John C. Rodrigue
Associate Professor


225C Himes Hall
578-0459
jrodr12@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:   Reconstruction; Age of Jackson; Louisiana History; U.S. Graduate Readings Seminar
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   Southern planter families after the Civil War
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:   19th century Southern history, Reconstruction, Louisiana
BRIEF VITA

Education:  

B.A. Rutgers University; M.A. Columbia University; Ph.D. Emory University

Awards and Honors:  

Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, 2002

St. George Tucker Dissertation Prize, 1994

Notable Articles:

Introduction to reprint edition of Henry Clay Warmoth, War,Politics and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana (University of South Carolina Press)

"Black Agency and the Black Community after Slavery," in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum South (Oxford University Press)

"Labor Militancy and Black Political Mobilization in the Louisian Sugar Region, 1865-1868," Journal of Southern History 67, No. 1 (Feb. 2001)

"The Freedmen's Bureau and Wage Labor in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868," in The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of the South, Randall Miller and Paul A. Cimbala, eds. (Fordham University Press)

" 'The Great Law of Demand and Supply': The Contest over Wages in Louisiana's Sugar Region, 1870-1880," Agricultural History 72, No. 2 (Spring 1998)

 

About  Reconstruction in the Cane Fields  

Books:  

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 (LSU Press, 2001)

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series 3, Vol. 1, Land and Labor: 1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)