Reviewers
Every issue of Civil War Book Review presents reviews by noted historians, critics, and authors, matching some of America's leading writers with books that enhance the public's knowledge or appreciation of the Civil War era. In addition, our pages often include reviews assigned to specialists outside of traditional Civil War fields or to independent scholars.
Reviewers from all issues are listed below in alphabetical order:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y |
Jennifer Abraham is the director of Louisiana State University's T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. She holds a master's degree in anthropology and wrote her thesis on plantation archaeology in Natchez, Mississippi.
Don E. Alberts is the retired chief historian for Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, president of Historical Research Consultants, and is heavily engaged in historical preservation, research, and writing on the Civil War in the Far West. His publications include: General Wesley Merritt: Brandy Station to Manila Bay, Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Journal of A.B. Peticolas, and The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West. He can be reached via email at Cactus0063@aol.com.
Erik B. Alexander is currently a research fellow with the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His dissertation is entitled “A Revival of the Old Organization”: Northern Democrats and Reconstruction, 1868-1876” (University of Virginia).
Ted Alexander is senior staff historian at Antietam National Battlefield. He has edited four books on the Civil War and written more than 100 articles and book reviews for publications such as Blue and Gray magazine, Civil War Times Illustrated, North and South, and the Washington Times.
Terry Alford is Professor of History at Northern Virginia Community College, a founding board member of the Lincoln Institute, and editor of John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir by Asia Booth Clarke. He is writing a biography of Booth for Oxford University Press.Felicity Allen lives in Auburn, Alabama. The University of Missouri Press is publishing her biography of Jefferson Davis entitled Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart.
Stacy D. Allen is a 20-year veteran of the National Park Service and currently serves as Supervisory (Chief) Park Ranger at Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee. He has published contributions in five books, authored three issues of Blue & Gray magazine, numerous essays, and book reviews.
Randal Allred is associate professor of English and teaches writing and American literature at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, where he also directs the Honors Program. He has recently published articles on battle reenacting as well as Stephen Crane. He is writing a book on battle reenacting that is due out in 2006, and is working on a book on writing the Civil War in American fiction.
Tyler Anbinder is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at George Washington University. He is the author of Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1992) and Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (2001).
Rod Andrew, Jr. is associate professor of history at Clemson University. His latest book is Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (University of North Carolina Press, May 2008).
Paul Christopher Anderson (pcander@clemson.edu) teaches at Clemson University. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).
William M. Anderson is director of Michigan's Department of History, Arts, and Libraries. He is the author of They Died to Make Men Free: History of the 19th Michigan Infantry (1995) and editor of We are Sherman's Men: The Civil War Letters of Henry Orendoff. (2000)
Rod Andrew, Jr. is an assistant professor of history at Clemson University. He is the author of Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001).
Dave Arneson first began reenacting in 1976 with the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He serves as an associate of the United States Civil War Center, delivers talks at conventions and to Round Tables, plays "way too many" war games, and is an instructor teaching computer game design at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.
Paul Ashdown is a professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee. He is the co-author of The Mosby Myth and The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest, and is the author of A Cold Mountain Companion.
Ted Atkinson is currently serving in a postdoctoral appointment as instructor of English at Louisiana State University. His recent article on Faulkner's Mosquitoes appeared in the fall issue of The Faulkner Journal.
Grady Atwater is the site curator of the John Brown Museum State Historic Site in Osawatomie, Kansas.
Edward L. Ayers is Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. His first book, The Promise of the New South, was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.
Jean Harvey Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College. Her books include Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (1987), The Stevensons: Biography of an American Family (1996), and the recently coauthored Civil War and Reconstruction (2001).
Erica L. Ball is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. She is currently working on a manuscript examining gender and northern black activism in the decades surrounding the Civil War.
Michael B. Ballard is coordinator of the Congressional and Political Research Center and University Archivist at Mississippi State University.
Diana Barrett is an independent historical researcher and scholar. She can be contacted at dbarrett@triton.net.
Ben L. Bassham, emeritus professor of art at Kent State University,
is the author of Conrad Wise Chapman, Artist and Soldier of the Confederacy
(1998), for which he recently won the first Henry Timrod Southern Culture
Award. He also edited Chapman’s Civil War memoir, Ten Months in the "Orphan
Brigade" (1999).
Bonnie Bates is a former editorial assistant at Civil War Book Review.
Christopher Bates is a teaching fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles who has published articles on both journalism during the Civil War and on Civil War reenactment. He can be reached via email at jrhtp@ucla.edu.
Russel H. "Cap" Beatie, a former army lieutenant, is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He has been a trial lawyer in New York City for almost four decades. Beatie's previous book is Road to Manassas (1961).
Terry Beckenbaugh is an assistant professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His research focuses on Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis and the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi.
John Beeler is an associate professor at the University of Alabama, specializing in modern British and naval history. He has published British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-80 (1977).
James Gordon Bennett has published two novels, My Father's Geisha (1990) and The Moon Stops Here (1994). His nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and The New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Louisiana State University.
John Benson is a Deputy District Attorney in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He is the past President of the Bucks County Civil War Roundtable and also lectures on the causes of the war. He is currently working on a biography on General Winfield Scott Hancock.
Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. is a reference historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA. He is the author, co-author, or editor of nearly a dozen books on the American Civil War.
Paul H. Bergeron is Professor of History Emeritus at the University
of Tennessee. He is the author of Antebellum Politics in Tennessee;
The Presidency of James K. Polk; Paths of the Past: Tennessee,
1770-1970; and co-author of Tennesseans and Their History and
is the editor of Volumes 8-16 of The Papers of Andrew Johnson.
Michael Berheide is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political
Science at Berea College, and he is convinced that the South has already
risen again.
L.M. Berkowitz is the webmaster of "Jewish-American History on the Web," an online archive of primary documents relating to the Jewish-American experience in the Civil War.
Michael F. Bishop is executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. The commission's web site is www.lincolnbicentennial.gov.
DeAnne Blanton is a military archivist at the National Archives
in Washington, D.C.
David W. Blight is Professor of History at Yale University and author
of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won
the Bancroft Prize in 2002.
Mary R. Block, Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Valdosta State University in Georgia, is completing a manuscript on rape law in nineteenth-century America.
Edward J. Blum is the winner of the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize given by the Southern Historical Association, author of Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, and co-editor, with W. Scott Poole, of Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction (Mercer University Press, ISBN 0865549877, $25.00 softcover). In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish Blum’s W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet – the first religious biography of this leading African American intellectual and activist.
Lori Lyn Bogle teaches social and cultural military history at the United States Naval Academy. Her latest book, Strategy for Survival: The U.S. Military's Attempt to Create a Resolute National Will During the Early Cold War, will be published by Texas A&M Press early next year.
Robert Bonner is the author of Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South and is completing Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood.
Angela Boswell (boswela@hsu.edu) is Associate Professor at Henderson
State University, the author of Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a
Rural Southern County, 1837-73 (2001), and the co-editor of Searching
for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries (2003).
D. Michael Bottoms is assistant professor of history at George Mason University.
Frank Edward Bourne is active in the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable
and the Kentucky Civil War Round Table.
Charles R. Bowery, Jr. is a United States Army officer and military
history instructor at West Point. He is available at charles.bowery@usma.edu.
Arthur L. Bradshaw, Jr., a retired infantry colonel and Civil War historian, works national security issues at the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College.
A former Oxford scholar and Territorial Army officer, Julian Brazier is Member of Parliament for Canterbury.
Myers Brown is the curator of military history at the Atlanta History Center in Georgia. Brown has an M.A. in public history. He may be contacted at mbrown@atlantahistorycenter.com
Thomas J. Brown teaches history at the University of South Carolina. He is the editor of Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Judkin Browning, assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University, has published “Removing the Mask of Nationality: Unionism, Racism, and Federal Military Occupation in North Carolina, 1862-1865,” in the August 2005 issue of the Journal of Southern History. His book manuscript on the effects of Union military occupation in eastern North Carolina is currently under review by an academic press.
Robert M. Browning Jr. is the Chief Historian of the U.S. Coast Guard. He is the author of three books on the Civil War including: From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War and Success is All that Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. He is currently working on a book on the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).
George E. Buker, USN (Ret.), is a professor emeritus of history at Jacksonville University. His books and articles on Florida history include Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (1997), Blockaders, Refugees, & Contrabands (1993), and "The Inner Blockade of Florida and the Wildcat Blockade-Runners," in the January 2001 North and South.
Josiah Bunting III serves as superintendent and professor of the humanities at Virginia Military Institute.
Michael A. Burlingame, Sadowski Professor of History at Connecticut College, is author and editor of many Lincoln-related books, including The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (1994). He currently is writing a multi-volume biography of Lincoln to be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Andrew Burstein is author of Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image (1999) and The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist (1995).
Orville Vernon Burton is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is the author of The Age of Lincoln.
William D. Bushnell, a retired Marine Corps colonel, is a professional book reviewer with more than 1,450 reviews published in thirty magazines and newspapers, and is an instructor at the University of Southern Maine. He lives on an island on the coast of Maine.
Kent Hughes Butts is a geographer and professor of political military strategy at the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College.
Frank J. Byrne is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Oswego. He is the author of Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the Antebellum and Confederate South (2006).
Chris Calkins is the author of numerous
works on the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns. He is a public historian
living in the city of Petersburg.
Eric Campbell has worked as a Park Ranger-Historian at Gettysburg
National Military Park for over 15 years. His book, "A Grand Terrible
Drama": From Gettysburg to Petersburg, The Civil War Letters of Charles
Wellington Reed, was published by Fordham University Press in 2000.
Major Dominic J. Caraccilo, DJC8275@aol.com, is an active duty infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He has authored two books: The Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne in Desert Storm (1993) and Surviving Bataan and Beyond (1998).
John Carlevale teaches classics at Berea College in central Kentucky.
Peter S. Carmichael is an assistant professor of history at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram (1995), and is currently finishing a study of student youth in 1850s Virginia.
Betty Carter is a professor of children's and young adult literature in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
Floris Barnett Cash teaches at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. An associate professor in the Department of African Studies, her most recent publication is African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936 (2001).
Albert Castel, a retired professor of history, is the author of more than ten books about the Civil War, including the prize-winning Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (1992) and William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times (1962), and co-author of Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (1998).
Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He is the author of The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film (2001).
Laurie Chambliss is the cookbook editor of Civil War Interactive (http://www.civilwarinteractive.com).
Dr. C. Stuart Chapman is author of Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life.
Mark R. Cheathem, a graduate of Mississippi State University, specializes in the Jacksonian and Civil War eras. He is currently revising his biography of antebellum politician Andrew Jackson Donelson for publication.
Michael B. Chesson is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. His co-edited, with Leslie J. Roberts, Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel (2001) won the Museum of the Confederacy’s Founders Award; and he edited J. Franklin Dyer, The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon (2003), and contributed an afterword to C. A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (2005).
Christopher Childers is a former editor of the Civil War Book Review.
Meg Chorlian is the editor of COBBLESTONE, the American history magazine for children. She has worked on many Civil War-related issues for COBBLESTONE, including an upcoming January 2004 issue on the "Navy in the Civil War."
Mark K. Christ is the community outreach director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, where among his other duties he works to preserve Arkansas's Civil War battlefields. He is the author of Getting Used to Being Shot At: The Spence Family Civil War Letters, editor of Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas and All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell: The Civil War, Race Relations and the Battle of Poison Spring, and co-editor with Cathryn H. Slater of Sentinels of History: Reflections on Arkansas Properties Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Jonathan M. Chu is Associate Dean of the Graduate College of Education and Associate Professor of the Department of History of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The author of Neighbors, Friends and Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Heterodoxy in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts, he has written on public and private debt in post-revolutionary Massachusetts, the legal and economic impact of the Revolution, Chinese Exclusion, and Daniel Webster's drinking.
John Cimprich, professor of history at Thomas More College, has written Slavery’s End in Tennessee, 1861-1865 and Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory.
Margaret L. Clark is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Louisiana State University. Her areas of study include life of common soldiers, home front issues, and social change.
Nancy Clayton, who lives in the Texas Hill Country, is the author of Strange but True Civil War Stories (1999 and Draw History Civil War (1999), both published for children by Lowell House Juvenile. Her current work-in-progress is a complete bibliography of children's Civil War literature, Civil War Books for Children.
Barbara Cloud is a Professor of Journalism Emeritus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and editor of Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography by James Anderson Slover (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). Her current work in progress includes Western Destiny: The Coming of the Frontier Press, part of the Visions of the American Press series, edited by David Abrahamson as a Medill imprint for the Northwestern University Press.
Bob Collins is president of the Jersey Shore Civil War Roundtable.
Jeffery B. Cook is chair and assistant professor of history at Nyack College. A contributor to the West Virginia Encyclopedia and West Virginia History, he currently is at work on a documentary history of the United States and a biography of Bourbon Democrat Aretas Brooks Fleming.
B. Franklin Cooling is Professor of National Security Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington D.C. Author of numerous works on the Civil War, his latest, Counter Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam was recently published in the University of Nebraska Press series Campaigns of the Civil War. He is currently finishing a trilogy on Civil War Operations, Stabilization, and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky.
William J. Cooper, Jr. is a Boyd Professor of history at Louisiana State University.
Janet L. Coryell is Professor of History at Western Michigan University, specializing in U.S. women's history, antebellum partisan politics, and Civil War history. She is currently completing a textbook with Nora Faires entitled Women and America: An Integrated History for McGraw-Hill Publications.
Dr. John M. Coski is a historian and Director of Library and Research at The Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem (2005).
Sam Craghead is the Public Relations Specialist for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.
Janet M. Cramer is an assistant professor in the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of "Woman as Citizen: Race, Class, and the Discourse of Women's Citizenship, 1894-1905," in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs (165, March 1998), and two chapters on women and journalism in The Civil War and the Press (Rutgers Transaction Press).
Daniel W. Crofts is the author of Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989), Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (1992), and Cobb’s Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, 1842-1872 (1997). He is completing a manuscript entitled The Public Man Revealed: William Henry Hurlbert and the Coming of the Civil War.
Richard Croker is the author of To Make Men Free, A Novel of the Battle of Antietam (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2004). The sequel, No Greater Courage, A Novel of the Battle of Fredericksburg is due out in March, 2006 from the same publisher. Croker is an independent documentary filmmaker who lives in Marietta, Georgia.
Cornelius Cronin is a Career Instructor in the English Department at Louisiana State University, where he teaches a course on the literature of modern warfare and writes on literature and film from the Vietnam conflict.
Ian Crowe, a founding director of the Edmund Burke Society of America, is currently the senior editor of The University Bookman and program directorat the Russell Kirk Center, Michigan. He was educated at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and at the University of Bristol.
Edward R. Crowther is Professor of History at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. He is the author of Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War and many articles and reviews.
Michael Kent Curtis teaches at Wake Forest University School of Law. He is the author of No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights, Free Speech: The People’s Darling Privilege, and the law review article “John Bingham and the Story of American Liberty: the Lost Cause Meets the ‘Lost Clause.’”
Jane Dailey is Associate Professor of History at The University of Chicago. Her books include Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia and Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights.
Timothy Daiss is a journalist, freelance writer, and author of In the Saddle: Exploits of the 5th Georgia Cavalry During the Civil War (Schiffer Publishing).
Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and author of the forthcoming Southern Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861 (Louisiana State University Press, 2005).
John Daley is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Pittsburg State University in southeastern Kansas.
Arlyn Danielson is collections manager at Newscum in Arlington, Virginia, and an avid student of the social history of the Civil War.
William C. Davis is a past editor of American History Illustrated and Civil War Times Illustrated, and a prolific Civil War author. His latest book, Lincoln's Men, is reviewed in this issue.
Stephen Davis, of Atlanta, is author of Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions, published this spring by Scholarly Resources, Inc.
Joseph G. Dawson III is professor of history at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, where he teaches courses on the American Civil War and military history.
Mary A. DeCredico is Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Her current research is on Confederate Richmond.
Christine Dee is a visiting assistant professor in the history department of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her Ph.D. dissertation, Land Worth Fighting For: Scioto County, Ohio and Madison County, Alabama During the American Civil War was completed in 2002 at Harvard University under the direction of the late William E. Gienapp. She is currently revising the manuscript for publication.
Jeannine Marie DeLombard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. The author of Slavery on Trial: Law Abolitionism, and Print Culture (UNC Press, 2007), she is currently completing a book tentatively titled Apprehensions: Reading American Literature in the Shadow of the Gallows.
John E. Deppen received a Master of Arts degree in Civil War studies from American Military Univeristy in August 2000. He is a past president of the Susquehanna Civil War Round Table.
Sue DeVille, a published author and student of Civil War history, serves as director of the Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Brian Dirck is a professor of history at Anderson University.
Peter J. D'Onofrio, Ph.D. is the president of the Society of Civil War Surgeons, Inc., an international organization dedicated to the study of Civil War era medicine. He received his doctorate in 1998, with a specialization in the American Civil War. Dr. D'Onofrio is the editor of the Society's quarterly publication, The Journal of Civil War Medicine.
Kevin Dougherty, an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the author of The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis and Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience.
Mark H. Dunkelman's latest book is Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).
Jean Marc Duplantier is a graduate student in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University. He recently created a exhibition at LSU's Hill Memorial Library entitled "Creole Echoes: The Franco-phone Music and Literature of Nineteenth Century New Orleans."
Andrew Duppstadt holds a BA and MA in History from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He is Assistant Curator of Education for the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and serves as an Adjunct Instructor of History at two community colleges.
Thomas Dyja is the author of three novels, Play for a Kingdom, Meet John Trow and The Moon in Our Hands, which will be reprinted in paperback by Carroll & Graf in February 2006.
Sue Eakin, a retired professor of history at Louisiana State University at Alexandria, co-edited Solomon Northrup's Twelve Years a Slave (1968).
Gary T. Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University. He teaches a variety of courses on the American South and has published articles and essays in Agricultural History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and for The University of Tennessee Press.
Jay Dearborn Edwards is Kniffen Professor of Anthropology at Louisiana State University. His publications include editing Plantations by the River, Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles, Parish, Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859 (2001).
David Eicher is the author of The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (2001)and coauthor of Civil War High Commands (2001).
Clifton Ellis is Associate Dean for Academics and Associate Professor of Architectural History in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University. He is co-editor with Rebecca Ginsburg of Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery (Yale, 2010).
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has authored many books, including Democracy on Trial, a New York Times Notable Book for 1995.
Stanley L. Engerman is the John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is co-author with Robert W. Fogel of Time on the Cross (1974) and author of Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (2007).
Stephen D. Engle is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University and author of Struggle for the Heartland (2001). He is currently working on a book-length project involving Lincoln and the Union war governors.
Patience Essah is associate professor of history at Auburn University.
Nicole Etcheson is Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University. She is the author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (2004) and she is at work on "Unionists, Copperheads, and Exodusters: A Northern Community during the Civil War Era," to be published by the University Press of Kansas.
Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. His recent books are “What Shall We Do with the Negro?”: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009) and the forthcoming The Confederacy: The Slaveholders’ Failed Venture (Praeger/ABC-CLIO).
Eric Ethier formerly served as an editor for Civil War Times Illustrated and American History magazine.
William Etter, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at Irvine Valley College. His article on Alfred Bellard's Civil War memoir will appear in the April 2005 issue of Prose Studies, and he has recently completed a book manuscript entitled "The Good Body": Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature.
Don Evans is a newspaper editor and the author of Locust Alley: A Novel of the Civil War (2000).
John E. Fairweather and his family live in South Portland, Maine. He reviews books for several publications, is a writer of short stories, and an access producer with SPC-TV in South Portland.
James O. Farmer, Jr., is the June Rainsford Henderson Professor of Southern and Local History at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He is the author of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values and articles on the woman suffrage campaign and early civil rights movement in South Carolina, and the Civil War reenactment hobby, among others.
Collen H. Fava is a former editor of Civil War Book Review.
Timothy J. Feldhausen is a former naval officer who was once an engineer himself. He has taught history at the U.S. Naval Academy and is now studying law.
Daniel Feller is professor of history and Editor of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840.
Dr. Noel Fisher is the author of War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869 and of a forthcoming work on the Civil War in the Great Smoky Mountains region.
Michael W. Fitzgerald,
Professor of History at St. Olaf College, is most recently the author of Splendid
Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (Ivan R. Dee, 2007).
Andre M. Fleche
is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia studying under
Gary W. Gallagher. He is author of the forthcoming article "Shoulder
to Shoulder as Comrades Tired: Black and White Union Veterans and Civil War
Memory," in Civil War History, and is completing a dissertation on European
revolutions and the American Civil War.
Kenneth E. Foote
is professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of
Colorado at Boulder. He writes on American landscape history, memory, and
commemoration. His 1997 book Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence
and Tragedy won the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American
Geographies.
Lorien Foote is
an Associate Professor at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author
of Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century
Reform and is currently writing a book about manhood and military justice
in the Union Army.
Estelle Ford-Williamson,
who writes in the Atlanta area, is author of Abbeville Farewell: A Novel
of Early Atlanta and North Georgia. Her articles and stories have appeared
in literary journals, and she is working on a second novel, Rising Fawn. Gaines M. Foster is T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana
State University and author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the
Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913.
John D. Fowler is an Associate Professor of History and the Director
of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University.
He is the author of Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry Regiment, CSA (University of Tennessee Press, 2004) and The
Confederate Experience Reader (Routledge Press, 2007). He is completing
a study of Tennessee during the Civil War Era.
Robert H. Fowler,
the founder and former editor/publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated,
is the author of several widely acclaimed historical novels.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
taught southern history and literature at Emory University. Her books include
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South.
She and Eugene D. Genovese are finishing The Mind of the Master Class,
a study of the intellectual and cultural life of the southern slaveholders.
Jason Mann Frawley
is a Ph.D. student at Texas Christian University, where he studies under the
tutelage of Professor Steven E. Woodworth. He is currently co-editing and
co-writing two books with his major professor and working on completing his
coursework before writing his dissertation.
Frank R. Freemon,
M.D., is the author of Microbes and Minie Balls (1993), an annotated
bibliography of Civil War medicine, and Gangrene and Glory (1998),
the full story of northern versus southern medicine during the great American
fratricide.
Derek W. Frisby
is an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University, editor of
the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, and USMC veteran of Operation
Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He has published several articles and chapters
on the Civil War in Tennessee and continues his work on related projects,
including revising his 2004 dissertation, “Homemade Yankees: West Tennessee
Civil War Unionists in the Civil War Era,” for publication with the University
of Tennessee Press.
Mary Bahr Fritts,
author of If Nathan Were Here (2000) and The Memory Box (1995),
has written more than 150 stories and articles. She currently is working under
a grant to finish a book on Abraham Lincoln.
Meg Galante-DeAngelis
teaches at the University of Connecticut. As a social historian, her search
for a glimpse at our ancestors as people has led her to study the lives of
the soldiers of the Civil War and their families.
Gary W. Gallagher
is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War
at the University of Virginia. His books include The Confederate War
(1997) and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (1998).
J. Matthew Gallman
is a professor of history at the University of Florida. The author of various
publications on the Civil War home front, his most recent book is America's
Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Oxford, 2006). He is
currently working on a history of satire and dissent in the North during the
Civil War..
James P. Gannon,
a descendent of an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate soldier, is a
former newspaper writer and editor, and author of Irish Rebels, Confederate
Tigers: A History of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865 (1998). He
lives in Virginia where he owns a bookstore.
Sarah E. Gardner,
associate professor of history at Mercer University, is the author of Blood
and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937,
published by the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently working
on a book-length manuscript that examines the politics of southern literature
and national book reviews during the first half of the twentieth century.
Nancy Scripture Garrison
is a guest lecturer in Women's Studies at Curry College and a contributor
to North & South magazine. She is the author of With Courage and
Delicacy (1999), an analysis of the U.S. Sanitary Commission and its elite
transport nurses during the Peninsula campaign.
Dr. David J. Gerleman
is a lecturer in American history at George Mason University, and is active
in numerous history organizations in Washington, DC. He is currently completing
a book manuscript entitled Mount and Master: The Civil War Cavalry Trooper
and His Horse--A Study of Care, Treatment, and Use, 1861-1866.
James Gillispie
currently teaches history at Sampson Community College in Clinton, North Carolina.
He is the author of Andersonvilles of the North (University of North
Texas Press, 2008) and is currently researching Eastern North Carolina in
the Civil War. His regimental history of the 18th North Carolina is under
contract with McFarland Publishers.
David Gleeson
is an associate professor of history and a co-director of the Program in
the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston.
He is currently working on a book on Irish immigrants in the Confederacy
and their participation in the Lost Cause. Currently writing
a biography of Jimmy Carter, E. Stanly Godbold is the author of the
prize-winning Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William
Holland Thomas (October 2001).
Timothy S. Good,
author of We Saw Lincoln Shot, writes from Springfield Illinois.
Lesley J. Gordon,
assistant professor of history at the University of Akron, is the author of
General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (1998) and co-editor of
the forthcoming Intimate Strategies: Marriages of the Civil War.
Kathleen Gorman
is associate professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Warren E. Grabau
earned a Master of Science in Geology/Geography from Michigan State University
in 1950 and worked in a variety of related fields until 1986, at which time
he traded his vocation (science) for his avocation (military history).
Kent Gramm is Program
Director for the Seminary Ridge Historical Preservation Foundation in Gettysburg
and teaches as Wheaton College (IL). He is the author of Gettysburg: A
Meditation on War and Values, November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg
and Somebody's Darling: Essays on the Civil War.
Amy S. Greenberg
is Professor of American History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University,
is the author of Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
(2005) and Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century
City (1998). She is currently working on a history of the U.S.-Mexico
War with an emphasis on the antiwar movement, to be published by Alfred E.
Knopf/Vintage Books.
Ronald J. Grele
served for almost 20 years as the director of the Columbia University Oral
History Research Office. He is the author of Envelopes of Sound: the Art
of Oral History, and editor of Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History:
The International Annual of Oral History (1990).
W. Todd Groce is executive director if the Georgia Historical Society
in Savannah. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee
and is the author of Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and
the Civil War, 1860-1870 (1990).
Winston Groom is
the author of 13 books, including Forrest Gump and Shrouds of Glory,
a history of the Battle of Nashville. He will have two books published this
year: a history of football at the University of Alabama and El Paso,
a novel set in northern Mexico in 1915-16.
Dr. Jennifer L. Gross
is a professor of American history at Jacksonville State University. Her research
and teaching interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, the American
South, Women’s History, and the History of Africa. She is currently working
on a book assessing the experience of Confederate widowhood in the postbellum
South.
William S. Gross
is a retired Army Reserve Colonel and Emergency Management Coordinator for
the City of Dallas now working in the private sector. A Registered Professional
Engineer in the State of Texas, he has a wide range of experience in the military,
engineering design and construction and in disaster response and recovery.
Robert Gudmestad
is an assistant professor of history at Colorado State University. The author
of A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
(2003), he is writing a book about steamboats and the growth of the cotton
kingdom.
Kevin R. C. Gutzman,
J.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of American history at Western
Connecticut State University and the author of Virginia’s American
Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840 and, with Thomas E. Woods,
Jr., of Who Killed the Constitution? (forthcoming in July 2008).
Kurt Hackemer is
a professor of history at the University of South Dakota, where his research
focuses on Civil War military and naval affairs. He is currently working on
a history of Dakota Territory and its interaction with the external but omnipresent
Civil War.
Fiona Halloran is
an assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University. Her current
project is a biography of Thomas Nast.
Debi Hamlin is a
Ph.D. candidate in history at Duke University and assistant to the historian
John Hope Franklin. She is co-editor of Allen Parker's Recollections of
Slavery Time (forthcoming in 2002), has published several biographical
essays, and is currently writing her dissertation.
Stephen L. Hansen
is Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost for Research at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville. His publications have focused primarily
upon Illinois during the Civil War Era.
James D. Hardy, Jr.
is a professor of history in the Honors College at Louisiana State University
and has published several books on both history and literature, including
one on baseball.
Michael Hargraves
has served for 12 years as a cataloguer in the Department of Photographs at
the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.
Judith E. Harper
is also the author of Susan B. Anthony: A Biographical Companion (ABC-CLIO,
1998). Her newest book, Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia,
will be published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis) in October 2003.
Margaret C. Harrison
is a reference librarian at the State Library of Louisiana.
Dale F. Harter is
the assistant editor of Virginia Cavalcade, the quarterly magazine
of Virginia history and culture published by the Library of Virginia.
Alec Hasenson is
author of The Golden Arrow (1970) and The History of Dover Harbour
(1980). He is editor of Crossfire, the newsletter of the American Civil
War Round Table in London.
Herman Hattaway recently
published, with LSU art professor A.J. Meek, From Gettysburg to Vicksburg:
the First Five Battlefield Parks (2001).
Jeanne T. Heidler is Professor of History at the United States
Air Force Academy. Along with David S. Heidler, she is the editor of the
five-volume Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. She and David
S. Heidler have recently completed a biography of Henry Clay that will be
published by Random House later this year.
Charles F. Herberger,
professor emeritus of Nasson College, is editor of A Yankee at Arms: The
Diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers
and author of books and articles on historical topics.
Martin J. Hershock
is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social
Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the co-editor of The
History of Michigan Law and author of Paradox of Progress: Economic
Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837-1873.
He is currently co-editing The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia
and is working on a book-length microhistory of a New Hampshire debtor to
be published by Harvard University Press under the title Lord Make Haste
to Help Me.
Earl J. Hess is
an associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University and author
of The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat.
Wallace Hettle Wallace
Hettle is an associate professor of history at the University of Northern
Iowa. He is the author of The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in
Peace and Civil War (2001). He currently is working on a study of Stonewall
Jackson’s image in American culture.
Formerly a historic site
manager, professor of history, and managing editor of North & South,
Lawrence Lee Hewitt currently resides in Chicago where, in collaboration
with Thomas Schott, he is writing a biography of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut.
His previous publications include Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the
Mississippi (1994).
Thomas Hill received
an M.A. in history from Oklahoma State University and is currently working
toward an M.F.A. in writing at the University of Memphis where he also teaches.
Wolfgang Hochbruck
is American Studies Professor at Braunschweig Technical University in Germany
and current chairperson of the CWRT of Germany. He has published articles
on the CW in Faulkner and Crane, and his 'Habilitationsschrift' is
a cultural history of the memory of the Civil War in literature and film.
James K. Hogue is
associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His book, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and
Fall of Radical Reconstruction, was published by Louisiana State University
Press in 2006. It is a study dedicated to analyzing Reconstruction as a military
campaign of post-war occupation, insurgency, and counterinsurgency, and America’s
first military attempt at what we today recognize as “nation building.”.
James G. Hollandsworth,
Jr., is associate provost, professor of psychology, and lecturer in history
at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has written two books on the
Civil War; The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During
the Civil War (1995), and Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel
P. Banks (1998). His latest book, An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans
Race Riot of July 30, 1866, is due out this spring.
Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, has authored, co-authored, or edited 35 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. His recent prize-winning works include Lincoln at Cooper Union and Lincoln: President-elect.
Tony Horwitz is
author of Confederates in the Attic.
Helen Howerton is
the contributing editor for Murder: Past Tense, the journal of the
Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. She is also chairman of the Convention
Committee for the 2003 meeting of Left Coast Crime, an annual gathering of
mystery authors and readers.
Dr. Wayne Wei-siang
Hsieh is an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval
Academy.
Larry E. Hudson, Jr. is a professor of history at the University
of Rochester. He is the author of "To Have and to Hold": Slave Work and
Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (1997), and edited Working
Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South
(1994). His current project examines the industrial activities of black
Southerners during the Civil War.
Leonne M. Hudson is associate professor of history at Kent State University and the author of The Odyssey of a Southerner: The Life and Times of Gustavus Woodson Smith. He has also published several articles on the Civil War.
Lynn M. Hudson is
a member of the history department at California Polytechnic State University.
She is the author of a biography of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a black abolitionist
and supporter of John Brown, The Making of 'Mammy Pleasant': A Black Entrepreneur
in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (University of Illinois Press, 2003).
Peter A. Huff holds
the T. L. James chair in religious studies at Centenary College of Louisiana
and is currently a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical
and Cultural Research in Minnesota. He is author of Allen Tate and the
Catholic Revival (Paulist Press, 1996) and What Are They Saying About
Fundamentalisms? (Paulist Press, 2008).
James L. Huston has written The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War (1987), Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900 (1998), Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (2003), and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality (2007). He is currently investigating the economic history of the United States in the nineteenth century and its relationship to the free labor ideology.
M. Thomas Inge
is the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon
College in Ashland, Virginia, where he teaches and writes about American and
Southern culture. His recent books include Conversations with William Faulkner
(1999) and the first fully annotated modern edition of Sam Watkins’s memoir,
Company Aytch (1999).
John C. Inscoe is
University Professor at the University of Georgia. His books include Race,
War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (forthcoming), and co-edited
essay collections on Unionists in the Civil War South and on Confederate nationalism.
John Jakes
is an internationally acclaimed historical novelist and author of sixteen
consecutive New York Times bestsellers. He has written extensively about the
Civil War in Charleston, On Secret Service, The North and South Trilogy,
and several volumes of The Kent Family Chronicles.© 2003 by John Jakes.
All rights reserved.
Lance Janda is an
assistant professor of history at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma.
He has written articles for The Journal of Military History, serves
as the book review editor for Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the
Military, and recently published a book entitled Stronger than Custom:
West Point and the Admission of Women (2001).
Caroline E. Janney
is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University and the author of
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and
the Lost Cause. Dr. Wilbert Jenkins teaches at Temple University.
Clayton E. Jewett
is a visiting assistant professor at Texas Lutheran University and is the
author of Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building,
and Rise and Fall of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Senator Williamson
S. Oldham, CSA. He is currently working on an analysis of the Provisional
Congress of the Confederacy.
Gary D. Joiner is
director of the Red River Regional Studies Center at Louisiana State University
in Shreveport. He is also an Assistant Professor of History at LSU-S. His
publications include One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River
Campaign of 1864 (Scholarly Resources: 2003). He is the co-author of numerous
books, articles, and technical reports in the areas Civil War, naval history,
archeology, regional history, and cultural resources.
Carolyn M. Jones
is Associate Professor of Religion and in the Institute of African American
Studies at the University of Georgia. She writes on Southern women writers
and on the intersection of classical and modern literature.
Terry L. Jones is
a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He has published
several books on the Civil War, including Lee’s Tigers: the Louisiana Infantry
in the Army of Northern Virginia (LSU Press, 1987) and The American
Civil War (McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010).
Ervin L. Jordan,
Jr., an associate professor and research archivist at the University
of Virginia's Special Collections Department, is the author of three books
including Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
(University of Virginia Press, 1995). He most recently contributed to Virginia's
Civil War (2005), and was a historical advisor for the 2003 motion picture
Gods & Generals.
Walter D. Kamphoefner,
who teaches immigration history at Texas A&M University, has just finished
co-editing a nationwide anthology of German-American Civil War letters, Deutsche
im Amerikanischen Biigerkrieg: Brief von Front und Farm (Schoningh: Paderborn,
2002), which is being translated with NEH support for future English publication.
A columnist for the news
site LewRockwell.com, Myles Kantor writes from Boynton Beach, Florida.
Anthony E. Kaye,
author of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007),
is currently working on a book about the Nat Turner revolt in Southampton
County, Virginia.
Robert C. Kenzer
is the William Binford Vest Professor of History at the University of Richmond.
He is the co-editor with John C. Inscoe of Enemies of the Country: New
Perspectives of Unionists in the Civil War South (2001).
Amy J. Kinsel is
the author of "American Identity, National Reconciliation, and the Memory
of the Civil War," published in Proteus: A Journal of Ideas
(Fall 2000), and of the forthcoming book Gettysburg in American Culture, 1863-1938.
Stephen M. Klugewicz
is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alabama. Among his published historical
writings is the recent article, "The First Martyrs': The Sixth Massachusetts
and the Baltimore Riot of 1861."
Willard Carl Klunder,
associate professor of history at Wichita State University, is the author
of Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (Kent State University
Press, 1996). He contributed a chapter, "Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas,
and Popular Sovereignty: The Demise of Democratic Party Unity," to a
festschrift, Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor
of Robert W. Johannsen (Susquehanna Press, 2006).
Morgan N. Knull,
a former editor of Civil War Book Review, teaches philosophy at Northern
Virginia Community College.
Lawrence A. Kreiser
Jr. received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama during
the spring of 2001. His dissertation is entitled "From Volunteers to
Veterans: A Social and Military History of the II Corps, Army of the Potomac,
1861-1865."
Robert K. Krick,
the author of a dozen Civil War books, has lived on the battlefields around
Fredericksburg for 30 years. Virginia J. Laas is Professor of History at Missouri Southern State
University. Relevant publications include Wartime Washington: The Civil
War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee and coauthor with Dudley Cornish,
Lincoln’s Lee: The Life of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee.
Glenn W. LaFantasie is the author of many articles about Gettysburg
and of two forthcoming books: Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of William
C. Oates (Oxford University Press) and Twilight at Little Round Top
(John Wiley & Sons).
Michael Laff
is a Dallas-based freelance writer who is pursuing a master's degree in
liberal arts.
John P. Langellier
received his Ph.D. in military history from Kansas State University. One of
his most recent books, Custer: The Man, The Myth, The Movies (2000),
treats film and television representations of this flamboyant former Union
cavalry commander, who rode to his death at the Little Bighorn.
Connie Langum is
the historian at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield and Midwest coordinator
for the American Battlefield Protection Program.
Kate Clifford Larson,
Ph.D., is the author of Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait
of an American Hero. (Ballantine Books, 2004).
Harry S. Laver
is an assistant professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University.
He recently published "Refuge of Manhood: Masculinity and the Militia
Experience," in Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in
the Old South, eds. Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, University
of Georgia Press, 2004. Susanna Michele
Lee is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at North Carolina
State University. Elizabeth D. Leonard
is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College
and the author of three books on the Civil War era: Yankee Women: Gender
Battles in the Civil War (W.W. Norton & Company); All the Daring
of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (Penguin); and Lincoln's
Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (W.W. Norton
& Company). She is currently at work on two different book-length projects:
a biography of the Civil War era judge advocate general, Joseph Holt, and
a study of the post-1865 U.S. army in the Indian wars.
Wolfgang Lepschy
teaches composition and business writing at Louisiana State University. He
is currently writing his dissertation in the English Department.
Kevin M. Levin teaches
American history and the Civil War at the St. Anne’s – Belfield
School in Charlottesville, Virginia. His most recent publication is a study
of the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia, which will be published
in William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, eds., Virginia at War, 1865
(University Press of Kentucky, 2010). He blogs at Civil War Memory: www.cwmemory.com.
Bruce Levine is
the James G. Randall Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
His books include Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
(rev. ed., 2004) and Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and
Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2005).
Larry G. Ligget
is the co-author, with the late Frank J. Welcher, of Coburn’s Brigade:
85th Indiana, 33rd Indiana, 19th Michigan, and 22nd Wisconsin in the Western
Civil War (1999). He has devoted 25 years to the study of the Civil War,
and is the managing editor of a scholarly journal.
O. James Lighthizer
is the president of the Civil War Preservation Trust, an organization devoted
to battlefield preservation. A Civil War enthusiast and former Maryland public
servant, he taught Civil War History at Anne Arundel Community College.
Edward T. Linenthal
is the author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields, and
The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.
Tom Linthicum, a
journalist for more than 25 years with a longtime interest in the Civil War,
has reviewed a number of books on the subject. He is currently director of
organization development and employment at the Baltimore Sun.
William (Mac) E. Little
works as a State Budget Management Analyst for the State of Louisiana. He
holds graduate degrees in law and public administration and currently is pursuing
a Ph.D. in public policy at Southern University.
David E. Long is
professor of history at East Carolina University. Trained as a lawyer and
a historian, he has authored numerous works on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil
War era, including The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election
and the End of Slavery (1994).
Thomas P. Lowry is
a retired professor of psychiatry. His latest books are Tarnished Scalpels-
The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons, and Swamp Doctor- A New
York Surgeon in the Marshes of Virginia and North Carolina.
Eric Love is Associate
Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of
Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.
David Lucander is
a Ph.D. candidate in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
John R. Lundberg
is the author of The Finishing Stroke: Texans in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign
(Abilene: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2002). He holds a B.A. in history from
the University of Texas at Austin and is currently an M.A. candidate in American
History at Texas Christian University.
James MacDonald
is currently working toward his Ph.D. in American history at Louisiana State
University.
Founding Director of the
United States Civil War Center and founder of the Civil War Book Review,
David Madden is most recently the editor, with long introductions,
of Thomas Wolfe's Civil War and a reprint of Loss of the Sultana
and Reminiscences of Survivors. In a collection of his essays to be published
in the fall, Touching the Web of Southern Writers, he makes much of
the effect of the war upon Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, James Agee, Carson
McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, among others. Appearing at the same time
will be a collection of essays by several critics and writers about Madden's
work called David Madden: A Writer for All Genres. He is on sabbatical
finishing two new novels and planning three innovative books about the Civil
War. This month, he received the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from
the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
John Majewski is
associate professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Ralph Mann teaches U.S. Social and Civil War history at the University
of Colorado, Boulder; his current research concerns war, kin, and subsistence
in Appalachian Virginia.
Stephen E. Maizlish,
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, is author of The
Triumph of Sectionalism, the Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844-1856
and “Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform.”
Chandra Manning
is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University, and is the author
of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War.
Aaron W. Marrs is
on the editorial staff at the United States Department of State, Office of
the Historian. He is currently revising his dissertation on antebellum southern
railroads for publication. The views expressed by the author are solely those
of the author and are not necessarily the official views of the Office of
the Historian, the U.S. Department of State, or the U.S. government.
Anne Marshall is
assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University. She is currently
revising a manuscript about post-Civil War memory in Kentucky.
Jeffrey D. Marshall
is Director of Research Collections at the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe
Library. He edited A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters (1999),
and has written several articles and a historical novel, The Inquest
(2006).
John F. Marszalek
is W.L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Mississippi
State University. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including two
on William T. Sherman.
James Marten is
professor of history at Marquette University and author of Texas Divided:
Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874 and The Children's
Civil War (1998). He is director of Children in Urban America Project,
an online archive of children's history.
Matthew Mason is
assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University.
Robert E. May,
Professor of History at Purdue University, is the author
of The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 (1973; paper
ed., University Press of Florida, 2002) and Manifest Destiny's Underworld:
Filibustering in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press,
2002). Many of his publications address the issue of antebellum slavery.
Thomas D. Mays is
a faculty member in the Department of History at Humboldt State University
in Arcata, California. His previous books include The Saltville Massacre
and Let Us Meet in Heaven: The Civil War Letters of James Michael Barr,
5th South Carolina Cavalry. In the fall of 2008, Southern Illinois University
Press will release his third book, Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s
Civil War.
Ward M. McAfee,
Professor Emeritus at CSU, San Bernardino, is the author of Religion,
Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s
(SUNY Press, 1998) and Citizen Lincoln (Nova Science Publishers,
2004). He also completed and edited Don E. Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding
Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
(Oxford University Press, 2001). Henry N. McCarl
is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education, School of Business, The
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. McCarl has published articles on
the subject of Confederate counterfeit currency in Paper Money Magazine
and is a life member of the Society of Paper Money Collectors and the American
Numismatic Association.
Charles L. McCollum
is a former editorial assistant at Civil War Book Review. He interviewed southern
historian William J. Cooper, Jr. in the Winter 2001 issue.
Archie P. McDonald teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University
in Nacogdoches, Texas. He directed the East Texas Historical Association
from 1971 until 2008 and is the editor of Make Me A Map Of The Valley:
The Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer [Jedediah Hotchkiss].
Robert Tracy McKenzie
is a professor of history at the University of Washington and is the author
of Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War
(2006). Sally G. McMillen
is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department Chair at
Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
George McNamara
is involved in the work to rehabilitate the name and reputation of Doctor
Samuel A. Mudd. He lectures and has written numerous articles on the subject.
His writing has also included subjects, for children, related to the Civil
War.
Mitchell McNaylor
is a writer living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Karen Rae Mehaffey is a library director at Sacred Heart Major
Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently finishing a manuscript on
mourning rituals and the American Civil War.
Brian C. Melton
is associate professor of history at Liberty University and the author of
Sherman’s Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum.
Wilbur E. Meneray
is assistant dean for Special Collections at Tulane University. He is past
president of the Louisiana Historical Association and serves on the board
of the Memorial Hall Museum. He has received the Charles L. Dufour Award for
contributions to Civil War history from the New Orleans Civil War Roundtable.
Chris Meyers is Associate Professor of History at Valdosta State
University and is the editor of The Empire State of the South: Georgia
History in Documents and Essays (Mercer University Press, 2008). James David Miller is Associate Professor in the Department of
History, Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of South by Southwest:
Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South (2002).
Randall M. Miller,
a Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University, has written on various
aspects of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Among his many books,
he has forthcoming, co-edited with Paul Cimbala, a collection of essays on
the “unfinished” Civil War.
Richard F. Miller
is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, author of Harvard's
Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
(University Press of New England, Fall, 2005), A Carrier at War: Onboard
the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War, (Brasseys, Summer, 2005) and co-author
of The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience (Wesco Publishing, 1994).
William J. Miller
is the author of Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss
and is former editor of Civil War Magazine.
Craig Miner is Garvey Professor of History at Wichita State University.
Amy Minton is a
doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia and Adjunct Faculty
at George Mason University. She is currently finishing her dissertation, entitled
"A Culture of Respectability: Southerners and Social Relations in Richmond,
Virginia, 1800-1865."
Mary Niall Mitchell
is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Orleans. Her book
Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future
after Slavery was published by NYU Press in March 2008.
Joe A. Mobley is
a former administrator and historian with the North Carolina Office of Archives
and History. Currently he is a visiting lecturer at North Carolina State University
in Raleigh. His book "War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb
Vance in the Confederacy is scheduled for publication by the University
Press of Florida in the summer 2005.
Clarence L. Mohr is professor of history at the University of South
Alabama. He is a former editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers (Volumes
I and II, Yale University Press, 1979 and 1982) and the author of On
the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (University
of Georgia Press, 1986; LSU Press paperback edition, 2001).
Carl Moneyhon teaches
at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a specialist in Southern
history during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Relevant publications
include The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas, 1850-1874
(1994) and "Disloyalty and Class Consciousness in Southwestern Arkansas,
1862-1865," Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1993).
Michael Montgomery,
emeritus professor of English at the University of South Carolina, was consulting
editor for language in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He currently
is working on a book about the Scottish and Irish roots of American English.
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
historian Roy Morris Jr. is the author of Sheridan: The Life and
Wars of General Phil Sheridan, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company,
and The Better Angel: Walt Whitman and the Civil War. His next book,
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen
Election of 1876, will be published by Simon & Schuster in February
2003.
Michael Morrison is author of Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997). He is currently writing a comprehensive study of how the Mexican American War and the Mexican Cession began the transformation of the two-party Jacksonian system into the sectional politics of the 1850s.
Christopher S. Freeman is a former editor of Civil War Book Review.
Gordon McKinney is Professor of History and Director of the Appalachian
Center at Berea College. He is co-author--with John C. Inscoe--of The Heart
of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina and the Civil War (2000)
and author of Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded
Age Political Leader (2004).
Virginia Mescher, a social, domestic and food historian, is a 1972
graduate of Virginia Tech in Home Economics specializing in Housing, Management
and Family Development, and primary, secondary, and adult education. She has
been involved in living history interpretation since 1988 and specializes
in material culture and domestic activities. A frequent contributor to publications
associated with the Civil War, she writes a column for her website, and has
written a number of books, the titles of which may be found on the her website,
under the AModern Books@ link. She owns Vintage Volumes, which publishes books
and games related to nineteenth century culture.