Kathleen Diffley is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitution Reform, 1861-1876 (Georgia, 1992); the editor of To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876; and Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894. Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Comparative American Studies, American Quarterly, American Periodicals, Prospects, and seven collections of scholarly essays.

Benjamin Fagan is an associate professor of English at Auburn University. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (Georgia), which was named an Honorable Mention for the Research Society of American Periodicals Book Prize. He is also the editor of the forthcoming African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850. His work has appeared in journals such as African American Review, Legacy, and American Periodicals.

Barbara McCaskill is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, and co-director of the Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative. She is the author of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 (New York University Press, 2006), Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Georgia, 2015), and a teaching edition of the 1860 memoir Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (University of Georgia Press, 1999).

Timothy Sweet is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature and Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.

Books by Kathleen Diffley