William Bruce Johnson

William Bruce Johnson is an attorney and author with a specialty in U.S. history. He was a litigation partner at Battle Fowler, a New York law firm, and served three years as deputy counsel of the New York NAACP where, among other responsibilities, he taught seminars on civil rights law to NAACP attorneys. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, holds a PhD from the University of London and a law degree from Rutgers University. In addition to articles in legal journals, Johnson has written three books: Lincoln’s First Crisis: Fort Sumter and the Betrayal of the President (Stackpole Books, imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), Miracles & Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal (Routledge, 2006). He is currently working on a book about the Constitution and the crisis of secession.