Jonathan M. Atkins is professor of history at Berry College in Georgia and specializes in nineteenth-century politics. His most well-known works are Politics, Parties, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832–1861 (1997) and several articles published in the Journal of Southern History and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
Michael R. Bradley taught history at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and has written extensively on the Civil War. Among his books are Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Escort and Staff (2006), With Blood and Fire: Life behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1863–65 (2003), and Tullahoma: The 1863 Campaign for the Control of Middle Tennessee (1999).
A professor of history at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, John V. Cimprich has authored several works on the Civil War, including Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory (2005) and Slavery’s End in Tennessee, 1861–1865 (1985). His project in progress centers on runaway slaves during the Civil War.
B. Franklin Cooling is professor of national security studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. His many publications include Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland (2003), Fort Donelson’s Legacy: War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862–1863 (1997), Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington: 1864 (1995), and Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington during the Civil War (1991).
W. Calvin Dickinson is professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University. He has published dozens of articles and books, the most recent of which are Tennessee: State of the Nation (2006), coedited with Larry H. Whiteaker; Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland (2004), coedited with Michael E. Birdwell; Tennessee Tales That Textbooks Don’t Tell (2002), coauthored with Eloise Hitchcock; and A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973–1996 (1998), coedited with Jennie Ivey.
Kent T. Dollar is assistant professor of history at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. He is the author of Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their Faith (2005). His current project examines the activities of Christian soldiers, both Union and Confederate, in the early months of the Civil War.
An associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, John D. Fowler is the author of Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. (2004) and The Confederate Experience Reader (2008). He is also the director of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era.
Derek W. Frisby is a history professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and has authored several articles on the Civil War. He has a work in progress on guerrilla warfare in West Tennessee.
Marion B. Lucas is professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. His publications include A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760–1891 (2003) and Sherman and the Burning of Columbia (1976).
A professor of history at the University of Louisville, Thomas C. Mackey has authored several books, the most recent of which is Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City’s Committee of Fourteen, 1920–1930 (2005). He is a constitutional scholar who specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
Gary R. Matthews is a freelance writer who lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place (2005).
Professor and Donald A. Logan Chair of American history at the University of Washington, Robert Tracy McKenzie has authored over a dozen articles and books relating to the antebellum South and the Civil War, including One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War–Era Tennessee (1994). His most recent publication is on Knoxville and is titled Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (2006).
Brian D. McKnight is assistant professor of history at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He has written several articles on the Civil War and two books on the war in Appalachia: Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia (2006) and To Perish by the Sword: Champ Ferguson’s Bloody Civil War (forthcoming).
The Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University, Kenneth W. Noe has authored numerous books on the Civil War. His major publications include Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (2002), The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays (1997), coedited with Shannon H. Wilson, A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) (1996), and Southwest Virginia’s Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis (1994).
The Tripp Professor of the Humanities at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Richard D. Sears has published several books on American history, including A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky (1996), Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (2002), and The Day of Small Things: Abolitionism in the Midst of Slavery (3rd ed., 2008). He was a contributor to the Kentucky Encyclopedia and is currently writing entries for the forthcoming Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. He recently published eight volumes of a genealogical study called Founders and Presidents of Berea College.
An assistant professor of history at Auburn University, Montgomery, Ben H. Severance is the author of Tennessee’s Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867–1869 (2005). Currently, he is working on two projects: the Alabama edition of the Civil War series Portraits of Conflict (published by the University of Arkansas Press) and a political biography of the Tennessee congressman Horace Maynard, who served eight terms in the U.S. House during the Civil War era.
Kristen L. Streater is associate professor of history at Colin County Community College in Texas. She has a forthcoming article in Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War, edited by LeeAnn Whites and Alecia Long.
Larry H. Whiteaker is professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University. He has written extensively on the Civil War as well as on nineteenth-century America. Among his books are Tennessee: State of the Nation (2006), coedited with W. Calvin Dickinson, Seduction, Prostitution, and Moral Reform in New York, 1830–1860 (1997), and The Individual and Society in America (1979).