About the Contributors

Lea Barton resides in Flora, Mississippi, and works in several art forms including photography and mixed mediums on canvas. Her art has won several awards and has been exhibited at galleries across the country.

Michael Fellman is professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and author of Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri, Citizen Sherman, and The Making of Robert E. Lee, as well as coauthor of the forthcoming 'This Terrible War:' The Civil War and Its Aftermath.

Adam Gussow is assistant professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and author of the award-winning Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir.

Angela Hornsby is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coauthor of Neighborhood Voices: New Immigrants in Northeast Central Durham.

Lu Ann Jones teaches history at East Carolina University and is author of Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South. She also is coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.

Stephen Kantrowitz teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.

Emily Neely graduated in history from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and currently works at the unc Center for International Studies.

Molly P. Rozum is assistant professor of American history at Doane College, and her essay, "Indelible Grasslands: Place, Memory, and the 'Life Review'," appeared in Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History.

Timothy B. Tyson is associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power won the James Rawley Award and was co-winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award.

Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of unc's Center for the Study of the American South. His publications include Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America, published by Hill & Wang. He also is coeditor of Southern Cultures.