historian Leigh Fought.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter One: Cheerful Yesterdays, 1823-1841
Chapter Two: The New Dawning Age of Faith, 1842-1847
Chapter Three: A Passion for Fires, 1848-1854
Chapter Four: Kansas Free Stater, 1854-1858
Chapter Five: Honor Among Confederates, 1858-1860
Chapter Six: More Willingness to Arm Than Formerly, 1860-1862
Chapter Seven: Minister Warrior, 1863-1865
Chapter Eight: Few Pleasures So Deep as Your Opinion, 1865-1877
Chapter Nine: Outskirts of a Public Life, 1878-1897
Chapter Ten: We All Need Action, 1898-1911

Conclusion
Index