Lincoln's America: 1809 - 1865

Contributors

231 Contributors Herman Belz Professor of history at the University of Maryland. Author of A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen’s Rights, 1861–1866; Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era; and A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective. Joseph R. Fornieri Associate professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology. Author of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith and editor of The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Sara Vaughn Gabbard Former vice president and director of development at the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and editor of Lincoln Lore, the museum’s bulletin, which was recognized in 2005, 2006, and 2007 by the Chicago Tribune as one of the nation’s fifty best magazines. Coeditor (with Harold Holzer) of Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Allen C. Guelzo The Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and professor of history at Gettysburg College. Author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, both of which won the Lincoln Prize, and most recently Lincoln and Douglas : The Debates That Defined America (2008). Harold Holzer Cochairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Author or coauthor of thirty books on Lincoln and the Civil War, including The Lincoln Image; The Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Lincoln Seen and Heard; Lincoln as I Knew Him; and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, winner of a 2005 Lincoln Prize. Myron Marty History professor emeritus, Drake University. Coauthor (with Shirley Marty) of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesen Fellowship and coauthor (with David Kyvig) of Nearby History: Exploring the Past around You. Mark Noll Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Author of The Civil War as a Theological Crisis and America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. 232 Contributors James Oakes Graduate School Humanities Professor and Distinguished Professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Author of The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders; Slavery and Freedom : An Interpretation of the Old South; and The Radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2008 winner of the Lincoln Prize). Richard Striner Professor of history at Washington College and a senior writer with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. Author of Father Abraham : Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. Frank J. Williams Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, cofounder and chairman of the Lincoln Forum, and member of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Author of Judging Lincoln and coauthor (with Harold Holzer and Edna Greene Medford) of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views. Kenneth J. Winkle Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln. Author of The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln and coauthor of The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War. ...