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Donald Yacovone was born on February 25, 1952 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone.
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In 1974, Yacovone received a Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University.
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In 1977, Yacovone received a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Yacovone received a Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in California in 1984.
(Born into Boston's elite and trained at Harvard Universit...)
Born into Boston's elite and trained at Harvard University as a Unitarian minister, Samuel Joseph May rejected his upbringing to become a central figure in the antislavery and antebellum reform movements. With this intellectual biography, Donald Yacovone has written the first modern account of May's life.
https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Joseph-May-Donald-Yacovone/dp/0877227608/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+Yacovone%2C+Samuel+Joseph+May+and+the+Dilemmas+of+the+Liberal+Persuasion%2C+1797-1871&qid=1596645896&sr=8-1-fkmr0
1991
(Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, fr...)
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.
https://www.amazon.com/Witness-Freedom-African-American-Emancipation/dp/0807820725/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Witness+for+Freedom%3A+African+American+Voices+on+Race%2C+Slavery%2C+and+Emancipation&qid=1596646521&sr=8-1
1993
(The writings of George E. Stephens thunder across the mor...)
The writings of George E. Stephens thunder across the more than a century that has passed since the war, answering that question and telling us much more.
https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Thunder-Letters-George-Stephens/dp/0252022459/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=A+Voice+of+Thunder%3A+The+Civil+War+Letters+of+George+E.+Stephens&qid=1596646726&sr=8-1
1997
(The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Robert Gould Sh...)
The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, located on Boston Common, stands at a symbolic crossroads of American history. A reminder of the nation's ongoing struggle over race, it captures the Civil War's higher purpose - the end of slavery - and memorializes those black soldiers and white officers who made common cause in the service of freedom. The monument and the saga of the 54 th Massachusetts remain powerful touchstones, inspiring enduring meditations such as Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead" and the popular film Glory.
https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Glory-Essays-Massachusetts-Regiment/dp/1558497226/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Hope+and+Glory%3A+Essays+on+the+Legacy+of+the+54th+Massachusetts+Regiment&qid=1596646942&sr=8-1
2000
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Donald Yacovone was born on February 25, 1952 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone.
In 1974, Yacovone received a Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University. In 1977, he also received a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in California in 1984.
Donald Yacovone has taught at Pitzer College, the University of Arizona, and Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He was an editor of the Black Abolitionist Papers project before becoming the senior associate editor at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he founded and edited the Massachusetts Historical Review. He also was a Manager of Research and Program Development at W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard University, as well as a senior fellows officer, and director of research and program development.
Yacovone has published his eighth book, Wendell Phillips, Social Justice and the Powers of the Past, a co-edited essay collection for the Louisiana State University Press. His previous work includes Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion (Temple); A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens (Illinois), Lincoln on Race and Slavery (Princeton), with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In 2013, he co-authored, together with Gates, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (SmileyBooks), the companion volume to the popular PBS series.
(Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, fr...)
1993(Born into Boston's elite and trained at Harvard Universit...)
1991(The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Robert Gould Sh...)
2000(The writings of George E. Stephens thunder across the mor...)
1997Yacovone says that he has spent his writing career examining the central flaws of democracy in the nineteenth century - slavery and racism - and the construction of masculinity. In both cases, history has not been what people, as a society, have imagined and both subjects reveal how much social values have changed and fall short of ideals. In his mind, in the case of black history, the condition of African Americans is the central barometer of democratic health. He believes, that how people choose to remember the past and the black role in it, is critical to their future.
Yacovone is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Association for Documentary Editing and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
On July 2, 1988, Yacovone married Cory C. Burke but later they divorced. The couple has a daughter, Natasha L. Yacovone.