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  • Contributors

Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Politics of Freedom and Slavery (2009) and A Nation under Our Feet (2003), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize in 2004. He currently is at work on two major projects: A Nation without Borders, to be published by Viking Press, and Colonies, Nations, Empires: A History of the United States and the People Who Made It, to be published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Beth Barton Schweiger teaches early American social and cultural history at the University of Arkansas. She was awarded a 2012–13 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to complete her study of reading in the Old South.

Brian P. Luskey, associate professor of history at West Virginia University, is currently writing a book about the roles Civil War soldiers played in nineteenth-century America’s culture of capitalism.

Nicole Etcheson is Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University and the author of A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (2011).

Megan Kate Nelson is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (2005) and Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (2012). [End Page 450]

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