Hilary N. Green (Edited By)
Hilary N. Green is James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Department, Davidson College. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), as well as numerous essays and articles. She is currently at work on two projects: a book manuscript examining how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War, and a digital humanities project on Black Civil War memory.
Andrew L. Slap (Edited By)
Andrew L. Slap is a Professor of history at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (Fordham). He is also the editor or co-editor of three volumes on the Civil War era. His current book project is “African American Communities during Slavery, War, and Peace: Memphis in the Nineteenth Century.”
Andre E. Johnson (Foreword By)
Andre E. Johnson is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Memphis. He is the author of three national award-winning books, The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition (2012), The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (with Amanda Nell Edgar, Ph.D., 2018), and No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (2020). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit (2023) and Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition (with Kimberly P. Johnson, Ph.D., and Wallis C. Baxter IV, Ph.D., 2023).