Contributors

Contributors Catherine Fost is assistant professor in Women' s and Gender Studies and director of the recentlyestablished Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville. In 2003,her book, Suboersi' ue Southerner:Anne Braden and the Strugglefor Racial Justice in tbe Cold War South ( NewYor\ c.PalgraveMacmillan ,2003), won book awards from both the Gustavus Myer Humanities Center for Human Rights and the Oral History Association. Alan Gallay is Warner Woodring Professor of Atlantic World and Early American History at 1[ he Ohio State University His book, 7be Indian Slave Trade:Fe Rise oftbe English Empire in tbe American Soutb,16701717 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), won the Bancroft Prize in American History in 2003. He writes frequently about slavery in America. Samuel W.Black is Curator of African American Collections at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Joan Flinspach is President and Chief Executive Officer of' Ihe Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne,Indiana. GeraldJ.Prokopowicz is Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University in Greenville,North Carolina. He is the author of Allfor tbe Regiment: 71) e Army oftbe Obio,18611862 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2001)and served for nine years as the Lincoln Scholar at The Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Darrel E.Bigham is Director of the Historic Southern Indiana Organization and Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. SUMM ER 2006 ...