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Contributors Jean Baker is widely considered the leading authority on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. Her 1987 biography of the president’s wife won many awards. She has also written about the origins of the Republican party and the life of Adlai E. Stevenson and recently wrote the introduction for C. A. Tripp’s ‘‘intimate’’ biography of Lincoln. Professor Baker teaches at Goucher College in Maryland. Daniel Mark Epstein, a poet and biographer whose earlier books include lives of Nat King Cole, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, is the author of the study Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (2004). His verse has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review, among other publications. Joseph R. Fornieri, associate professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), won his school’s 2001– 2002 Provost’s Award for excellence in teaching. He is the author 366 Contributors of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith (2005) and editor of The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (2003). Most recently, he coedited Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives (2005). William C. Harris is the author of Lincoln’s Last Months (2004) and With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (1999), which won a Lincoln Prize. David Herbert Donald called his most recent work ‘‘one of the half-dozen books on Lincoln published in the last decade that must be read by every student of the American Civil War.’’ Harris serves as professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State University. Harold Holzer, senior vice president for external affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, serves also as cochairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, vice chairman of the New York State Bicentennial Commission, and vice chairman of The Lincoln Forum. His twenty-eight books include Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2005), which won a Lincoln Prize. John F. Marszalek is the recently retired W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Mississippi State University , and his most recent book is Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (2004). His other books include Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (1993) and the de- finitive story of the general and the press, Sherman’s Other War (1999). William Lee Miller is the author of the widely admired book, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (2002). Now serving as the Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the University of Virginia, he is the author of many other studies, [44.201.131.213] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 01:49 GMT) Contributors 367 including Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress (1996), which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. Lucas E. Morel, who is associate professor of politics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is the author of Lincoln ’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self Government (2000). Morel has made several appearances at The Lincoln Forum. Geoffrey Perret, who has written critically praised best-sellers about Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight David Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur , and John F. Kennedy, is the author of Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief (2004). His many other books include America in the Twenties : A History (1983), There’s a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II (1997), and Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II (1997). Matthew Pinsker made a mark in the Lincoln field with Lincoln ’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (2003), a now-classic study of the sixteenth president and his country retreat . Pinsker, who teaches at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, previously wrote the biography Abraham Lincoln (2002) for the American Presidents Reference Series. John Y. Simon won a Lincoln Prize for his inspired editing of the twenty-eight-volume (to date) Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, considered both a model of documentary editing and a landmark in the study of the Civil War. A professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Simon has written widely on Lincoln and Grant, and serves as executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. 368 Contributors Jean Edward Smith is the author of Grant (2001). Currently the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at...