Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Mary R. Block is associate professor of history at Valdosta State University where she teaches courses in American legal and constitutional history and the early national and antebellum eras. She is completing a book-length manuscript tentatively titled, “‘An Accusation Easily to be Made’: Gender, Sex, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Rape Law.” Cicero M. Fain III is assistant professor of history at the College of Southern Maryland. He is the author of “Black Response to the Construction of Colored Huntington, West Virginia, during the Jim Crow Era,” which appeared in the fall 2007 issue of West Virginia History, in addition to two forthcoming articles on African American life in post-bellum West Virginia and the Ohio Valley. Leslie Ann Harper is a PhD student in humanities at the University of Louisville. Her doctoral research is focused on women and insanity in the nineteenth century. Daniel Vivian is an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville. His teaching and research concentrates on the history of the United States since the Civil War. He is currently revising his doctoral dissertation, a study of elite recreation and estate-making in the South Carolina lowcountry, for publication. Contributors ...