Russell Duncan is a history professor in Denmark. He has written books about American history including the Reconstruction era. He was interviewed for the American Experience program. He has written entries for the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
He has given presentations on various American political subjects both historical and contemporary.
In 2021, Malcolm-Jamal Warner acquired the film rights to his book Freedom Shore about Tunis Campbell and other freedmen in Georgia. Warner planned to produce and star in the production.
Writings
- Where Death and Glory Meet
- Contemporary America: An Age of Anger and Resistance (2018)
- Journal of Archibald C. McKinley
- Transnational America
- Freedom's Shore; Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen
- First Person Past: American Autobiographies
- Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia
- Where death and glory meet : Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (1999)
- The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Pierce, co-editor
References
- "Russell Duncan". Georgia Press. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
- "Reconstruction Interviews - GBH Openvault". openvault.wgbh.org. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
- "Russell Duncan".
- Copenhagen, University of (April 26, 2007). "Result". research.ku.dk.
- Petski, Denise (May 24, 2021). "Malcolm-Jamal Warner Acquires Film/TV Rights To Russell Duncan's 'Freedom's Shore', Will Star & Produce".
- Contemporary United States: An Age of Anger and Resistance. Bloomsbury Academic. 20 February 2018. ISBN 9781137605573.
- Drago, Edmund L. (1988). "Russell Duncan. Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1986. Pp. xiv, 175. $20.00". The American Historical Review. 93 (1): 236. doi:10.1086/ahr/93.1.236.
- Perman, Michael (1995). "Russell Duncan. Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post—Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1994. Pp. xii, 278. $40.00". The American Historical Review. 100 (5): 1690. doi:10.1086/ahr/100.5.1690.
- "Duncan, Russell [WorldCat Identities]".
- Wachtell, Cynthia (2003). "Reviewed work: Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Russell Duncan, David J. Klooster". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 101 (1/2): 152–154. JSTOR 23384539 – via JSTOR.
- "Vanausdall on Duncan and Klooster, 'Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce' | H-Indiana | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.