Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War

Notes on Contributors

313 Notes on Contributors Peter Bastian is an adjunct professor of history at the Australian Catholic University. He has published widely in many forms, including electronically, and is the author of several books, including A Century of Celebration: RSL LifeCare, 1911–2011 (2011), Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man (2009), John F. Kennedy and the Historians (2008), and Bearing Any Burden: The Cold War Years, 1945–1991 (2003). He was also the editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies from 1986 to 1990 and again from 2000 to 2006. He was the recipient of university teaching awards in 1998 and 2005 and is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. Keith Beutler holds a PhD from Washington University and is an associate professor at Missouri Baptist University. He has written and researched extensively on memory and history, especially the historicization of memory in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War. He is the author of the forthcoming George Washington’s Hair: How Early Americans Remembered the Founders. 314 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Daryl BlacK received a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and is now the executive director of the Chattanooga History Center . He has published articles on southern evangelicals and material culture and the making of Civil War memory. He is currently completing a major museum exhibit design and construction project in Chattanooga. seth c. Bruggeman earned a PhD at the College of William and Mary and is an associate professor of history and American studies and public history coordinator at Temple University. He is the author of Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument (2008) and the editor of Born in the USA: Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory (2012). W. Fitzhugh BrunDage received a PhD from Harvard University and is now the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published extensively on memory, history, and the South. His most recent book, The Southern Past, received the Southern Historical Association’s Charles Sydnor Award for distinguished work in southern history. His other major work on the topic includes a widely cited edited collection of essays on historical memory and regional identity in the American South (2000) and articles in Journal of American History and Journal of Southern History, among others. In addition he has published an acclaimed study of utopian socialism and a dual prize-winning book on lynching in the American South (1993). eileen Ka-may cheng earned a PhD at Yale University and is an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College. She has written articles on loyalism and American historical writing and a book titled The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784–1860 (2008). Her current book project is on loyalist historians of the American Revolution and their legacy. Frances m. clarKe received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and now lectures at the University of Sydney. Her research interests center on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, postwar memorialization, wartime gender relations, and the history of war-induced trauma. She is the author of War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North (2011). clare corBoulD is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Monash University’s History Department. Her publications include 315 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939 (2009). caroline cox is a professor of history at the University of the Pacific. She is the author of numerous articles about the Revolutionary era. Her first book, A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington ’s Army (2004), received the LTG Richard G. Trefry Award from the Army Historical Foundation. She is currently completing her second book, Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution. tara DeshPanDe received a PhD from the University of Leeds and has taught at the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University. A literary historian, she works and publishes on eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury American literature, including George Lippard, the fiction of the early republic, and Civil War memoirs. carolyn eastman holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published widely on gender, nationalism, and the media in early American history, including most recently A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution...