Melinda LawsonMelinda Lawson is Senior Lecturer and Director of Public History at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is the author of Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (2002.) She has published chapters in n Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Homefront (2002) and Contested Democracy: Freedom,
Race, and Power in American History (2007), and articles in Civil War History and The Journal of the Civil War Era. Read More Read Less