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Jean H. Baker is Professor of History at Goucher College. Among her books are The Politics of Continuity: Maryland Political Parties During the Civil War; Ambivalent Americans: A Study of the Know Nothing Party; and Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats. She also has written Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography and The Stevensons of Illinois: A Family Biography. Her most recent book (with David Herbert Donald and Michael Holt) is Civil War and Reconstruction. Robert F. Engs is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861–1890 and Educating the Disenfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839–1893. Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Among his books are Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War; and Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. His 1989 book, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, was the winner of the Bancroft Prize. Michael F. Holt is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several essays and four books on antebellum political history, includeing Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848–1860; The Political Crisis of the 1850s; Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln; and The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. With Jean Baker and David Donald, he wrote Civil War and Reconstruction. James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History at Princeton University. He has published widely on Civil War era topics. Among his many books are The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, for which he won the Lincoln Prize. Contributors 194 Contributors Randall M. Miller is William Dirks Warren ’50 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University. His most recent books relating to the Civil War era are (with Paul Cimbala) The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction : Reconsiderations; (with Paul Cimbala) Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front; and (with Harry S. Stout and Charles Reagan Wilson) Religion and the American Civil War. Mark E. Neely, Jr. is McCabe-Greer Professor in the American Civil War Era at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published several books, including The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia; The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America; and Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History. He has just completed a book entitled The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North. Phillip Shaw Paludan is Naomi Lynn Professor of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Among his books are A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law, and Equality in the Civil War Era; Victims: A True Story of the Civil War; “A People’s Contest”: The Union and the Civil War, 1861–1865; and The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, which won the Lincoln Prize. Brooks D. Simpson is Professor of History and Humanities at Arizona State University. His books include America’s Civil War; The Political Education of Henry Adams; The Reconstruction Presidents; and Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity , 1822–1865. He is currently writing a short history of Reconstruction and the second volume of his three-part Grant biography, to be entitled Ulysses Grant: The Fruits of Victory, 1865–1885. ...

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