Lisa Tendrich Frank Editor & Author

Lisa Tendrich Frank is an award-winning historian, editor, and writer on issues related to American women, the nineteenth century, and the American Civil War. She is the co-editor of Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Florida, 2011) and the editor of The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2015) and American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields (ABC-CLIO, 2012).

Leeann Whites is a professor emerita of history at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender (Georgia, 2000) and Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and coeditor of Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence (Missouri, 2004).

Stephen Berry is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War; All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South, and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848–1860 (Georgia).

Angela Esco Elder is the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the antebellum and Civil War era, with an emphasis on gender, emotion, family, and trauma in the American South.

Brian Craig Miller is an associate professor of history at Emporia State University. He is the forthcoming editor of the journal Civil War History and the author of John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory and The American Memory: Americans and Their History to 1877.