Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War

Contributors

Contributors Herman Belz is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He is the author of some fifty-six articles or chapters in books and nineteen essays, and he has served as consultant to the American Historical Association’s Constitutional History in the Schools Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, Educational Testing Service, National Video Communications, Vision Associates, and the Carter Museum and Library. Professor Belz has won grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Bar Foundation for Legal History, among others. His first book was awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. He has served on numerous University of Maryland committees, was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History, and was a member of the Campus Senate Executive Committee and a member of the Graduate Council. Professor Belz was a Visiting Research Scholar in the James Madison Program at Princeton University in the academic year 2001–2002 and was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities in 2005. Michael Les Benedict is Professor Emeritus of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of several books and many articles on the political, constitutional, and legal history of the United States in the Reconstruction era, including most recently Preserving the Constitution: Essays on the Constitutional Politics of Reconstruction (2006) and “Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law, and the Thirteenth Amendment,” in the Maryland Law Review 71 (2011). He is also the author of a standard constitutional history of the United States, The Blessings of Liberty (2nd ed. 2006). Christian Esh is Associate Professor of American History at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. His current project is a monograph on northern theories of the Union from the American Revolution through the Age of Jackson. He completed his PhD under the direction of Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 2008. Joseph R. Fornieri is Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology , where he teaches American politics, political philosophy, and constitutional rights and liberties. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith, an acclaimed scholarly work that explores Lincoln’s religion and politics. In addition to numerous chapters in edited volumes, he is the author or editor of three other books on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and statesmanship: The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives with Kenneth L. Deutsch, and Lincoln’s America with Sara V. Gabbard. He is also co-editor with Ken Deutsch of An Invitation to Political Thought, a text reader and guide to the classic political thinkers of the Western tradition from Plato to Nietzsche. In 2011 he received the Eisenhart Award for outstanding teaching. 270 Contributors Paul D. Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution and is the Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College. He is the author of From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, and Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History, both published by Louisiana State University Press. He has written A Concise History of the American Constitution for the National Association of Scholars. He completed his PhD under the direction of Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 1994. Jeffry H. Morrison is Associate Professor of Government at Regent University and a faculty member at the federal government’s James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation in Washington DC. He earned his PhD from Georgetown University and has taught at Georgetown, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Princeton University. He is co-editor of The Founders on God and Government (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) and The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), and author of John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) and The Political Philosophy of George Washington (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Johnathan O’Neill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Originalism in American Law and Politics : A Constitutional History (2005) and co-editor (with Gary L. McDowell) of a multiauthor essay collection, America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism (2006). His articles have appeared in the Review of Politics, the Modern Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review. His current research is on “Constitutionalism and American Conservatism in the Twentieth Century,” and articles related to this project have been published...