Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Dana M. Caldemeyer is a PhD student at the University of Kentucky where she studies labor and political activism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta and Golden Key Honour Society. David Stradling is professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State (2010) and Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (2007). His current work concerns the urban environmental crisis in Cleveland. Bryon Andreasen is the research historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum where he serves as historical consultant to Illinois’s Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition and edits the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. DanielW. Crofts, professor of History at The College of New Jersey, is the author of Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989); Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (1992); and A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and “The Diary of a Public Man” (2010). He is a contributor to the New York Times blog, “Disunion.” Contributors ...