Joseph P. Reidy

|nationality=American |education=Villanova University (BA)
Northern Illinois University (MA, PhD) |occupation=Historian |awards=Bancroft Prize (2020) }} Joseph Patrick Reidy (born 1948) is an historian of the American Civil War. He is a professor emeritus and retired associate provost at Howard University.

Reidy earned a BA in sociology from Villanova University, followed in 1974 by an M.A. from Northern Illinois University with a thesis titled ''Negro election day and the New England Black community, 1750-1865.'' He received his PhD in history in 1982, also from Northern Illinois University with a thesis titled ''Masters and slaves, planters and freedmen: the transition from slavery to freedom in central Georgia, 1820-1880.'' Provided by Wikipedia