Jean H. Baker is a Professor of History at Goucher College. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982. In 1979 she was an editor for Maryland Historical Magazine. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Conference of Women Historians. Her publications include The Civil War and Reconstruction, The Politics of Continuity, and Ambivalent Americans. She has also written several stories on suffragists including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Frances Willard.
Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation’s leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press.
Richard Nelson Current taught history at Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin, among other institutions, and has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including several on Wisconsin history: Pine Logs and Politics: A Life of Philetus Sawyer, 1816-1900, The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It, and The History of Wisconsin: The Civil War Era, 1848-1873.
