CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Devin Hunter is an assistant professor of United States and Public History at the University of Illinois Springfield. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Loyola University Chicago and is currently complet- ing a manuscript about the politics of cultural diversity and rede- velopment in Chicago between 1950 and 1980. As a public histo- rian, he serves on the advisory board of the Illinois State Historical Society. He is a member of the board of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Elliott Kalan is a writer and comedian. He was the final head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he won four Emmy Awards and co-authored the bestselling Earth: The Book; head writer and Executive Producer of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return; author of the children’s book Horse Meets Dog, and co-host of the podcasts Presidents Are People, Too! and The Flop House. His son’s middle name is Lincoln. John A. Lupton is the Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission. From 1991 to 2009, he was with the Lincoln Legal Papers/Papers of Abraham Lincoln. In addition to publishing several articles and chapters on Lincoln’s legal career and Illinois legal history, he most recently published the biographical book Adjudicating Illinois: Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court in 2018. Kaylyn Sawyer, a 2017 graduate of Gettysburg College, is employed by the Department of the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia. She has worked as a fellow for the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, assisting with research and writing articles for the student blog The Gettysburg Compiler. Her prior publications include “‘With Nothing Left but Reputation’: Reconstructing the Virginia Military Institute” in The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era and “A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War” in The Gettysburg Historical Journal. Mark A. Smith is a professor of history at Fort Valley State Uni- versity in central Georgia. He is the author of Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861, as well as several articles on military engineering and the American Civil War. He is currently working on a survey history of the Corps of Engineers’ role in American coastal defense from 1776 through 1950 and serves as the editor of the Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. Mark E. Steiner is a professor of law at South Texas College of Law Houston, where he teaches American legal history, consumer law, and Texas civil procedure. He is the author of An Honest Call- ing: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. Frank J. Williams is the Founding Chair of The Lincoln Forum and past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association and The Lincoln Group of Boston. He serves as Literary Editor of The Lincoln Herald where he edits “Lincolniana.” Christopher J. Young is an associate professor in the Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religious Studies and the Director for the Center for Innovation and Scholarship in Teach- ing and Learning at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana..