William Harris Bragg Editor & Author

C. Mildred Thompson (1881–1975) wrote her classic Reconstruction in Georgia (1915) while embarked on a forty-year academic career at Vassar College, as both professor and dean. A New Deal Democrat and feminist, she then returned to her native Georgia and remained active in education and politics until her death.

William Harris Bragg taught history at Georgia College in Milledgeville for many years before retiring as its director of the Center for Georgia Studies. He has received the Georgia Historical Society’s E. Merton Coulter Award for Excellence in the Writing of Georgia History, as well as the Society’s Presidential Citation for Distinguished Contributions to Georgia History. Among his previous publications are Joe Brown’s Army: The Georgia State Line, 1862–1865 and Griswoldville.