Paul
Escott Reynolds
Professor Dean of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest University
Paul
Escott received his BA degree, cum laude, from Harvard College
and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Duke University.
He is a Reynolds professor of history and dean of the college
at Wake Forest University. Among his publications are the
following books: After Secession: Jefferson Davis and
the Failure of Confederate Nationalism; Slavery Remembered:
A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives; Many
Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina,
1850-1900; and (as co-author) A History of African
Americans in North Carolina.
William
R Trotter Author
Born
and raised in Charlotte, NC, William Trotter is a graduate
of Davidson College. He began freelance writing full-time
in 1980, and in 1987 became senior writer for Imagine Media.
His monthly column on war and strategy games, "The Desktop
General" (in PC Gamer Magazine) has run continuously
for 12 years internationally. Trotter's journalistic work
has appeared in more than 30 magazines and newspapers. Trotter's
concept for The Sands of Pride grew out of the research
he did for his highly successful nonfiction trilogy, The
Civil War in North Carolina. Trotter's other published
works include A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40
(winner of the 1992 Fkinlandia Foundation's Arts and Letters
Award), Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos,
and two previous novels, Honeysuckle and Winter
Fire.
William
Harris Professor
of History,
North Carolina State University (chair, 1990-1995)
William
Harris is the author of eight books and numerous articles
and essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction period, including
The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction
in Mississippi; William Woods Holden: Firebrand of
North Carolina Politics; and With Charity for All:
Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. The Holden
biography won the Jefferson Davis Award in 1988 for the best
book on Confederate history and the Mayflower Cup for the
best work of nonfiction by a North Carolinian in that year.
With Charity for All received the 1998 Lincoln Prize,
Second Place, awarded annually by the Lincoln Soldiers Institute
of Gettyburg College for "the finest scholarly work in
English" on the Civil War era. Most of his current research
and writing is on Lincoln during the Civil War, and his most
recent project is The Forge of Greatness: The Last Months
of the Life of Abraham Lincoln.
David
Cecelski Author/Scholar
David
's most recent book, The Waterman's Song, is the first
major study of slavery in the maritime South. The Waterman's
Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen,
pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen and other laborers who,
from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast
inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the
upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Cecelski's research proved
that black maritime laborers played an essential role in local
abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery
activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom
during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they
carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime
districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom
of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Freddie
L. Parker Professor/Chair
of History Dept. NCCU
Freddie
Parker is currently Professor and Chair of the History Department
at North Carolina Central University. He has a B.A. in History
from North Carolina Central University, an M.A. from North
Carolina Central University, and a Ph.D. from The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored two books
on slavery in North Carolina, Running for Freedom: Slave
Runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840 and Stealing
a Little Freedom: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in North
Carolina, 1791-1840. He has written book reviews for
the North Carolina Historical Review, and received
the Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award (1995).
Dorothy
Spruill Redford Author/Historian
Dorothy
Spruill Redford spent her early years in Queens, New York,
and received her college training at Queens College. By 1986,
Redford had researched for ten years to connect her life with
those of her enslaved ancestors held on Somerset Place plantation
in Creswell, North Carolina. Her research culminated in the
first Somerset Homecoming, a celebration of African-American
culture and heritage attended by descendants of the enslaved
community and descendants of the plantation's owners at Somerset
Place. The account of her family history and the homecoming
entitled Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage
is available through the University of North Carolina
Press. Since 1987, Redford has managed Somerset Place, a
North Carolina State Historic Site. According to Duke historian
Peter H. Wood, under Dorothy Redford's direction "one of the
largest antebellum plantations in North Carolina is now a
remarkable site used to educate citizens about the social
history of African Americans and whites in our state." Somerset
Place has effectively changed the interpretive paradigm and
is providing a rewarding and successful experience for its
visitors."
Laura
Edwards Associate Professor, Duke University
Laura
Edwards is associate professor in the History Department at
Duke University. She is the author of Gendered Strife and
Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997)
and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women
in the Civil War Era (2000) and has authored prize-winning
articles on law, women, and the nineteenth century South.
She has held fellowships from the NEH, the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History, the Newberry Library, and UCLA's
American Center for Politics and Public Policy.
Paul
Escott received his BA degree, cum laude, from Harvard College
and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Duke University.
He is a Reynolds professor of history and dean of the college
at Wake Forest University. Among his publications are the
following books: After Secession: Jefferson Davis and
the Failure of Confederate Nationalism; Slavery Remembered:
A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives; Many
Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina,
1850-1900; and (as co-author) A History of African
Americans in North Carolina.
Born
and raised in Charlotte, NC, William Trotter is a graduate
of Davidson College. He began freelance writing full-time
in 1980, and in 1987 became senior writer for Imagine Media.
His monthly column on war and strategy games, "The Desktop
General" (in PC Gamer Magazine) has run continuously
for 12 years internationally. Trotter's journalistic work
has appeared in more than 30 magazines and newspapers. Trotter's
concept for The Sands of Pride grew out of the research
he did for his highly successful nonfiction trilogy, The
Civil War in North Carolina. Trotter's other published
works include A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40
(winner of the 1992 Fkinlandia Foundation's Arts and Letters
Award), Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos,
and two previous novels, Honeysuckle and Winter
Fire.
William
Harris is the author of eight books and numerous articles
and essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction period, including
The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction
in Mississippi; William Woods Holden: Firebrand of
North Carolina Politics; and With Charity for All:
Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. The Holden
biography won the Jefferson Davis Award in 1988 for the best
book on Confederate history and the Mayflower Cup for the
best work of nonfiction by a North Carolinian in that year.
With Charity for All received the 1998 Lincoln Prize,
Second Place, awarded annually by the Lincoln Soldiers Institute
of Gettyburg College for "the finest scholarly work in
English" on the Civil War era. Most of his current research
and writing is on Lincoln during the Civil War, and his most
recent project is The Forge of Greatness: The Last Months
of the Life of Abraham Lincoln.
David
's most recent book, The Waterman's Song, is the first
major study of slavery in the maritime South. The Waterman's
Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen,
pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen and other laborers who,
from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast
inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the
upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Cecelski's research proved
that black maritime laborers played an essential role in local
abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery
activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom
during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they
carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime
districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom
of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 
Freddie
Parker is currently Professor and Chair of the History Department
at North Carolina Central University. He has a B.A. in History
from North Carolina Central University, an M.A. from North
Carolina Central University, and a Ph.D. from The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored two books
on slavery in North Carolina, Running for Freedom: Slave
Runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840 and Stealing
a Little Freedom: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in North
Carolina, 1791-1840. He has written book reviews for
the North Carolina Historical Review, and received
the Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award (1995).
Dorothy
Spruill Redford spent her early years in Queens, New York,
and received her college training at Queens College. By 1986,
Redford had researched for ten years to connect her life with
those of her enslaved ancestors held on Somerset Place plantation
in Creswell, North Carolina. Her research culminated in the
first Somerset Homecoming, a celebration of African-American
culture and heritage attended by descendants of the enslaved
community and descendants of the plantation's owners at Somerset
Place. The account of her family history and the homecoming
entitled Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage
is available through the University of North Carolina
Press. Since 1987, Redford has managed Somerset Place, a
North Carolina State Historic Site. According to Duke historian
Peter H. Wood, under Dorothy Redford's direction "one of the
largest antebellum plantations in North Carolina is now a
remarkable site used to educate citizens about the social
history of African Americans and whites in our state." Somerset
Place has effectively changed the interpretive paradigm and
is providing a rewarding and successful experience for its
visitors." 
Laura
Edwards is associate professor in the History Department at
Duke University. She is the author of Gendered Strife and
Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997)
and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women
in the Civil War Era (2000) and has authored prize-winning
articles on law, women, and the nineteenth century South.
She has held fellowships from the NEH, the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History, the Newberry Library, and UCLA's
American Center for Politics and Public Policy.