North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Contributors

Contributors DavID BrowN is lecturer in American studies at Manchester University in the United Kingdom. He has written about Hinton Rowan Helper in the Journal of Southern History and in his book, Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and the Impending Crisis of the South, among other publications . Currently he is at work on a book-length study reinterpreting the “plain folk,” the non-slaveholding whites of the antebellum South. JuDkIN BrowNINg, an assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University, has published in the North Carolina Historical Review and the Journal of Southern History. He is a 2003 winner of the Holmes Award for the best paper presented at an annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association. With Michael Thomas Smith, he edited Letters from a North Carolina Unionist: John A. Hedrick to Benjamin S. Hedrick, 1862–1865. Laura F. EDwarDS, professor of history at Duke University, is well known for her work on women, gender, and the law. She is the author of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction and Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. pauL D. ESCott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University . He is the author of many articles and books, including After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism; Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900; and Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy. JohN C. INSCoE, a native of Morganton, North Carolina, is professor of history at the University of Georgia, where he is editing the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is the author of many articles, edited works, and other works, including Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. With Gordon McKinney, he co-authored The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina’s Civil War. 296 } C o N t r I B u t o r S ChaNDra MaNNINg earned her Ph.D. at Harvard and teaches at Georgetown University. The 2003 winner of the C. Vann Woodward Award and the 2005 winner of the Holmes Award of the Southern Historical Association , she recently published What This Cruel War Was Over, on the views of Civil War soldiers about what caused the war and what it should have achieved. BartoN a. MyErS is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, where he is currently writing a dissertation that examines the intersection of hardcore Unionism, guerrilla violence, and military policy statewide in Civil War North Carolina. His first book, Executing Daniel Bright: Military Incursion, Racial Conflict and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community during the Civil War, is forthcoming. StEvEN E. NaSh received his master’s degree from Western Carolina University and is completing his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Georgia. His article “Aiding the Southern Mountain Republicans: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Buncombe County” appeared in 2006 in the North Carolina Historical Review. pauL yaNDLE has taught history courses at West Virginia University, where he is completing his Ph.D.Yandle is the author of a two-part article, “Joseph Charles Price and His ‘Peculiar Work,’” which appeared in the North Carolina Historical Review. karIN ZIpF received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia before joining the Department of History at East Carolina University. She is the author of Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919. She also has published articles in the Journal of Southern History and other scholarly journals. ...