Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, and ESQ.

The not-to-be-missed chapter of the volume is its model Introduction, which offers an impressively sizeable yet remarkably efficient survey of existing scholarship. The scholar is able to say something new because he pays careful attention to what has already been said, in a full-throated, interdisciplinary fashion. History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now is a strong, clear, and impressive example of how real scholarship gets done.

• Part I. De-formations of History 1: Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian 2: Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal Part II. Reformations of the Present 3: Emerson's Strong Present Tense 4: Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn 5: Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History Coda: #StayWoke

Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, and ESQ.

The not-to-be-missed chapter of the volume is its model Introduction, which offers an impressively sizeable yet remarkably efficient survey of existing scholarship. The scholar is able to say something new because he pays careful attention to what has already been said, in a full-throated, interdisciplinary fashion. History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now is a strong, clear, and impressive example of how real scholarship gets done.

• Part I. De-formations of History 1: Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian 2: Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal Part II. Reformations of the Present 3: Emerson's Strong Present Tense 4: Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn 5: Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History Coda: #StayWoke

Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, and ESQ.

The not-to-be-missed chapter of the volume is its model Introduction, which offers an impressively sizeable yet remarkably efficient survey of existing scholarship. The scholar is able to say something new because he pays careful attention to what has already been said, in a full-throated, interdisciplinary fashion. History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now is a strong, clear, and impressive example of how real scholarship gets done.

• Part I. De-formations of History 1: Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian 2: Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal Part II. Reformations of the Present 3: Emerson's Strong Present Tense 4: Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn 5: Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History Coda: #StayWoke