John F. Marszalek

Marszalek was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Canisius College in 1961. == Career ==

Marszalek taught at Canisius College and Gannon University before moving to Mississippi State University for the remainder of his career. After 29 years as a professor, Marszalek retired in 2002 to become Professor Emeritus. In 1994 he was appointed the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor. From 1998 to 2012, he served as the Director of the Mississippi State University Distinguished Undergraduate Scholars Program. Research Over the course of his career, Marszalek has published more than 300 articles and book reviews and written or edited 13 books. His research has primarily focused on the American Civil War, specifically Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Henry Halleck, but he has also written on local Mississippi history, the history of racial conflict at West Point and the Eaton affair. Awards and other achievements Marszalek's book ''Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order'' was a finalist for the 1993 Lincoln Prize. The Mississippi Historical Society awarded Marszalek the Richard Wright Literary Award for lifetime achievement by a Mississippi author and the B.L.C. Wailes Award for national distinction in history, the society's highest award. On April 13, 2018, Marszalek won the Nevins-Freeman Award, the most prestigious honor given by The Civil War Round Table of Chicago. Showtime made Marszalek's book Court Martial: A Black Man in America, into the motion picture Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker. ==Publications==

• Court-Martial: A Black Man in America. New York: Scribner, 1972; subsequently published as Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Pub. Co., 1994). Made into a movie. • (With Sadye Wier) A Black Businessman in White Mississippi, 1886–1974. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1977. • (Editor) The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861–1866. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. • ''Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press''. Memphis State University Press, 1981. Revised ed., The Kent State University Press, 1999. • (By Douglas L. Conner, M.D., with John Marszalek) ''A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi''. Foreword by Aaron Henry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. • Grover Cleveland: A Bibliography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1988. • (Editor with Charles D. Lowery. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Foreword by David J. Garrow. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1992. • ''Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order''. New York: Free Press, 1993. • (Co-editor with Wilson D. Miscamble) American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 1997. • ''The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House.'' New York: Free Press, 1997. • ''Sherman's March to the Sea''. Abilene, Texas: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2005. • ''A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray'' Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 2006. • (Coeditor with David S. Nolen and Louie P. Gallo. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. • (With David S. Nolen, Louie P. Gallo, and Frank J. Williams. Hold On With a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. ==References==