Johnson, Michael P(aul)
JOHNSON, Michael P(aul)
JOHNSON, Michael P(aul). American, b. 1941. Genres: History. Career: LeMoyne College, Memphis, TN, assistant professor of history, 1967-68; San Jose State College (now University), San Jose, CA, instructor in history, 1970-71; University of California, Irvine, lecturer, 1971-73, assistant professor, 1973-76, associate professor, 1976-84, professor of history, 1984-94; Johns Hopkins University, professor of history, 1994-. Publications: Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia, 1977; (with J.L. Roark) Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South, 1984; (with J.L. Roark) No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War, 1984; (co-author) The American Promise: A History of the United States, 1998; (ed.) Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents to 1877 (vol. I) and since 1865 (vol. II), 1998; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches, 2001; The Making of a Slave Conspiracy, 2002. Address: Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.