Richard Sewell
Professor Emeritus

eMail: rhsewell@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)231-1418
Office: 5126 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5011 Mosse Humanities

Education: PhD: Harvard University (1962); MA: Harvard University (1954); BA: University of Michigan (1953)

Specialization: 

19th century Political and Social History

Research Interests:

Civil War and Reconstruction

Selected Publications:

• John P. Hale and the Politics of Abolition (1965)
• Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 (1976)
• A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 (1988)