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Stephen B. Oates (born 1936) is a former professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a selective research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study....
. He is an expert in 19th-century United States history
History of the United States

The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 - 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska....
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Oates has written 16 books during his career, including biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
, Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
, Clara Barton
Clara Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross....
, and John Brown
John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown was an United States abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859....
, and an account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. His Portrait of America, a compilation of essays about United States history, is widely used in advanced high school and undergraduate university American history courses.






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Stephen B. Oates (born 1936) is a former professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a selective research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study....
. He is an expert in 19th-century United States history
History of the United States

The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 - 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska....
.

Oates has written 16 books during his career, including biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
, Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
, Clara Barton
Clara Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross....
, and John Brown
John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown was an United States abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859....
, and an account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. His Portrait of America, a compilation of essays about United States history, is widely used in advanced high school and undergraduate university American history courses. His two "Voices of the Storm" books are compilations of monologue
Monologue

A monologue is an extended uninterrupted Oratory or poem by a single person. The person may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing other people, e.g....
s of key individuals in events leading up to and during the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
. He also appeared in the well-known Ken Burns
Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns is an United States director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of archival footage and photographs....
 PBS documentary on the war.

He was falsely accused of plagiarism
Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the use or close imitation of the language and ideas of another author and representation of them as one's own original work.Within academia, plagiarism by students, professors, or researchers is considered academic dishonesty or academic fraud and offenders are subject to academic censure....
 in his biography of Abraham Lincoln, but was later cleared by the University of Massachusetts and the American Historical Association
American Historical Association

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and teachers of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials....
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Oates received the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for his historical work on the American Civil War.

Books by Stephen B. Oates

  • Woman Of Valor: Clara Barton And The Civil War
  • Fires Of Jubilee: Nat Turners Fierce Rebellion
  • With Malice Toward None: A Life Of Abraham Lincoln
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myths
  • Let The Trumpet Sound: The Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Approaching Fury: Voices Of The Storm, 1820-1861
  • Whirlwind Of War: Voices Of The Storm, 1861-1865
  • Confederate Cavalry West Of The River
  • Our Fiery Trail: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, And The Civil War Era
  • Biography As History
  • America Through the Eyes of an Artisan
  • Portrait of America : From Before Columbus to the End of Reconstruction
  • To Purge This Land With Blood: Biography of John Brown
  • William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist
  • "The Ravages of War"


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