Christian G. Samito, Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era.

Orville Vernon Burton, editor, The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence.

Guy R. Hasegawa, co-editor (with James M. Schmidt), Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine.

Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War.

Joan Waugh, U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth.

Christian Keller, US Army Command and Staff College, author of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory.

Caroline E. Janney, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.

Daniel W. Stowell, Director and Editor of the "Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project.)

Ted Alexander is the Chief Historian at Antietam National Battlefield. He is the author, editor and contributor to seven books about Antietam and other aspects of the Civil War. He has also written more than 200 articles and book reviews for publications such as Civil War Times Illustrated, Blue and Gray Magazine, Maryland Historical Magazine and The Washington Times. He lectures frequently for organizations such The Civil War Preservation Trust, Johns Hopkins University's Odyssey Program and The Smithsonian Associates.

George S. Burkhardt, Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War.