Robert Cook
Emeritus Professor of American History (History)

Selected publications

Article

Webb, Clive and Cook, Robert (2020) British attitudes towards the United States since 1941. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 18 (3). pp. 277-282. ISSN 1479-4012

Cook, Robert (2019) 'Not Buried Yet': northern responses to the death of Jefferson Davis and the stuttering progress of sectional reconciliation. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 18 (3). pp. 324-348. ISSN 1537-7814

Cook, Robert (2016) The quarrel forgotten? Toward a clearer understanding of sectional reconciliation. Journal of the Civil War Era, 6 (3). pp. 413-436. ISSN 2154-4727

Cook, Robert and Webb, Clive (2015) Unraveling the special relationship: British responses to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Sixties, 8 (2). pp. 179-194. ISSN 1754-1328

Cook, Robert and Webb, Clive (2015) Introduction. The Sixties, 8 (2). pp. 117-120. ISSN 1754-1328

Cook, Robert (2015) A war for principle? Shifting memories of the Union cause in Iowa, 1865-1916. Annals of Iowa, 74 (3). pp. 221-262. ISSN 0003-4827

Cook, Robert (2013) Bruce Catton, middlebrow culture, and the liberal search for purpose in cold war America. Journal of American Studies, 47 (1). pp. 109-126. ISSN 0021-8758

Cook, Robert, Noe, Kenneth, Shoaf, Dana, Weber, Jennifer and Sutherland, Daniel E (2011) Historians’ Forum: The American Civil War’s Centennial vs. The Sesquicentennial. Civil War History, 57 (4). pp. 380-402. ISSN 0009-8078

Cook, Robert (1997) Awake, the Beloved Country: A Comparative Perspective on the Visionary Leadership of Martin Luther King and Albert Lutuli. South African Historical Journal, 36 (1). pp. 113-135. ISSN 0258-2473

Cook, Robert (1995) "The Grave of All My Comforts": William Pitt Fessenden as Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-65. Civil War History, 41 (3). pp. 208-226. ISSN 0009-8078

Book

Cook, Robert J (2017) Civil war memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 9781421423494

Cook, Robert J, Barney, William L and Varon, Elizabeth R (2013) Secession winter: when the Union fell apart. The Marcus Cunliffe lecture series . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. ISBN 9781421408958

Cook, Robert (1997) Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. Studies in Modern History . Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., London and New York. ISBN 9780582215320

Cook, Robert (1994) Baptism of Fire: The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838–1878. Iowa State University Press, Ames. ISBN 9780813819389

Book Section

Cook, Robert J (2013) Fanfare for the common man? Political participation in Jacksonian America. In: adams, Sean Patrick (ed.) A companion to the era of Andrew Jackson. Blackwell companions to American history . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 532-548. ISBN 9781444335415

Cook, Robert (2013) Ordeal of the union: Allan Nevins, the Civil war centennial and the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s. In: Morgan, Iwan and Davies, Philip (eds.) Reconfiguring the Union: Civil War Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137336477

Cook, Robert J (2010) The Fight for Black Suffrage in the War of the Rebellion. In: Grant, Susan-Mary and Reid, Brian Holden (eds.) The American Civil War: The War Between the States (2nd Ed). Routledge, New York and London, pp. 209-227. ISBN 9780415990868

Cook, Robert J (2009) Grimes, James Wilson. In: Hudson, David, Bergman, Marvin and Horton, Loren (eds.) The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 196-199. ISBN 9781587296857

Cook, Robert J (2009) Kasson, John Adams. In: Hudson, David, Bergman, Marvin and Horton, Loren (eds.) The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 275-276. ISBN 9781587296857

Cook, Robert J (2009) Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan. In: Hudson, David, Bergman, Marvin and Horton, Loren (eds.) The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 286-288. ISBN 9781587296857

Cook, Robert J (2009) Merrill, Samuel. In: Hudson, David, Bergman, Marvin and Horton, Loren (eds.) The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 362-363. ISBN 9781587296857

Cook, Robert J (2009) Wilson, James Falconer. In: Hudson, David, Bergman, Marvin and Horton, Loren (eds.) The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 563-565. ISBN 9781587296857

Cook, Robert J and Salotti, Paul S (1987) Nascent Republicanism in Iowa: the Relational Database and Content Addressing Hardware. In: Moberg, Thomas F (ed.) Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1985. Paradigm Press, Osprey, FL, pp. 435-452. ISBN 9780931351075