Contributors
- Contributors
Joan E. Cashin received her doctorate from Harvard University, and she is a professor of history at The Ohio State University. She is the author or editor of four books and many articles. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the struggle for material resources during the Civil War.
Brian Luskey is associate professor of history at West Virginia University. He is the author of On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America (2010) and coeditor (with Wendy Woloson) of Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America (2015). He is currently writing a book titled "Soldiers and Servants of Fortune: Free Labor's Frauds in Civil War America."
Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian living in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (2012) and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (2005). Her third book, Path of the Dead Man: How the West was Won—and Lost—during the American Civil War, will be published by Scribner in 2019.
Jason Phillips is associate professor of history and the Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University. He is the author of Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (2007) and editor of Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (2013). He is currently working on a book titled "Civil War Looming: A History of the Future."
C. Ian Stevenson is a PhD candidate in Boston University's American and New England Studies Program, where he focuses on architectural history, landscapes, and environmental history. Before pursuing doctoral work, Ian was assistant editor for the Humanities and Administrator of the Loeb Classical Library and The I Tatti Renaissance Library at Harvard University Press.
Sarah Jones Weicksel received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017. Her dissertation was titled "The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era." In 2015–16 she was a fellow at the Smithsonian [End Page 98] National Museum of American History and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Michael E. Woods is assistant professor of history at Marshall University. He is the author of Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (2016) and Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (2014), which won the Southern Historical Association's James A. Rawley Award in 2015. Woods is currently writing a dual biography of Stephen A. Douglas and Jefferson Davis. [End Page 99]
