Alan Brinkley (1949-2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He served as university provost at Columbia from 2003 to 2009. He authored works, such as Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; American History: Connecting with the Past; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; Liberalism and Its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. He served as board chair of the National Humanities Center, board chair of the Century Foundation, and was a trustee of Oxford University Press. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998-1999 he was the Harmsworth Professor of History at Oxford University, and in 2011-2012 the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard.
John M. Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Alabama, where he also serves as Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, editor of American First Hand, editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture, and co-editor of Dixie Great War: World War I and the American South. He is a series editor for Religion and Culture at the University of Alabama Press. In 2020, Professor Giggie taught the first Black History course, offered daily for an entire year, at an Alabama public school. He is co-founder of the West Side Scholars Academy, a middle school summer enrichment program that focuses on civil rights history. He is managing a research study of lynching in Alabama, and preparing a book on civil rights protests in West Alabama. He was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University.
Andrew J. Huebner is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Love and Death in the Great War and The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era. He is co-editor of Dixie’s Great War, as well as two other forthcoming edited volumes about war and society in the United States. In 2017, he was named an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University.
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