Contributors
- Contributors
Matthew Axtell received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2002 and his PhD from Princeton University in 2016. He is currently employed as the assistant counsel for Environmental Law and Historic Preservation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. He has published a number of articles concerning slavery, the environment and the role of law.
Mark A. Furnish received his PhD in U.S. history from Purdue University in 2014. He is presently assistant researcher at the Frederick Douglass Papers Project, at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. He is working on a book manuscript entitled “A Rosetta Stone on Slavery’s Doorstep: Eleutherian College and Lost Antislavery History of Jefferson County, Indiana.”
Gerald J. Prokopowicz is professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is the author of Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And Other FAQ about Abraham Lincoln (2009) and host of over 350 episodes of Civil War Talk Radio (www.impedimentsofwar.org).
Stephen Rockenbach is professor of history at Virginia State University, where he teaches courses in American history, military history, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is the author of War upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War (2016).
Timothy Ross Talbott has his MA in public history from Appalachian State University. He is the associate director of Education, Interpretation, Visitor Services and Collections at the Pamplin Historical Park and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia. [End Page 2]
