John F. Marszalek

John F. Marszalek is an American historian. He is a native of Buffalo, New York and taught at Canisius College, Gannon University, and Mississippi State University, where he became the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor in 1994. After twenty-nine years as a professor, Marszalek retired in 2002 to become a Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus.[2]

John F. Marszalek
Born (1939-07-05) July 5, 1939
NationalityAmerican (ethnicity: Polish[1])
OccupationHistorian, College professor
EmployerMississippi State University

From 1998-2012, he served as the Director of the Mississippi State University Distinguished Undergraduate Scholars Program where he has made a significant contribution to the development of Mississippi State's most distinguished scholars, serving them as both a mentor and a friend.[2]

After John Y. Simon's death in July 2008, Marszalek became the Executive Director and Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant project.[2] These papers are now located at Mississippi State University. Marszalek is now Executive Director Emeritus of the Ulysses S. Grant Association.[3]

Over the course of his career, Marszalek has published more than 300 articles and book reviews and written or edited 13 books.[2][4]

Marszalek received his bachelor's degree from Canisius College in 1961.[2] "[H]e received his masters and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, 1963, 1968."[5]

On April 13, 2018, Marszalek won the Nevins-Freeman Award, the most prestigious honor given out by The Civil War Round Table of Chicago.[6][7]

Publications
External video
Booknotes interview with Marszalek on The Petticoat Affair, March 8, 1998, C-SPAN
Presentation by Marszalek on The Petticoat Affair, November 17, 1998, C-SPAN
  • Court Martial: A Black Man in America. New York: Scribner, 1972; revised edition published as Assault at West Point (Collier, 1994). (Also made into a movie)
  • (With Sadye Wier.) A Black Businessman in White Mississippi, 1886–1974. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1977.
  • (Editor.) The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861–1866. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
  • Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press. Memphis State University Press, 1981.
  • (By Douglas L. Conner, M.D., with John Marszalek) A Black Physician’s Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi. Foreword by Aaron Henry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
  • Grover Cleveland, A Bibliography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  • (Editor with Charles D. Lowery.) Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Foreword by David J. Garrow. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1992.
  • Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order. New York: Free Press, 1993.
  • Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International/Collier, 1994.
  • (Coeditor with Wilson D. Miscamble.) American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1997.
  • The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. New York: Free Press, 1997.
  • Sherman's March to the Sea. Abilene, Texas: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2005.
  • A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 2006.
  • (Coeditor with David S. Nolen and Louie P. Gallo.) The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
  • (With David S. Nolen, Louie P. Gallo, and Frank J. Williams.) Hold On With a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.

References
  1. Frank J. Williams; William D. Pederson (2 January 2009). Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America's Greatest Leader. SIU Press. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-0-8093-2891-8.
  2. "John F. Marszalek | Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library". Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  3. Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library
  4. "John F. Marszalek". Mississippi State University, History Department, Emeritus Faculty.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. John F. Marszalek
  6. April 2018 CWRT Meeting
  7. Past Nevins-Freeman Award Recipients
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