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Contributors Jean H. Baker is the Bennett-Harwood Professor of History at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of eight books, including Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion as well as a biography of James Buchanan. John M. Belohlavek is professor of history at the University of South Florida , where he teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history. Michael J. Birkner is professor of history and the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts at Gettysburg College. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s. Daniel W. Crofts, professor of history at The College of New Jersey, studies the Old South and the North-South sectional conflict that led to civil war.His books include Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis; Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834–1869; and A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and “The Diary of a Public Man.” Nicole Etcheson is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University.She is the author of The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787–1861; Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era; and A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community. Paul Finkelman is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School. He is the author or 282 · Contributors editor of more than 30 books and 175 scholarly articles. His most recent book was a presidential biography, Millard Fillmore. William W. Freehling, the Singletary Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, is currently senior fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville. The author of several prize-winning histories of the Civil War era, most notably the two-volume Road to Disunion, he is now writing a biography of Abraham Lincoln. Michael Holt, the author of eight books on nineteenth-century American politics, has taught at Yale, Stanford, and since 1974 at the University of Virginia, where he is the Langbourne M.Williams Professor of American History. In 1993–94 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge. William P. MacKinnon is an independent historian living in Montecito, California. For half a century, he has published articles, essays, and books about Utah’s long, violent territorial period while serving as a fellow of the Utah State Historical Society, president of the Mormon History Association , and chairman of the Yale Library Associates. He holds degrees in history and business administration from Yale and Harvard and was vice president of General Motors Corporation. Michael A.Morrison is associate professor of history at Purdue University and former coeditor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is the author of Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. John W. Quist is professor of history at Shippensburg University and the author of Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. William G. Shade is professor emeritus of history at Lehigh University. He has authored or edited seventeen books and over fifty scholarly articles. ...