• Contributors

Edward Valentin Jr. received his BS in history from the US Military Academy and his PhD at Rice University. He is currently a museum curator at the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC.

Michael E. Woods is associate professor of history and director/editor of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (2016) and Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (2014), which won the Southern Historical Association’s James A. Rawley Award in 2015.

• 贡献者

小爱德华·瓦伦丁（Edward Valentin Jr.）在美国军事学院获得历史学士学位，并在莱斯大学（Rice University）获得博士学位。他目前是位于华盛顿特区的美国海军国家博物馆的博物馆馆长。

迈克尔·伍兹（Michael E. Woods）是诺克斯维尔田纳西大学的历史学副教授和安德鲁·杰克逊（Andrew Jackson）论文的主任/编辑。他是《流血的堪萨斯州：奴隶制，局部主义和密苏里-堪萨斯边境的内战》（2016年）和《美国前战场上的情感与局部冲突》（2014年）的作者，该小说获得了美国南方历史协会的詹姆士·A·罗利奖2015年。