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  • Contributors

John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale University. His most recent book, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (2012), was awarded the 2013 Bancroft Prize, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was selected for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2012.

Chandra Manning teaches at Georgetown University and is the author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (2007), which won the Avery Craven Award.

Michael F. Conlin is associate professor of history at Eastern Washington University. He has published several articles on the sectional conflict and the history of science and is currently working on a book-length study about how antebellum Americans remembered the American Revolution and how they understood the Constitution.

Nicholas Guyatt teaches American history at the University of York.

John Craig Hammond is assistant professor of history at Penn State University, New Kensington. He is most recently coeditor (with Matthew Mason) of Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (2011).

Jill Ogline Titus is associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and the author of Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia (2011). [End Page 348]

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