Michael Les Benedict is an emeritus professor of history at The Ohio State University, where he taught from 1970 through 2004, and where he also served for many years as adjunct professor of law. He is the author of several distinguished books, including The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (New York: Norton, 1973); A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869 (New York: Norton, 1974); and Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Era of Reconstruction (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006). He is also the author of a leading textbook on the Constitution and American society, The Blessings of Liberty: A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1996; 2d ed. 2005).
Emilye Crosby is an associate professor of history at Geneseo College, State University of New York. In addition to numerous articles on the Civil Rights struggle, she is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Mark Grimsley is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Civilians in the Path of War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), co-edited with Clifford J. Rogers.
James G. Hogue is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he served for twelve years as an active duty officer in the U.S. Army. He is the author of Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006).
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an assistant professor in the Department of History and at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University. The author of several articles and essays, he is completing a book entitled Freedom Politics: The Civil Rights Movement in Lowndes County, Alabama, and the Making of Black Power.
Norma J. Kriger is a political scientist and Independent Scholar who received her PhD from the Massachusett Institute of Technology in 1985. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she is the author of Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); and Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Wayne E. Lee is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001) and is currently writing a book entitled Leashing the Dogs of War: Restraints on Warfare from Antiquity through Industrialization.
Jeffrey Ogbar is an associate professor of history and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) and editor of The Civil Rights Movement: Problems in American Civilization (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
Paul Ortiz is an associate professor in the Department of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he serves as a history and Latin American and Latino Studies faculty affiliate. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) and co-editor, with William H. Chafe and others, of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New York: New Press, 2001).
Brooks D. Simpson is a professor of history at Arizona State University and the author of many books and articles, including The Reconstruction Presidents (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998) and Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Christopher B. Strain is an assistant professor of history and American Studies at Florida Atlantic University. In addition to several articles and essays, he is the author of Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Movement (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
