Contributors
- Contributors
Daniel W. Crofts writes about the North-South sectional crisis that led to the Civil War. He earned his doctorate at Yale University in 1968 and taught history at The College of New Jersey from 1975 until his retirement in 2014. His six books include Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 1989), Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834– 1869 (University Press of Virginia, 1992), and A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and “The Diary of a Public Man” (Louisiana State University Press, 2010). He made many contributions between 2011 and 2014 to the New York Times blog “Disunion.” His most recent book, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), was awarded the University of Virginia’s Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History. This article previews his forthcoming work on Pennsylvania politics during the Civil War era.
Jim Higgins is a lecturer in the department of history and philosophy at Rider University and has written and lectured extensively on a variety of subjects in the history of medicine. His first book, a brief history of disease and medicine in Pennsylvania, will be published in 2020 by the Pennsylvania Historical Association in conjunction with Temple University Press.
M. Alison Kibler is professor of American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Franklin and Marshall College. Her recent book is Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890–1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Amy C. Schutt is an associate professor of history at SUNY Cortland. She is the author of the book Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is currently working on another book project—a history of children and youth in the eighteenth-century Delaware Valley.
Su Spina graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 2017, with a major in American studies. She completed research for this article as a Hackman Summer Scholar. She is currently the assistant director of the Kennett Flash.
Judith L. Van Buskirk is a recently retired professor of History at SUNY Cortland. She has authored two books on the social history of the American Revolution: Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York and Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution.
