Media
Jim has been featured in the New York Times for his first book, Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Richard Perry, The New York Times
Liberation as Death Sentence
Jim in The New York Times with Stacey Abrams, Heather Cox Richardson, Carol Anderson, Kevin Kruse, Heather Ann Thompson for their book on Voter Suppression.
For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History— or at Least the People Who Write It
Courtesy of Jaci Downs Photography
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Jim Downs, a history professor at Gettysburg College, is one of 2025’s Guggenheim Fellows.
Jim in The Hartford Courant when he was awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, which allowed him, after tenure, to return to school and gain training in medical anthropology and global health at Harvard University.