C James Taylor Editor & Author

Walter Edgar is the Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of South Carolina: A History, editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia, and host of the radio program Walter Edgar's Journal.

J. Brent Morris is professor of history, chair of the Department of Humanities, and director of the Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. He is the recipient of the 2010 Malcolm C. Clark Award of the South Carolina Historical Society and the 2018 Order of the South award by the Southern Academy of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

C. James Taylor is the former editor in chief of the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is also a former associate research professor of history at the University of South Carolina and was coeditor of The Papers of Henry Laurens. He was coeditor with George C. Rogers Jr. of the second edition of A South Carolina Chronology.