David A. Welker, "African American Intelligence Contributions During the American Civil War," in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union

Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Dr. Robert D. Hicks,  Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War

Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

William B. Styple, author of Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

Nigel Hamilton, author of Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, authors of The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.