Contributors
- Contributors
Christopher J. Chappell is a social studies teacher at Menchville High School, in Newport News, Virginia. He edited the Nicklis letters with Jonathan W. White as part of an independent study toward his master of arts in teaching degree at Christopher Newport University.
J. David Hacker is a demographic historian at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.
Earl J. Hess holds the Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University. He has authored sixteen books, coauthored three, and edited one, mostly in Civil War studies but also in film production history.
Richard B. McCaslin is professor of history at the University of North Texas and the author or editor of eleven books, including Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862 (1997).
Nimrod Tal is a lecturer in American history at Kibbutzim College, Israel. His field of interest is the role of historical consciousness in constituting the Anglo-American community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current work explores the lingering British fascination with the memory of the American Civil War.
Jennifer L. Weber is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, where she specializes in Civil War studies. Weber is author of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North (2006) and currently working on a book about the impact of conscription on the North.
Jonathan W. White is assistant professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and author of Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (2011) and Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelction of Abraham Lincoln (2014). He is currently writing a history of sleep and dreams during the Civil War called “Midnight in America.” [End Page 368]
