Auteur: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman–National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is also the editor of the journal Civil War History.Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She serves as the national director of the Association of Black Women Historians.T.K. Hunter (1956–2018) was a historian of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world who taught a wide variety of courses at Western Connecticut State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Montclair State University, Horace Mann School, Manhattan College, Brooklyn College, the New School, and City College of New York.Timothy Patrick Mc Carthy holds a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History in the Boston Clemente Course in the Humanities.