The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

Contributors

297 C o n T r i B u T o r s o. vernon BurTon is the executive director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) program at the College of Charleston. He is emeritus university distinguished teacher/scholar, professor of history, African American studies, and sociology at the University of Illinois and is currently the director of the Clemson University Cyber Institute, distinguished professor of humanities, and professor of history and computer science. Among his sixteen books are ἀe Age of Lincoln and In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, SC. edmund l. drago is a professor of history at the College of Charleston. His latest book is Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and ἀ eir Families in South Carolina. hugh duBrulle is an associate professor at Saint Anselm College in Manchester , New Hampshire, where he teaches modern European history. A book review editor for H-CivWar, he focuses his research on the Anglo-American relationship during the American Civil War. He is currently working on a booklength study of the way Britain constructed lessons from the American conflict. niels eiChhorn is an assistant professor at Middle Georgia State College in Macon, Georgia, specializing in mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic interactions , with a particular interest in Civil War diplomacy. He has recently completed his dissertation, “‘Up Ewig Ungedeelt’ or ‘A House Divided’: Nationalism and Separatism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Atlantic World,” exploring the role and experiences of post-1848 immigrants from Schleswig-Holstein in the United States. Dr. Eichhorn has presented at a number of scholarly conferences , including SHAFR and BrANCH, and has book reviews on H-CivWar and H-Diplo and in ἀ e Southern Historian. 298 • Contributors w. eriC emerson is director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and chair of the South Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Board. amanda Foreman is a senior visiting scholar at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book on Anglo-American relations during the Civil War: A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the Civil War, won the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War writing. david T. gleeson is a reader in American history at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His most recent book is ἀ e Green and the Gray: ἀ e Irish in the Confederate States of America published in the Civil War America Series by the University of North Carolina Press in 2013. His essay here is part of the Locating the Hidden Diaspora Project on the English in North America, which is being supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK. maTThew karp is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is working on a book that explores the relationship between slavery and U.S. foreign policy. simon lewis is associate director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program at the College of Charleston. He teaches African literature and is the author, most recently, of British and African Literature in Transnational Context. aaron w. marrs is a historian in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. lesley marx teaches at the University of Cape Town in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, of which she was the founding director. She taught American literature in the English department at UCT for many years and published a monograph on John Hawkes in 1997. Her current teaching and research interests focus on Hollywood and the Great Depression, the interface between American and South African history and culture, and South African film. Among her publications are articles on country music and Afrikaner culture, Vietnam and the South African Border Wars of the apartheid era, gangster films, and films of the TRC. Joseph mCgill is a field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the Charleston, S.C., Field Office. Founder of Company I, Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Reenactment Regiment, he is the creator of the Slave Dwelling Contributors • 299 Project. Blogs documenting his more than fifty overnight stays in extant former slave dwellings throughout the United States can be found at http://blog. preservationnation.org/tag/slave-cabin-project/; http://blog.lowcountryafricana .net/following-in-her-fathers-footsteps-daughter-accompanies-dad-on-slave -cabin-preservation-mission/; and http://www.aboutourfreedom.com/2011/05/ teen-has-great-educational-adventure-in.html...