John Sacher, Ph.D.

  • Associate Department Chair
  • Assistant Professor

E-mail
407-823-5501
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Education

Research Interests

Civil War, US South, 19th Century Politics

Selected Publications

Books

A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003). Winner of the 2003 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for best book on Louisiana History.

Articles/Essays

“’Our Interest and Destiny are the Same’: Governor Thomas O. Moore and Confederate Identity,” Louisiana History (Summer: 2008), 261-286.

"'A Very Disagreeable Business': Confederate Conscription in Louisiana," Civil War History (June 2007) vol. LIII, no. 2, pp. 141-169.

"'The Ladies are Moving Everywhere': Louisiana Women and Antebellum Politics," Louisiana History 42 (Fall 2001), 439-57. Winner of the Presidents Memorial Award for Best Article in Louisiana History, 2001

"The Sudden Collapse of the Louisiana Whig Party," Journal of Southern History 65 (May 1999), 221-48. Included in Carolyn De Latte, ed., Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Volume 4, Antebellum Louisiana, 1830-1860, Part B: Politics (Center for Louisiana Studies,2004), 260-81.

Awards

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time
10657 AMH2010 U.S. HISTORY: 1492-1877 Face2Face Tu,Th 1:30PM - 2:45PM
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22628 AMH6939 SEMINAR IN U.S. HISTORY Face2Face M 6:00PM - 8:50PM
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