The Journal of the Civil War Era

robert colby is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University. His dissertation on the wartime slave trade recently won the Society of American Historians’ Allan Nevins Prize and the Society of Civil War Historians’ Anne J. Bailey Dissertation Prize.

campbell f. scribner is an assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy. He is currently completing a book on the history of school vandalism..

stephen a. west is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America. He is author of From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915 (2008) and coeditor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, ser. 3, vol. 2, Land and Labor, 1866–67 (2013).

christopher morris, professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington is author of The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (2012) and Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi, 1770–1860 (1995).