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John W. Quist is an American educator and author. He is a professor of history at Shippensburg University.

Background

John W. Quist was born on April 8, 1960, in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Education

In 1986 John W. Quist received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.

Career

From 1992 to 1995 John W. Quist was a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University. From 1995 to 1997 he served as an assistant professor at D’Youville College. In 1997 Quist was appointed an assistant professor at Shippensburg University. Currently, he is a professor of history there.

He is the author of Michigan's War: The Civil War in Documents, co-editor of James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War, editor of Richard H. Abbott, For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South, and author of Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.

Achievements

  • John W. Quist is best known as the author of Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan and co-editor of James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War. His works received high appraisals from critics.

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Membership

John W. Quist is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Southern Historical Association.