This Distracted and Anarchical People

Contributors

Matthew Warshauer

Matthew Warshauer is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Connecticut in the American Civil War:Slavery, Sacrifi ce, and Survival (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) and Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship (University ofTennessee Press, 2006). He has also published numerous articles and essays, and edits the journal Connecticut History.

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Karen Fisher Younger

Karen Fisher Younger is the former managing director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University and managing editor of the journal Civil War History. She is coeditor of Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

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Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He served as co-chairman of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and has written, co-written, or edited 35 books.

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Matthew Isham

Matthew Isham is managing director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University and managing editor of the journal Civil War History. His dissertation, completed in 2010, is titled “ ‘Breaking Over the Boundary’: The Role of Party Newspapers in Democratic Factionalism in the Antebellum North, 1845–1852.”

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Christian B. Keller

Christian B. Keller is Professor of History at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Along with many scholarly articles focusing on the ethnic experience in the Civil War, he is author of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (Fordham, 2007) and coauthor of Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg (Stackpole, 2004). He is currently editing and translating the memoirs of a German American soldier in the 41st New York

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Jonathan W. White

JONATHAN W. WHITE is a Ph.D. candidate in United States History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published articles on Civil War politics in Civil War History, American Nineteenth Century History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and Pennsylvania Heritage. In 2005 he was awarded the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article in Civil War history for the previous year.

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Andrew L. Slap

Andrew L. Slap is Associate Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press, 2006).

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Michael Thomas Smith

Michael Thomas Smith is Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. He is the author of The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North.

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Timothy J. Orr

Timothy J. Orr is an assistant professor of history at Old Dominion University. His dissertation examined urban military mobilization in the North during the Civil War. He is the author of two essays, “‘A Viler Enemy in Our Rear’: Pennsylvania Soldiers Confront the North’s Antiwar Movement,” in The View from the Ground: The Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kentucky, 2006), and “‘On Such Slender The reads Does the Fate of Nations Depend’: The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at the Battle of Gettysburg,” in “The Most Shocking Battle I Ever Witnessed”: Th e Second Day at Gettysburg (Gettysburg National Military Park, 2008). He has edited “Last to Leave the Field”: Th e Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (University of Tennessee Press, 2011).

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Robert M. Sandow

Robert M. Sandow is an associate professor of history at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians (Fordham University Press, 2009) and has presented numerous articles and conference papers. His recent work addresses issues of political dissent and rural protest on the northern home front.

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Barbara Gannon

Barbara A. Gannon is an assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida.She is the author of “Th e Won Cause”: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (University of North Carolina pess, 2011), which received HonorableMention for the 2012 Lincoln Prize. She has also published “Sites of Memory, Sites of Glory: African-American Grand Army of the Republic Posts in Pennsylvania,” in Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001), and has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the Southern Historical Association and the Society of Military History.

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Michael F. Holt

Michael F. Holt is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History (1974) at the University of Virginia. He is the author of even books, including Th e Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1999), which was runner-up for the Lincoln Prize in 2000, and his mostrecent book is Franklin Pierce (Times Books, 2010). He has also coedited a book and is coauthor of one of the standard textbooks of the Civil War era, The Civil War and construction, 3rd edition, revised (Norton, 2001).

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Michael J. Bennett

Michael J. Bennett is currently the Earhart Civil War Fellow at the University of Michigan,Clements Library. Before that he was Visiting Assistant Professor of History at High Point University (2008–11). He received his PhD from Saint Louis University. Prior to joining the faculty he was a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University (2006–8) andKent State University (2002–6). His research interest is the American Civil War in the areas of the relationship between war and society the law. His book Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) won numerous awards, including the Civil War Roundtable of New York City’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award for the Best Civil War Book of 2004 and the North American Society for Oceanic History’sJohn Lyman Book Award as the Best Book in United States Naval History for 2004.

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