Contributors
- Contributors
James L. Huston is Regents Professor of History at Oklahoma State University. He recently authored Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003.) He is currently working on a short biography of Stephen A. Douglas.
Roger L. Ransom is professor of history and economics at the University of California, Riverside, and the president of the Economic History Association. He is the author of numerous books on slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War. His most recent work is The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (Norton, 2005).
Heather Cox Richardson is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (Harvard Univ. Press, 1997) and The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865–1901 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2001). She has written a national history of Reconstruction that will be published by Yale University Press in 2006.
William Blair is editor of Civil War History and director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1913 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004). He is working on a study of treason during the Civil War era.
Michael Vorenberg is associate professor of history at Brown University and the author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). Currently he is at work on a book about the impact of the Civil War on American citizenship.
Robert F. Engs is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching Civil War topics for thirty years. He is author of Freedom’s First Generation (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1979) and Educating the Disfranchised and the Disadvantaged: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1999). He recently co-edited The Birth of the Grand Old Party (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) with Randall Miller.
