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Freedoms Gained and Lost

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A timely book looking back at a period that reshaped America and the world

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About Adam H. Domby

Adam H. Domby is an associate professor of history at Auburn University. He is the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020). He co-edited Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). In 2018 he won the John T. Hubble Prize for the best article in Civil War History.

Simon Lewis

Simon Lewis has been teaching African and Third World Literature at the College of Charleston since 1996. A former long-time director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) program at the College, Dr. Lewis is the coeditor of three volumes of essays in USC Press’s Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World series: The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism, Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans, and The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War. He is also the author of two monographs on African literature and numerous refereed articles primarily on South African writers. He was recognized in 2021 with a Governor’s Award in the Humanities from South Carolina.

Bruce E. Baker

Bruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (2007) and coeditor of After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South (2013); he has also written several other books and articles covering Reconstruction, labor history, lynching, and the cotton trade.

Adam H. Domby

Adam H. Domby is an associate professor of history at Auburn University. He is the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020). He co-edited Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). In 2018 he won the John T. Hubble Prize for the best article in Civil War History.

Don H. Doyle

Don H. Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is known for his numerous books, including Faulkner’s County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha and The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. He is currently working on an international history of Reconstruction.

Brian K. Fennessy

Brian K. Fennessy received his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now a visiting assistant professor at the University of Richmond. His current project is on former Confederates who joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction.

Michael Fitzgerald

Michael W. Fitzgerald is Professor of History at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Union League Movement in the Deep South, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, Splendid Failure, and, most recently, Reconstruction in Alabama (2017).

Hilary N. Green

Hilary N. Green is James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Department, Davidson College. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), as well as numerous essays and articles. She is currently at work on two projects: a book manuscript examining how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War, and a digital humanities project on Black Civil War memory.

Ethan Kytle

Ethan J. Kytle is Professor of History at California State University, Fresno. His latest book, coauthored with Blain Roberts, is Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (2018). Dr. Kytle’s work has also appeared in the Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth-Century History, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Oxford American.

Simon Lewis

Simon Lewis has been teaching African and Third World Literature at the College of Charleston since 1996. A former long-time director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) program at the College, Dr. Lewis is the coeditor of three volumes of essays in USC Press’s Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World series: The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism, Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans, and The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War. He is also the author of two monographs on African literature and numerous refereed articles primarily on South African writers. He was recognized in 2021 with a Governor’s Award in the Humanities from South Carolina.

Holly Pinheiro

Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. is Assistant Professor of African American history in the History Department at Furman University. He has published articles in Jeronimo Zurita and the Journal of American Nineteenth-Century History. He is currently finalizing his monograph The Families’ Civil War: Northern African American Soldiers and The Fight for Racial Justice.

Sergio Pinto-Handler

Sergio Pinto-Handler holds a PhD in Latin American History from Stony Brook University. His research examines abolitionism in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at St. Olaf College.

Shannon Smith

Shannon M. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota, where she teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction in American culture, gender and race in US history, and protest and rebellion. She holds a PhD from Indiana University and a master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Felicity Turner

Felicity Turner is currently Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University; she received her PhD in history from Duke University in 2010. Her research has been supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington; the University of Wisconsin Law School; and the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Samuel Watts

Samuel Watts received his Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne, researching and writing about Black experiences of Reconstruction in the urban Deep South. He is the managing editor of ANZASA Online, writes for the Australian Book Review, and was recently awarded the Wyselaskie Scholarship for History award.

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