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MARLA ANZALONE is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Duquesne University. Her dissertation, which received the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, examines how nurse, surgeon, and soldier writings shape the collective imagined experience of the Civil War, the wounded soldier, and the hospital space.

RHAE LYNN BARNES is assistant professor at Princeton University and Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She is the author of the forthcoming Darkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface (2024). She served as Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s executive advisor for the award-winning documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War.

JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (2021). His other books include Sick from Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012) and Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (2016).

MATTHEW FOX-AMATO is associate professor of history at the University of Idaho. He is the author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (2019), runner-up for the Huntington Library’s 2021 Shapiro Book Prize, and finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award.

BARBARA A. GANNON is associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (2011).

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, have each received Emmy nominations. His latest history series for PBS is Making Black America: Through the Grapevine.

RASHAUNA JOHNSON teaches history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (2016), awarded the 2016 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana History and the 2018 H. L. Mitchell Award by the Southern Historical Association for the best book on the Southern working class.

KRISTEN T. OERTEL is the Mary F. Barnard Professor of nineteenth-century American history at the University of Tulsa. She is the author of three books, Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre–Civil War Kansas (2009), Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood (2010), and Harriet Tubman: Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century (2016).

NII AYIKWEI PARKES is a Ghanaian writer, editor, and publisher. He is primarily known for the acclaimed hybrid novel Tail of the Blue Bird, which was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize, winner of France’s Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon, and named Lire magazine’s Best First Foreign Book of the Year. He is a nonresident fellow of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

ANGELA M. RIOTTO is assistant professor of military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College who specializes in the American Civil War era, prisoners of war, memory studies, and gender studies.

FAITH SMITH teaches in the English department and chairs African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (2023).

JOHN STAUFFER is the Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of twenty books and more than a hundred articles, including The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (cowinner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2001), and The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On (with...