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John F. Marszalek
Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Mississippi State University
email: johnmarsz@yahoo.com
Jeanne A. Kozmer Marszalek
The John F. and Jeanne A. Library Fund and Lecture Series, Mitchell Memorial Library Mississippi State University Library Fund at Canisius College |
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| A graduate of Buffalo’s Canisius College
and the University of Notre Dame, JOHN F.
MARSZALEK taught for five years at Gannon
University in Erie, PA. before coming to
Mississippi State University in 1973 where
he became a W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor
of History in 1994, retiring as Giles Distinguished
Professor Emeritus in 2002. A specialist
in the U. S. Civil War, the Jacksonian Period,
and race relations, he is the author or editor
of thirteen books and over 250 articles and
book reviews. He has lectured widely throughout
the nation and has appeared on ABC, CBS,
CNN, and NBC Television, the Arts and Entertainment
Television Network, C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, Showtime
Television, the History Channel, the Voice
of America, Mississippi Public Radio, and
radio stations throughout the nation. During
his teaching career, he taught freshmen survey
classes, undergraduate and graduate courses
in American history, and has produced over
20 masters and doctoral students. He was
the Mentor for the Schillig Scholars, the
holders of Mississippi State University’s
most prestigious undergraduate scholarships,
for four years until his 2002 retirement.
He is the recipient of numerous teaching
awards, and, in 1999 Canisius College named
him a distinguished alumnus. In 2002, the
Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration awarded
him the Richard Wright Literary Award (life-time
achievement by a Mississippi author). In
2004, the Mississippi Historical Society
presented him with its highest award, the
B.L.C. Wailes Award for national distinction
in history. He is co-executive director of
the Historians of the Civil War Western Theater,
and a member of the Board of Advisors of
the Lincoln Forum, the Lincoln Prize, and
the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. From
2007-2008, he serves as president of the
Mississippi Historical Society. From January
2004 through May of 2007, while continuing
his retirement from teaching, he was Mississippi
State University's Director and Mentor of
Distinguished Scholars (the holders of the
Schillig and Presidential Scholarships).
He and his wife have established Library
Fund endowments at Mississippi State University
and Canisius College. He is best known for his award winning books: Sherman, A Soldier’s Passion for Order (1993), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize and winner of non-fiction prizes from the Ohioiana Library Association and the Mississippi Library Association; and The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House (1998), winner of the Southeastern Library Association Non-Fiction prize. Both were History Book Club selections. His first book, Court Martial (1972), was made into a Showtime motion picture and reissued as a paperback, both under the new title Assault at West Point (1994). In 1995, President Bill Clinton presented Johnson C. Whittaker, the subject of this book, a posthumous U. S. Army commission in a White House ceremony. Marszalek co-edited (with Charles D. Lowery) The Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992), named by the Library Journal as one of the best reference books published in 1992 (and republished in 2003 in revised two volume form as The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights). In 1994, The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 was reissued in paperback, and in 1999 Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press was similarly republished. His book Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (2004) was a History Book Club selection and a finalist for the 2005 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. Sherman’s March to the Sea was published in mid 2005. His latest publication, A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow, South Carolina’s George Washington Murray, appeared in September, 2006. His publications have been the subject of major news stories in national newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today. A U.S. Army Vietnam veteran, Marszalek is married to the former Jeanne Kozmer, and they are the parents of three grown sons and have three grandchildren. |
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MSU Department of History
Sherman House, Lancaster, Ohio
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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
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