Contributors
- Contributors
Eileen Brumitt is the writing center director at Cedar Crest College. Eileen has earned a master’s degree in English literature and a master’s degree in history. Her academic interest is in nineteenth-century history and literature, and she writes about Civil War women and slavery.
Joan E. Cashin is professor of history at The Ohio State University. She is the author or editor of four books, including First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War, and she has published numerous articles on nineteenth-century America.
Catherine Clinton holds the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas in San Antonio and is International Research Professor at Queen’s University Belfast and president of the Southern Historical Association. Clinton is the author and editor of more than twenty-five books; her next project, Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the Civil War, will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
Judith Giesberg is professor of history at Villanova University and most recently author of “Army at Home”: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (2012) and editor of Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865 (2014). Her current book project explores pornography and sexual culture in United States Army camps during the Civil War.
Thavolia Glymph is associate professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008).
Nina Silber is professor of history at Boston University. Her books include The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900 (1989); Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2005); and Gender and the Sectional Conflict (2008). [End Page 334]
Lyde Cullen Sizer teaches U.S. cultural and intellectual history and Civil War history at Sarah Lawrence College. Her book The Political Work of Northern Women Writers in the American Civil War Era, 1850–1872 (2000), won the 2001 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians.
Christopher S. Stowe serves as War Studies department head, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia. The author of numerous articles and reviews in Civil War History, Stowe is finishing a critical biography of George Gordon Meade for the Kent State University Press.
Amy Murrell Taylor is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Divided Family in Civil War America (2005) and is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps.” [End Page 335]
