Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific

Contributors

➢ 251 Contributors Michael S. Green is professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada. He is the editor of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly and author of numerous articles and books on western history, including Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War (2004) and the forthcoming Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War and Lincoln and the Election of 1860. Robert W. Johannsen, professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign, is the country’s leading authority on Stephen A. Douglas. His books include Frontier Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (1955), which dealt with Douglas’s influence on the Pacific Northwest, The Letters of Stephen Douglas (1961), and the definitive biography Stephen A. Douglas (1973). Deren Earl Kellogg is a doctoral graduate in history at the University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign, where he studied with Robert W. Johannsen. A native of Illinois, he currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi, where he serves as the operations director of a nonprofit organization. Mark E. Neely Jr. is McCabe Greer Professor of Civil War History at Pennsylvania State University. His books include The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (1981); The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991), winner of the Pulitzer prize; The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993); and The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005). David A. Nichols is a former professor and academic dean at Southwestern College in Kansas. His books include Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics (1978) and A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution (2007). Earl S. Pomeroy was one of the country’s premier western historians. A longtime professor of history at the University of Oregon and the University of California, San Diego, he authored numerous articles and books, including The Territories and the United States, 1861–1890 (1947), The Pacific Slope (1965), and The American Far West in the Twentieth Century (2008). Larry Schweikart is professor of history at the University of Dayton, where he teaches courses in business, economic, and military history. He is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including Banking in the American South (1987) and A Patriot’s History of the United States (coauthored with Michael Allen, 2004).  Contributors 252 Vincent G. Tegeder was a longtime professor and archivist at St. Johns University (Minnesota) and a specialist in the Civil War era. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1949. Paul M. Zall, with degrees from Swarthmore and Harvard, taught at Cornell, University of Oregon, and California State University, Los Angeles, for forty years before joining the Huntington Library in 1987 as a research scholar, where he is the resident authority on Lincoln stories. His most recent book is Lincoln’s Legacy of Laughter (2008), and he is completing a group biography of Lincoln’s friends who helped him win the West. ...