Contested Loyalty

Robert M. Sandow is an associate professor of history at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians (Fordham) and has presented numerous articles and conference papers. His recent work addresses issues of political dissent and rural protest on the northern home front.

Robert M. Sandow is an associate professor of history at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians (Fordham University Press, 2009) and has presented numerous articles and conference papers. His recent work addresses issues of political dissent and rural protest on the northern home front.

Judith Giesberg is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She is the author of the recent title Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality (2017).
She is also the editor of Th e Journal of the Civil War Era.

Melinda Lawson is Senior Lecturer and Director of Public History at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is the author of Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (2002.) She has published chapters in An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Homefront (2002) and Contested Democracy: Freedom,
Race, and Power in American History (2007), and articles in Civil War History and The Journal of the Civil War Era.

Thaddeus M. Romansky completed his doctorate in History in 2015 at Texas A&M University. He is currently the director of a Catholic radio network in College Station, Texas and has taught courses on U.S. History and African American History at Texas A&M and
Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.