CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

John McKee Barr is a Professor of History at Lone Star College— Kingwood in North Houston, Texas. He is the author of Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present (LSU Press, 2014), which won the Jules and Frances Landry Award from that press. A portion of the book, critiquing Lerone Bennett’s work on Lincoln, appeared in the Winter 2014 Journal of the Abraham Lin- coln Association. Daniel Feller is Professor of History, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, and Editor/Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Danielle C. Forand is studying American Studies and political science at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Vir- ginia. In 2019 she worked in U.S. senator Mark Warner’s office in Washington, D.C. M. Keith Harris teaches history at a private high school in Los Angeles and contributes regularly to his website, TheRogueHisto- rian.com. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and is author of Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans (LSU Press, 2014). He is currently at work on a book about the 1915 silent filmThe Birth of a Nation. Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Richard Frockt Family Professor of History and a Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. He is at work on a major study with the tentative title Our Union to Restore: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Transformation of the United States, under contract with Oxford University Press. In 2012 he edited and introduced The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War, a collection of essays by John Y. Simon (University Press of Kentucky). Gordon Leidner is an independent researcher and author of numerous articles and books about Lincoln, America’s Founding Fathers, and transformational leadership theory. A past president of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, he is currently on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and is the author of greatamericanhistory.net. His current research is focused primarily on how Abraham Lincoln used the Bible. Paul Quigley is Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Stud- ies and the James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War History in the History Department at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848– 65 (Oxford University Press, 2011), which won the British Asso- ciation for American Studies Book Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award from the Museum of the Confederacy. Jonathan W. White is Associate Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and the author or editor of nine books about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including Mid- night in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and “Our Little Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, 2018), which he co-authored with Anna Gibson Holloway. Visit his website at www.jonathanwhite/org. He is a director of the Abra- ham Lincoln Association and of the Abraham Lincoln Institute.