The 'Wicked Rebellion’ and the Republic

Dr. Johannsen was J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was a legendary educator and award-winning historian specializing in nineteenth-century American history. He authored numerous scholarly publications along with over fifty articles and chapters; the list of his writings in Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen runs twenty pages. Books include: Frontier Politics on the Eve of the Civil War; To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination; The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas; and Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension. Robert W. Johannsen was renowned for his authoritative biography Stephen A. Douglas.