CHRISTINA K. ADKINS has a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University. Her work focuses on the cultural memory of US slavery and the Civil War.

MELISSA DEVELVIS is assistant professor of history at Augusta University, specializing in women in the US South and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her book, Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859–1861, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

ANNE SARAH RUBIN is professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author or editor of several books about the Civil War, most recently The Perfect Scout: A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas (2018).

MARCY S. SACKS is the Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History at Albion College. She has written two books: Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I (2006) and Joe Louis: Sports and Race in Twentieth-Century America (2018). Marcy is currently writing a monograph about white Northerners’ encounters with the institution of slavery and Black Southerners during that same period.

KIRSTEN WOOD, associate professor of history at Florida International University, specializes on the history of the early American republic. Her research centers on the social, economic, and political aspects of everyday life in the early United States, with particular attention to issues of gender, power, and belonging. She is the author of Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (2004).

COLIN EDWARD WOODWARD received his PhD in history from Louisiana State University. He is the author of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War (2014). Recently he has worked as an archivist at the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Book Reviews

The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama, by Victoria Ott
Reviewed by Melissa DeVelvis

Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder
Reviewed by Kirsten E. Wood

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union, by Frank Cirillo
Reviewed by Colin Edward Woodward