Kenneth W Howell Editor & Author

James M. Smallwood was the author of Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction.

Kenneth W. Howell is professor of history at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas, and editor or co-editor of The Seventh Star of the Confederacy, Still the Arena of Civil War, and Single Star of the West.

Carol C. Taylor is an independent historian living in Greenville, Texas.