Auteur: James Oakes

Michael J. Birkner is professor of history at Gettysburg College and author or editor of numerous books, including Samuel L. Southard: Jeffersonian Whig, Mc Cormick of Rutgers: Scholar, Teacher, Public Historian, and The Governors of New Jersey. Randall M. Miller is professor of history at St. Joseph’s University and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of numerous books, including The Northern Home Front during the Civil War; Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making; and The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation. John W. Quist is professor of history at Shippensburg University and the author of Michigan’s War: The Civil War in Documents and Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.