Faculty Profiles

Murphy, A. F. (n.d.). Politicizing the Home: The Loguen Family’s Underground Railroad. Journal of the Early Republic.

Murphy, A. F. (n.d.). Review of article "A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida in Indian Country, by Paul M. Pressly. American Nineteenth Century History.

Murphy, A. F. (n.d.). Jermain Wesley Loguen: Defiant Fugitive. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

Murphy, A. F. (2024). Race, Labor, and Slavery in Antebellum Irish America. In The Routledge History of Irish America (pp. 71–82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003278153-7

Murphy, A. F. (2024, December). The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review). The Journal of the Civil War Era. Project MUSE. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2024.a944719

Murphy, A. F. (2024, December). Review of The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Murphy, A. F. (2024, December 1). Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland. Journal of American History. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaae206

Murphy, A. F. (2024). “My Freedom I Derived from God”: Jermain Wesley Loguen’s Rejection of Freedom Purchase. Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 44(2).

Murphy, A. F. (2022, March). Review of American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective. H-Atlantic.

Murphy, A. F. (2021). Black Abolitionists in Ireland and the Challenge of Universal Reform. In R. A. Johnson & O. Power-Greene (Eds.), In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Murphy, A. F. (2021, October). Review of Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United For Abolition.

Murphy, A. F. (2021, October). Review of A Different Manifest Destiny: US Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2021). “It outlaws me, and I outlaw it!”: Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse, New York. Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, (42), 1–36.

Murphy, A. F. (2020, December). Review of Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and  the Coming of Civil War and “There is a North”: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Murphy, A. F. (2020, October). Review of Justice Daniel Cohalan 1865-1946: American patriot and Irish-American Nationalist. Journal of British Studies.

Murphy, A. F. (2020, June). Review of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. Reviews in History. London, United Kingdom: School of Advanced Study.

Murphy, A. F. (2019, November). Review of Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. Journal of Southern History.

Murphy, A. F. (2019, October). Review of Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. The Historian.

Murphy, A. F. (2019, September). Review of American Sectionalism in the British Mind: 1832-1863. Civil War History.

Murphy, A. F. (2019, June). Review of The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America. Journal of American History.

Murphy, A. F. (2019). ‘This foul slavery-reviving system’: Irish opposition to the Jamaica Emigration Scheme. In Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire (pp. 90–110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351111997-5

Murphy, A. F. (2019, April). Review of Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio. Civil War Book Review.

Murphy, A. F. (2017). Review of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Murphy, A. F. (2017, December). Review of Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Murphy, A. F. (2017, October). Review of Recaptured Africans. American Nineteenth Century History.

Murphy, A. F. (2017, April). Review of The Retreats of Reconstruction. Civil War Book Review.

Murphy, A. F. (2016). The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. Oxford University Press.

Murphy, A. F. (2016). 'This Foul Slavery-Reviving System’: Irish Opposition to the Jamaica Emigration Scheme, 1840-1842,”Ireland, Slavery, Antislavery, Empire". Slavery & Abolition, 37(3), 578–598.

Murphy, A. F. (2016). Wendell Phillips and the American Indian. In A. J. Aisirithe & D. Yacovone (Eds.), Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past. Louisiana State University Press.

Murphy, A. F. (2014). Review of William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform [Review of William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform, by E. Dal Lago]. Journal of American History.

Murphy, A. F. (2014). Review of The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858-1876 [Review of The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858-1876, by P. Steward & B. McGovern]. American Historical Review.

Murphy, A. F. (2013). ’Though Dead He Yet Speaketh’: Abolitionist Memories of Daniel O’Connell in the United States. American Journal of Irish Studies, 10.

Murphy, A. F. (2012). Review of We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less: The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction [Review of We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less: The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction, by H. Davis]. H-Civil War.

Murphy, A. F. (2012). Review of Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910 [Review of Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910, by D. M. Emmons]. Journal of American Ethnic History.

Murphy, A. F., Newman, R., & Mueller, J. (2012). Review of Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Civil War Book Review.

Murphy, A. F., & Ural, S. (2012). Review of Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Murphy, A. F., & Gallagher, G. W. (2012). Review of The Union War. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2012). Review of Daniel O’Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: “The Saddest People the Sun Sees” [Review of Daniel O’Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: “The Saddest People the Sun Sees,” by C. Kinealy]. American Historical Review.

Murphy, A. F. (2011). Review of Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest [Review of Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest, by S. M. Robertson]. Journal of American Nineteenth Century History.

Murphy, A. F. (2011). Review of John Mitchel: Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist [Review of John Mitchel: Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist, by B. P. McGovern]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Murphy, A. F. (2011). Review of Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South [Review of Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South, by M. T. Bernath]. Review of Politics.

Murphy, A. F. (2010). American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal. Louisiana State University Press.

Murphy, A. F. (2010). Slavery and Irish Nationalism in the American South, 1840-1845. In D. T. Gleeson (Ed.), The Irish in the Atlantic World.

Murphy, A. F. (2010). American Power, American People (Vol. 1). Nunn McGinty Press.

Murphy, A. F., Waugh, J., & Gallagher, G. W. (2010). Review of Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2009). Review of Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton [Review of Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton, by K. Wayne Howell]. Journal of Southern History.

Murphy, A. F. (2009). Review of Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War [Review of Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War, by G. W. Gallagher]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2009). Review of Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness Through Racial Violence [Review of Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness Through Racial Violence, by C. Skove Nevels]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2009). Review of The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State [Review of The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State, by C. D. Grear]. H-Civil War.

Murphy, A. F. (2008). Review of Confederate Daughters; Coming of Age during the Civil War [Review of Confederate Daughters; Coming of Age during the Civil War, by V. Ott]. Journal of Mississippi History.

Murphy, A. F. (2008). Review of In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson [Review of In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson, by N. Brandt & Y. Kroyt Brandt]. Civil War Book Review.

Murphy, A. F. (2008). Review of Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas [Review of Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, by G. Cantrell & E. Hayes Turner]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2008). Review of William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War [Review of William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War, by E. H. Walther]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Murphy, A. F. (2007). Daniel O’Connell and the ‘American Eagle’ in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America’s First Irish Nationalist Movement. Journal of American Ethnic History, 26(2).

Murphy, A. F. (2007). “Richard Davis Webb,” “Richard Allen,” “Father Theobold Mathew,” “James Haughton,” and “Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society.” In J. Rodriguez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World.

Murphy, A. F. (2004). ‘It Outlaws Me and I Outlaw It!’: Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse, New York. African Americans in New York Life and History, 28(1).

Murphy, A. F. (2003). Northern and Southern Reactions to Abolition. In I. Ness (Ed.), Encyclopedia of American Social Movements.

Murphy, A. F., & Cope Harrison, E. (2003, April). Review of Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering  Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, 1839-1846. The Southern Historian.