Jewel L. Spangler is Associate Professor of History and Department Head at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century (2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).
Frank Towers is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (2004) as well as co-editor of anthologies including The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress (2011); Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (2015); and Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).
Robert Bonner is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in the Dartmouth history department and author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood.
Christopher Clark is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York, in England.
Jane Dinwoodie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. She is currently writing a book about Indian Removal and the thousands of people who avoided it.
Steven Hahn is Professor of History at New York University. A Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize recipient, his most recent book is A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830–1910 (2016).
Ryan Hall is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and History at Colgate University and author of the forthcoming Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877 with the University of North Carolina Press.
Benjamin H. Johnson is Associate Professor of History and Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans.
Pablo Mijangos y González is Associate Professor of History at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of The Lawyer of the Church: Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma with Nebraska University Press (2015).
Andrew Smith is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and author of British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization. Recently, he has published on the co-evolution of political institutions and organizational cultures in other regions of the British Empire, such as Hong Kong, India, and the Caribbean.
Jewel L. Spangler is Associate Professor of History and Department Head at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century (2008) and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).
Marcela Terrazas y Basante, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her most recent publications include Diplomacia, negocios y política. Ensayos sobre la relación entre México y el Reino Unido en el siglo XIX, which she coordinated and coedited with Will Fowler (2018), and “Violence, Collaboration, and Population Movements: The New United States–Mexico Border, 1848–1853,” in Mexico, 1848–1853. Los Años Olvidados, edited by Pedro Santoni and Will Fowler (2018).
Frank Towers is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (2004) as well as co-editor of anthologies including The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress (2011); Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (2015); and Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham, 2020).
Andrew L. Slap is Associate 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 University Press, 2006) and editor of Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (University Press of Kentucky, 2010). His current project on African American communities around Memphis during the Civil War era is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
