Stephen B. Oates

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Stephen Baery Oates (* 1936 ) is an American historian and author. He was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .

He published in particular on American history of the 19th century ( Civil War ) and is known, among other things, for a biography of Abraham Lincoln .

He was one of the historical advisors for the Ken Burns Civil War television series ( The American Civil War ).

Oates received the Nevins-Freeman Award from the Chicago Civil War Round Table. His Lincoln biography won the Christopher Award and his biography of Martin Luther King won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award.

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  • With Malice Toward None: A Life Of Abraham Lincoln , London, Boston: Allen and Unwin 1978
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myths , Harper and Row 1984
  • Let The Trumpet Sound: The Life Of Martin Luther King , Jr. , New York: New American Library 1982
  • Trilogy on the American Civil War (the last volume on the Reconstruction era is in progress):
    • Approaching Fury: Voices Of The Storm, 1820-1861 , Harper Collins 1997, University of Nebraska Press 2012
    • Whirlwind Of War: Voices Of The Storm, 1861-1865 , Harper Collins 1999
  • Confederate Cavalry West Of The River , University of Texas Press 1961
  • Our Fiery Trail: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, And The Civil War Era , University of Massachusetts Press 1979
  • Biography As History , Waco, Texas: Markham Press Fund 1991
  • America Through the Eyes of an Artisan
  • Visions of glory, Texans on the southwestern frontier , University of Oklahoma Press 1970
  • Editor: Portrait of America: From Before Columbus to the End of Reconstruction , 2 volumes, Houghton-Mifflin, 6th edition 1994, 10th edition, Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2012 (with Charles J. Errico, collection of essays by various authors, from Oates The ravages of war about the American Civil War)
  • To Purge This Land With Blood: Biography of John Brown , Harper and Row 1970
  • William Faulkner : The Man and the Artist , Harper and Row 1987
    • German edition: William Faulkner. His life, his work. Diogenes, Zurich 1990
  • Woman Of Valor: Clara Barton And The Civil War , Maxwell Macmillan International 1994
  • Fires Of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion , Harper and Row 1975

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SURNAME Oates, Stephen B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oates, Stephen Baery (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1936