Contributors

Contributors KEITH GRIFFLER is Assistant Professor of African Arnerican History in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. His second book, Wade in tbe Water: Tbe Underground Railroad and African American Freedom in tbe Obio Valley,is forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky. He is coproducer on a public television documentary of the same name,supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting' s National Black Programming Consortium. THOMAS S. MACH is Associate Professor of History at Cedarville University,specializing in U. S. nineteenthcentury political history. He is currently completing a biography of Cincinnatian George Hunt Pendleton, the father of the first major federal civil service reform legislation in United States history. DAN FOUNTAIN teaches history at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He earned his Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Mississippi where he completed his dissertation under the direction of Winthrop Jordan. JAMES A. RAMAGE is Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of Rebel Raider:Tbe I. ife of General Jobn Hunt Morgan Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,1986) and Gray Ghost:The Life of Col.Jobn Singleton Mosby Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999).He is currently writing a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. MITCHELL SNAY is Professor of History at Denison University. He is the author of Gospel of Disunion:Religion and Separatism in tbe Antebellum South New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). 2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY ...