The Battlefield and Beyond: Essays on the American Civil War

Contributors

337 CONTRIBUTORS orville vernon burton is university distinguished professor of humanities and professor of history and computer science at Clemson University, and director of the Clemson CyberInstitute. Burton has authored or edited fifteen books and more than one hundred articles. His most recent work is The Age of Lincoln (Hill and Wang, 2007), which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction and was selected for the Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and Military Book Club. Recognized for his teaching, Burton was selected nationwide as the 1999 U.S. Research and Doctoral University Professor of the Year (presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ). In 2004 he received the American Historical Association’s Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Prize, and was appointed an Organization of American Historian Distinguished Lecturer for 2004–10. jane turner censer is a professor of history at George Mason University, where she has taught for over twenty years. The most recent among the five books she has written or edited is The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood , 1865–1895 (Louisiana State University Press, 2003). Her essays and prizewinning articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Southern History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Southern Cultures, and American Quarterly. michael j. connolly earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at The Catholic University of America, studying under Jon L. Wakelyn. Connolly has taught previously at Franklin Pierce University and St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, and is currently an assistant professor of history at Purdue University North Central XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 338 contributors in Indiana. He is author of Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England (University of Missouri Press, 2003) and serves as list editor for H-New England. paul d. escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. A native of St. Louis, he received his B.A. degree cum laude from Harvard College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. His previous books include After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism (Louisiana State University Press, 1978), Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives (University of North Carolina Press, 1979), Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 1985), and Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy (Praeger, 2006). Recently he published “What Shall We Do with the Negro?”: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America (University of Virginia Press, 2009). judith f. gentry received her Ph.D. at Rice University where she, along with Jon L. Wakelyn and Emory M. Thomas, studied under Frank E. Vandiver. Gentry is currently a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gentry has written extensively on Confederate economic issues, and her article “A Confederate Success in Europe: The Erlanger Loan,” Journal of Southern History 36 (1970) won the Mary Hayes Ewing Publication Prize in Southern History . Her most recent work, coedited with Jane Allured, is Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2009). She has served on the Board of Advisory Editors of the Jefferson Davis Papers and wrote the introduction to the ninth volume. She was an advisor and was interviewed on camera for the Civil War and Reconstruction parts of the prize-winning documentary Louisiana: A History, aired in 2003 by the Louisiana Public Broadcasting System. She has served as president of the Louisiana Historical Association and of the Southern Association of Women Historians and served on the National Council of the American Association of University Professors. herman hattaway is a professor emeritus of history and religion studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He has a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, where his major professor was T. Harry Williams. Hattaway’s name is on the cover of nineteen books: he wrote or co-wrote nine of them and he 339 contributors wrote forewords or commentaries for the other ten. Hattaway is best known for his books Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (University Press of Kansas, 2002), coauthored with Richard D. Beringer; General Stephen D. Lee (University Press of Mississippi, 1976); and Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War (University of Missouri Press, 1997), which was the impetus for the Shades of Blue and Gray series by the University of Missouri...