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William H Pease Editor & Author

William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease are professors emeriti at the University of Maine and associates in history at the College of Charleston. They are the authors or editors of ten books, including The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1823-1843. They also published Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston; James Louis Petigru: Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter; and A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War. The Peases divide their time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Harborside, Maine.