Harrold, Stanley 1946-

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Harrold, Stanley 1946-

PERSONAL: Born October 16, 1946, in Morristown, NJ; son of Stanley C. (a civil engineer) and Jeanne E. (a teacher) Harrold; married Judy L. Benson (a teacher of mathematics), 1975. Ethnicity: “White.” Education: Allegheny College, B.A., 1968; Kent State University, M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1975. Politics: “Leftish.”

ADDRESSES: Home—Orangeburg, SC. Office—Department of History, South Carolina State College, Box 7473, Orangeburg, SC 29117. E-mail—sharrold@scsu. edu.

CAREER: Kent State University, Kent, OH, part-time instructor in history, 1974-75; Rutherford B. Hayes Library, Fremont, OH, assistant editor of “Hayes Papers,” 1975-76; South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, assistant professor, 1976-83, associate professor, 1983-87, professor of U.S. history, 1987—.

MEMBER: Organization of American Historians, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association, South Carolina State Employees Association, Phi Alpha Theta.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Endowment for the Humanities award, 2005-06.

WRITINGS:

Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1986.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1995.

(Editor, with John R. McKivigan) Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1999.

(With Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine) The African-American Odyssey, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2000, 4th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2007.

American Abolitionists, Longman (New York, NY), 2000.

Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2003.

The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2004.

(With Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine) African Americans: A Concise History, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2004, 2nd edition, 2006.

(Editor) Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader, Blackwell (Malden, MA), 2007.

Coeditor of the book series “Southern Dissent,” University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), beginning 1999. Contributor to history journals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, January, 2003, Oscar Williams, review of Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, p. 115.

Civil War History, June 1, 2000, Phyllis F. Field, review of Antislavery Violence, p. 164.

Historian, spring, 2004, Shirley J. Portwood, review of American Abolitionists, p. 142; winter, 2004, Stacy Robertson, review of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, p. 830.

Journal of African American History, fall, 2004, Jacqueline Bacon, review of The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, p. 365; winter, 2004, David Taft Terry, review of Subversives, p. 85.

Journal of Southern History, May, 2004, Kate Masur, review of Subversives, p. 423; May, 2005, Patrick Rael, review of The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism, p. 449.

Labor History, August, 2000, Otey M. Scruggs, review of Antislavery Violence, p. 357.

Mississippi Quarterly, spring, 2000, Manisha Sinha, review of Antislavery Violence, p. 334.

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